Dear Shri Tomarji,
Government has committed to double the farm income by 2022
The 3 Farm Laws are one of the instruments for achieving this
objective. Unfortunately , these have lead to the current agitation ( - for
which , I am sure you will find a WIN WIN solution )
Irrespective of whatever compromise that Govt manages to
reach with the farmers, I suggest introduction of a Production Linked Incentive
( PLI ) for farm produce , by treating agriculture as an INDUSTRY ( as recently
announced for automobiles / auto components / pharmaceuticals / speciality
steel / telecom and networking / electronics and technology products / white
goods ( ACs & LEDs ) / textiles / solar PV modules / food products /
ACC Battery )
Logic :
As compared with rest of the world ( other countries ),
productivity of major crops in India , is very low , as can be seen in
following table ( source : TOI / 8 Dec 2020 )
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Productivity Comparison for Major Crops ( 2018 figures , in
Kg / Hectare )
|
Crop |
World’s Highest |
World Average |
India ave |
India’s Highest |
|
Rice |
7027 |
4679 |
2638 |
4132 ( Punjab ) |
|
Maize |
11864 |
5924 |
3070 |
7258 ( TN ) |
|
Total Pulses |
1950 |
964 |
757 |
916 ( MP ) |
|
Tur |
1743 |
852 |
729 |
1209 ( Guj ) |
|
Soybean |
3468 |
2791 |
1192 |
1254 ( Raj ) |
|
Groundnut |
4473 |
1611 |
1422 |
2718 ( TN ) |
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Can we come up with a FORMULA ( obviously, to be devised by
Farm Experts ) whereby , a farmer gets a certain ( graded ) INCENTIVE for each
SLAB of “ Increased output “ , over the BASE OUTPUT for the BASE YEAR ?
We already know :
Ø
Each farmer ( by Aadhar / Jan Dhan a/c / Mobile
etc )
Ø
Farm holding ( hectares ) of each farm
Ø
Each farmer’s output ( ave of past 3 years )
We can take help of NaVIC satellite based technology to
automatically compute the yield of each and
every farm , compute the INCENTIVE AMOUNT and automatically transfer ( DBT )
into each farmer’s bank account . Absolutely NO human intervention / no middlemen
( adatiyas ) !
By no means, I am suggesting that this mechanism ( to
incentivize the farmers to raise the productivity and catch-up with the World
), is meant to replace MSP , which should continue as before
Nor would this PLI scheme bind the farmers to sell their produce
within and outside of APMC mandis or prevent the Govt to buy it at MSP
With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com
/ 08 Dec 2020
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