Suicide Farming - Part II

Dateline New Delhi, February 29, 2008. The Indian Finance Curate Mr. Phosphorus Chidambaram announced the Union Budget in the Indian parliament. The chief high spot of the Budget was the monolithic bundle of complete loan release to little and edge husbandmen with land retentions up to 2 hectares or 5 acres. The bundle involved a immense cost of six hundred thousand million in North American Indian Sri Lanka rupees or around $ 15 billion. The curate promised later that the bundle would be implemented by June, 2008 and all the affected Banks would be compensated by the government.

Obviously, there were widespread celebrations. The opinion confederation political parties including the Agribusiness curate called it a historical step, rightly so, in footing of this never-before measurement and in footing of this never-before sort of money. It was a inspiriting sight with down to Earth husbandmen coming out in big Numbers all over the state dance and bursting crackers and celebrating.

Apart from that there was hardly any appreciation. The mass media called it a populist budget in position of the General Elections owed in 2009. The resistance political parties made a huffy haste to corner as much recognition as possible for this bold step. They said this had been achieved thanks to their relentless agitations presentations and protests.

Cut to Maharashtra, the worst affected state with more than than a thousand husbandmen committing self-destruction every year. Here too, the down to Earth husbandmen celebrated, the opinion and resistance political parties fought amongst themselves for recognition and the mass media speculated about the state assembly elections also owed in 2009. And here too, the farmers' self-destructions continued.

The solution again became a distant dream. Fresh warnings, fresh menaces of agitations frothed from the resistance political parties and the non-governmental action group. 'We desire complete loan release for all farmers!' 'Land retention bounds of lone 2 hectares will profit only a fraction of the affected farmers!' 'More land retentions do not make a husbandman big; he too endures from the same debt problem!' And so on and so forth. Chaos prevailed in the on going assembly session even after such as a 'historic' step.

Reality is confounding enigmatic and always suitable for some. Where make the basic worlds lie? Agricultural experts point out that loan release can only supply a short term alleviation and it may even make a bad wont for some who may indulge in more than gallant adoption expecting releases in the hereafter too. They state the demand of the hr is more than infrastructural investing in the agricultural sector. With the planetary tendency of diminishing tax returns and increasing cost of cultivation such as investings must take at providing irrigation facilities, continued electrical supply, proper fertilisers and seeds. The land must be made more than than productive so that the husbandmen can refund loans without needing waivers.

Then, there is the age old curse word of the middlemen who wipe up up more than 80 percentage of farmers' legitimate earnings. These parasites purchase the farm green goods at soil cheap terms and the concluding marketplace retail terms are in many multiples of the basic. Direct selling installation to husbandmen would change the scenario in an instant. Another equally relentless curse word is poverty. Inability to refund even little personal loans taken for matrimonies or such as societal irresistible impulses thrusts the husbandmen to suicide.

The Indian world necessitates to be dealt with more than realistically. A bold measure have indeed been taken, but it stops just on the fringe not able to perforate the basics.

A committedness is needed. A job should be viewed with a solution intended. Political colors, selfish motivations whatever, one should not seek to do a life horseback riding on a problem.

Well then, what's next?