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Struggle of Farmers in India
By Sharanya Shrivastava 12C 30 6711 DPSG
1.) Back bone of India
India is the land of farming and farmers are the soul of it. Agriculture has been given utmost importance in Vedas because it was one of the main sources of food and livelihood for the people. India has been an agricultural country since the time unknown. The great rishis of our country enlightened the people with the wisdom of farming. In fact, Bhagavad-Gita, Rig Veda and Athrva Veda contains very specific details on agriculture like crop, cultivation, manuring, classification of herbs and different varieties of plants. Bhagavad-Gita, the timeless Vedic wisdom revered throughout India, delineates the concepts of Vedic agriculture. But the question is were their condition always like that of the present scenario? To find out the answer lets read through the context . 2.) Condition during British Rule British came to India with single motive to exploit India in whichever way possible. They looted our national treasury and farmers, and abused them both physically and mentally.
The British regime in India did supply the irrigation works but rarely on the scale required. Community effort and private investment soared as market for irrigation developed. Agricultural prices of some commodities rose to about three times between 1870 and 1920 The British Government imposed such exploitive and partial laws that made farmers miserable. Its their systematic way of making India weak and poor. Their first step was the exploitive zamindary system. The zamindars collected so much tax from farmers leaving them with merely something to survive. They didn’t even share profit proportionately with farmers leaving them miserably and lifetime indebtedness Second and final step that destroyed the farmers were the plantation of indigo. Indigo once planted make the land infertile and deserted because after they are grown nothing can be grown on those land The colonial government or individual plantation owners could force farmers to grow a particular crop but today farmers in India can choose what to grow. 3.) Post-Independence When Britishers left India, they left our country in utmost turmoil. The farmers were hit the worst. Poverty seeping into the farmer, the landless farmers who had nothing left. 75% of the population was engaged in farming yet they were the poorest and worst hit of all times. No development in agriculture sector led to no development and growth for farmers. Even after seven decades of Independence there is not much done to alleviate their condition. Our country has highest numbers of farmer, and yet are the most underprivileged ones. Over the years the government have done to improve agriculture, increase produce and everything done in agriculture sector. But what have they done for farmers to alleviate their condition? The answer is nothing. the government believes that improving the agriculture sector will improve the condition of farmers and it did till some extent of equipping them enough to survive the world. But what about their health care, education, sanitation, proper shelter and many more. Even Today many of the farmers are illiterate and because of this condition they are exploited by the rich. 4.) Green Revolution The Green Revolution was a period when agriculture in India was converted into an industrial system due to the adoption of modern methods and technology, such as the use of high yielding variety (HYV) seeds, tractors, irrigation facilities, pesticides, and fertilizers. Mainly led by agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan in India, this period was part of the larger Green revolution endeavor initiated by Dr. Norman E Borlaug, which leveraged agricultural research and technology to increase agricultural productivity in the developing world.
Though green revolution changed the face of farming but
its effect was limited to few regions. These regions were Punjab, Haryana and parts of western Uttar Pradesh. And even in these regions only the rich and wealthy farmers were able to take the benefits of these. Reason being only rich farmers could afford the expensive these HYV seeds irrigation facilities etc. Over the years the gap between the rich and the poor have widened. Thus we can say green revolution have revolutionised the agriculture sector but failed to improve the life of farmers. 5.) Farmers bills What is Framers Bills? Many of us believed that this bill wasn’t really in favour of the farmers and many without understanding the bill they went on with Bharat Bandh in protest of this bill and to show their support for our farmers which sounded very cool to do for many. But in fact many didn’t realise that how foolish it was . All the protest that we see is all politics to get power in state, playing with emotions and sentiments of the farmers to get vote and power in government . then who remembers to work towards improving the condition of our farmers . Even after more than seven decades of independence of our country and agriculture being the backbone of India yet so little has been done towards the farmers. This fact saddens many of us. When someone tries to do right by them they are interrupted by such kinds of political stunts . Haven’t you all wondered why this protest is mostly done in areas surrounding Delhi and not rest of India ?? Well the answer is it was all the greed for power to grab . Before explaining further let us see what is in farmers bills. The farmer’s bill gave the freedom to farmers to sell their produce directly to the manufacturing companies and final consumers for whatever price they wished for . This was going break the monopoly of the intermediaries who exploited the farmers by buying their produce at very lower price and selling them at higher price in the market . In fear of losing their share in market these people created chaos in the whole India .If you notice carefully the only people protesting against are the farmer the rich and wealthy farmers. No farmers from Bihar Maharashtra assam or any other state is protesting. The reason is false information spread by these people to feed their own political agenda . After more than 70 years finally something big towards farmers is being done and here many political parties are afraid that their career will end as they might not have any agenda to campaign in next election for power. Bibliography https://www.quora.com/ https://www.topperlearning.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/
