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Originally Posted by Adux
HKDan,I have no problem with helping the farmers, As a matter of fact I believe the investments made till now, arent even close to being enough. We need irrigation, good marketing pricing, ease of distribution etc etc. Most of the Indian farmers have no economies of scale due to the very small land holdings they have.
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I would say this is the most sensible thing the FM did. Anything like this will reach the recipients directly unlike the supposedly investments the government make through babudom. Even then a lot of farmers do take loans from loan sharks who will not get any respite from this move, but atleast the next time they think about getting loans most of them will defn try the banks.
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Nearing next election year, farmers might just take loans and not pay up, since they expect the government to do something for them. Is that the kind of citizens a country needs?
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That is a very distinct possibility. It is reported that this year the repayments of loan slowed down during the run up to the budget. But the small farmers who are benefited by this scheme normally are law abiding moral people and they tend to be inspired by the system than misusing it.
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We need to give more money to the farmers, help them in investments, through open the field to private company level players.
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You cannot disburse money randomly to farmers through babudom. It never works. If you open up the field to private companies,even though farm production increases, it will not decrease rural poor, infact it will be opposite.
The system is in-efficient now,mostly because of the number of people it involves, when you drastically remove the in-efficiency a lot of those people will have no work, no money and no marketable skills to survive.
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They are currently in bad situation, the farmer suicides are at the highest, I rather the government gave them more money on top of what they owe and give them more time, and simulatenously help them with investments in irragational projects etc etc.
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Again, its not the banks that are driving most people to suicides, its the loan sharks. The govt has to find a way for the farmer to access capital, like the smart card system that they are planning.
The next major investment should be in irrigation and water management systems. About 60% wait for monsoon for their living and when we have a poor rainfall, most of them loose their capital.
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I dont care even if he is Harvard educated bloke, he is still a politican trying to socialist and populist in an election year.
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But you should care, becoz if you dont have a person who can think, you will get some one who'll just stamp their names based on the selective inputs you get babudom.