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Agrarian crisis has been an integral feature of Indian farming, politics and governance for many decades. Political resolutions affirming commitment to the cause of farmers, rosy promises to growers in political manifestos, rhetorical speeches in Parliament and State assemblies have not eased the agrarian distress across the country, excluding a few regions of robust farming.
The Governments thus come and go. Expert Committees are formed and are forgotten with the Government adopting pick-&-choose approach towards implementing their recommendations. Even setting up of two high-profile Commissions, National Commission on Agriculture (NCA) and National Commission on Farmers (NCF, have not changed the ground reality. In the case of these panels too, the Government adopted piece-meal approach. It avoided going the whole hog in developing a total package to improve agricultural and other incomes earned by farmers.
A comprehensive analysis of major factors underlying the crisis and a multi-facet strategy to resolve it has been penned by me in a article contributed to Farmers Forum Magazine June-July 2015 issue. Here is the article. PDF Continue reading