Problems of Indian farmers and comparison of condition of Indian farmer with other developed country

1. Presented By:
Vinkal Pathak
Vishwanath Iyer
Vaidehi Patel
Dipali Champanery
Hetvi Vora
Kavisha
Ashutosh Vyas

2. Introduction of agriculture sector in India
 India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits and vegetables, milk,
major spices, select fibrous crops.
 India is the world's second or third largest producer of several dry fruits,
agriculture-based textile raw materials, pulses, coconut, sugarcane and
numerous vegetables
 India ranked in the world's five largest producers of over 80% of agricultural
produce items, including many cash crops such as coffee and cotton, in 2010.
 In fiscal year ending June 2011India accomplished an all-time record production
of 85.9 million tonnes of wheat, a 6.4% increase from a year earlier.
 The per capita supply of rice every year in India is now higher than the per capita
consumption of rice

3.  India is seventh largest agricultural exporter worldwide, and the sixth largest net
exporter; India is the fastest growing exporter of agricultural products over a 10-
year period
 India exported around 2 million metric tonnes of wheat and 2.1 million metric
tonnes of rice in 2011 to Africa, Nepal, Bangladesh and other regions around the
world.

4. History of Indian agriculture sector
 Some archaeologists believe that rice was a domesticated crop along the banks of
the river Ganges in the sixth millennium BC.
 Other crops cultivated in India 3000 to 6000 years ago, include sesame, linseed,
safflower, mustards, castor, mung bean, horse gram, pigeonpea, grass pea
(khesari), fenugreek, cotton, jujube, grapes, dates, jackfruit, mango, mulberry, and
black plum.
 According to some scientists agriculture was widespread in the Indian peninsula,
some 5000–3000 years ago, well beyond the fertile plains of the north.

5. Reasons for farmer suicides
 There are many reasons behind farmer suicide which are as follows
 Failure of crops
 Family problems
 Political affiliation
 Debt burden
 Price crash
 Borrowing too much
 illness

6. Failure of crops
24%
Family Problems
21%
Illness
14%
Financial
problem
14%
Government
Issue
6%
Other Problems
21%
Reasons of farmer Suicide

7. Statistical data of farmer suicide
(State wise)

8. Problems of Indian agriculture
 Agriculture is unorganized activity today
 Most farms are small and economically unfeasible
 Middlemen and economic exploitation of farmers
 Government program do not reach small farmers
 High indebtedness and exorbitant interest rates
 Real estate mafia

9. Solutions to the problems
 Multiple crops
 Special agricultural zone
 Need to modernize agriculture
 Educate the farmers
 Clubbing of small fields may help
 Need for meaningful crop insurance policies
 Need for better water management
 Alternate source of income for farmers
 Need for national weather risk management system/disease alert system

10. Indian farmer Vs USA farmer
 Numbers: The total num of Indian farmers are around 120 million. on the other
hand, In the U.S only a small number of people are involved in farming. The total
number of U.S. farmers is only around 2.3 million.
 Sizes: Indian farms are inherited by family members from generation to
generation. the size of an average farm is small in size, around 2.3 hectares. In
contrast, U.S. farm holdings are large, around 250 hectares.
 Qualifications: Most Indian farmers have simply continued their father’s
professions. the average Indian farmer does not have any basic education and is
probably a dropout. in the U.S. American farmers are mostly well educated and
will probably have specialized in some area of agriculture in college.

11.  Farming Methods: Indian farming is very much labour intensive, and most
farmers use traditional methods of farming like plowing with bullocks. U.S.
farming is mostly capital intensive with large-scale use of heavy and advanced
machinery. Indian farming is still very much dependent on the weather and,
consequently, is able to grow only two to three crops in a year.
 On the other hand, U.S. farms are able to grow multiple crops in one year such as
soybeans, beet root, in addition to wheat, etc. U.S. farmers take advantage of
scientific and technological innovations and facilities to enhance their production
levels.
 Indian farming is heavily dependent on the vagaries of the monsoon rainfall. In
contrast, U.S. farming uses advanced systems of irrigation methods, which allow
all-year-round production.
 Output: A rough comparison between the two farmlands will show that U.S.
farms have a higher yield per hectare than Indian farms. in rice, it is 7.8 tones to
Indian’s 3 tones; in corn, it is 8.6 tones to Indian’s 1.8 tones
 in soybeans, it is 2.8 tones to Indian’s 1.1 tons; and in cotton lint, it is 647 Kg to
Indian’s 220 Kg. Similarly, in the U.S., the cow milk yield is three times that of
the Indian yield.

12. Awareness
 We visited at APMC market and meet the farmers and after understanding their
problems we make a list of government policies and help line numbers and
distribute among the farmers and we explain them different policies of
government which formulated for their benefits. We try to motivate them also and
try to build a positive approach among them.

13. Learning
 Farmers mainly facing problems regarding finance, unavailability of resources
such as water, electricity, seeds, pesticides and middle men due to these and many
other problems farmers doing suicide.
 Its not all about just discussing problems but about solutions also.
 To solve the problems regarding farmer suicide government should create a better
and different market for farmers where there is no middle men.
 If industry can get 24 hours electricity supply then farmer should get at least 12
hours electricity.
 Government should create new policies regularly for farmers.
 As a responsible citizen of country we have to bought agriculture product from
farmers without any kind of bargaining.
 Government should take decisions regarding increase literacy rate among the
farmers so they can be aware about existing and coming up new policy and they
can take benefits and advantages of that policy.

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16. Thank You..