Thursday, 26 March 2020

Agriculture Problems During Corona _Indian Economic Development_CBSE_CLASS12






Agriculture problems during Covid-19
Problems and Solution
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With the nationwide lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19, mandis where farmers sell their harvest have also been closed.

In the kharif season, many farmers lost their soyabean and other crops due to excessive rains and were waiting for this rabi harvest to pay back their loans. But now they are now facing a new problem: closed mandis and crashing prices.
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Here are four action points that the Centre and States can consider.

1) Restricted time for mandis

The government can allow mandis to operate amid the lock-down, though with restricted timings. It can consider announcing a time schedule for different villages.


2) Use of eNAM


It’s now time for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship scheme — the electronic National Agriculture Market (eNAM) to claim its place under the sun. While so far only traders could buy on the platform from home, it should now let farmers/FPOs (farmer producer organisations) to sell from the farm gate. Uploading pictures of the commodity should be facilitated on the eNAM app so that farmers can do this from their field/home for buyers to know the quality of the grains/pulses. Once the deal is sealed, traders can be encouraged to make part-payment to the farmer. He can take delivery whenever the regular transport systems start functioning and State borders are opened. 
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3) Publicise eNWRs

Over the last one year, the Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority (WDRA) has brought several Primary Agriculture Co-operative Societies (PACS) and State, Central and private warehouses from across the country under its fold. Some of these are closer to villages and can ensure farmers do not have to spend a lot to get their produce to warehouses.

4) Supporting FPOs

There are at least about 5,000 farmer producer companies registered across the country: these are entities registered under SFAC, NABARD and different State government projects over the last several years. These institutions can be used to aggregate the harvest of farmers which could then be lifted by the Centre/State procurement agencies, suggests Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, CEO, Madhya Bharat Consortium of Farmers Producer Company.
FPOs would need mini trucks to do this as they would be collecting produce from farmers’ fields.
 Source The Business Line
  Date 26/3/2020

5) Avoid distress sales
Farmers can consider putting their stock in the godowns of agriculture co-operative societies nearby. If those are ones accredited with WDRA, then borrowing against the stock will also be easy




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