Recently i saw an advertisement which was promoted by Ministry of Agriculture stating that and showing that in last few years by the efforts of Ministry the production of agri. products have rised and we produced aprox. more then 2 cr tons of grains in this country. It means now we should not have any problem as far as grains and food is concern. Am i rite ? But real picture is total opposite to it. Still people are dieing cause of hunger in this country. And if there is so much of production or bumper production of grains then why the hell prices are not going down on the contrary its going up an up day by day. Again why people still straving of the food if there is such a bumper production ? why ministry is not bother to look in to this matter. what is happening exactly is there anybody serious about this ? i dont think so otherwise after having such bumper production country should not have any problem atall. It means there are loopholes in the system itself . and overall corruption is playing a major roll as a villain and nobody is bother about that. If there is a bumper production then where the hell it has gone? and when govt is having the figures of the production then they must be having the details abt where it has gone too. Again how much of it has been purchased by the govt. and what happend to that stock ? i have learned that govt is not serious about storing of the food grains because of which every year lacs of tons of grains getting spoiled and have to be thrown it away as a wastage. Imagine its the same country where majority of the people are not getting enough food and at the same time lacs of tons of grains are getting wasted cause of the loopholes in the system.
The moral of the story is minister of agriculture should not take credit of such issues but if he really have the heart to see the country on the top of the world he should try and see that each citizen of this royal country should get enough food to survive at affordable price.
Am i rite ?
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Nice article about the food grain production and the existing starvation of people in India.
I think the lack of the storage infrastructure in the country is the main disadvantage over the advantage of yield of bumper agri products of the food.
had read before sometime that FCI had to destroy lacs of ton of the grains as they got spoilt in their storage unit. Also i suppose the other main issue is the logistics as the country is geographycally vast and the logistics are not that well equipped.
just in feb when was passing by dehgaam saw the queues of hundreds of tractors along with farmer lined up for storing the potatoes. due to the lack of the vision and lack of proper guidance from the goverment machinery the farmer just have a simple logic that the crop which gave high earning last year will give even higher earning this year so all the farmr in the region will grow same crop hence there is excess in the area and logistics are poor and expensive and the storage facility is not as per required hence they either have to sell at low price or let it get spoilt, and remember 60%of the farmer are poor who cannot afford all the extra expenses.
As said when passing by the potato tractor one farmer was offering to sell to us at Rs 20 for 20 kg if am buying 20 kg so imagine their desperation.
the gram sevak which is appointed by the govt to guide the farmers is himself so very illiterate about farming that farmers feel superior to him hence he is of no use.
see the farmers in punjab who are using modern technology and are well to do are prosperous
so wake up agri dept and set up a special dvison where the farmers are guided well and there is a ample storage facilities.It is shame that india known as agricultural country has to import food and grain from other country
Cannot see any silver lining in this dark sky except maybe some savioour like DR mohamed yunus of bangladesh takes an initiative in this direction and be a true guide of farmers in this issue
these are my views based on the interaction with the farmers several times in various regions one may differ on it.
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