Study Material For Agriculture and allied Sectors

Farm laws are the most burning issue not in India but in the whole world. But most of us are not sure what actually is the problem and who are the stakeholders. Let's get directly to the point. The Government of India passed farm laws in November 2020. There are 3 laws or we can say acts. One says that there is no limit on holding, second says that farmers can sell their produce anywhere there, is no restriction of district mandis and the last one relates to the contract farming laws in India. But the one thing that is creating furore is the absence of clause related to MSP in the laws. The situation is that farmers don't have bargaining power because their produce is very perishable and thus they have to sell their produce within one week of harvest, in case of wheat-rice especially. Thus, MSP was serving as a as an anchor for farmers to have a selling price which is covering the cost of cultivation. But with the scrapping of this MSP, the farmers have even lost that last elem...

The game Chakraview is based on the problems faced by a farmer that ultimately leads to the farmer suicide. This game is developed by Tata Institute of Social Sciences. In this game, you are given a random family with random family members. All the family members have different needs, and this makes a total of family needs which the farmer must pay from the harvest earned money. There are several factors which play a role in this. Sometimes there may be a pest attack or may be a drought. Thus, the income may reduce so the farmer takes loan. The loan is calculated as per acre of land. Also, farmer may or may not have unmarried daughters and thus their marriage also costs. Additionally, there may be cost of sickness. If the loan exceeds the 35000 per acre mark, then the farmer suicides and the game ends. Let’s see how many years one can try to be in a game. This game teaches us the agrarian distress. How farmers that are completely dependent on the natural conditions suffers most with th...