This Presentation is on a research based where i tried to find out the reason behind the farmers suicide in India and how to tackle out this issue

1. B Y
S A U R A V K I S H O R
Problems of Farmers in India

2. About what I’m gonna discuss
 I aim at finding the problems of our farmers who are considered as the
builders of our nation.
 This short presentation is going to discuss about the government
policies and their impact on the farmer’s life.
 I welcome you all to keep your attentions, Ideas and suggestions to my
presentation.

3. Main Problems Indian Farmers face
 Demonetization draws a question marks front of our farmers ??
 Which impact their business badly as comparing their base prices from
last year to the present scenario
 The rate, already below the government’s minimum support price
(MSP) to low levels now.

4. Main Problems Indian Farmers face
(Cont.)
 As per the Anecdotal reports suggest that this traditional agro-
commercial capital was dealt a body blow by demonetisation.
 One does not know how long it would take for formal finance but the
ultimate sufferer is the farmer, evidence of which is visible in mandi
prices and restive hinterlands.

5. Main Problems Indian Farmers face
(Cont.)
 Farmers do not get the support of society and government to face bad
economy situations.
 India is facing not just a farmers’ crisis today, but also a crisis of
farming families, whose children want non-farm jobs.

6. Main Problems India farmers face
(Cont.)
 A Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) by the National Sample Survey
Organisation (NSSO) several years ago asked over 50,000 farmers across
India: “Do you like farming as a profession?” Forty per cent said they did
not.
 The conclusion found that the resource-poor farmers who disliked
farming owned smaller plots (0.85 ha on average), compared to the 1.4 ha
owned by those who liked farming.
 They had less access to irrigation, credit and crop insurance
 They were less aware of minimum support prices (MSPs) and tended not
to be members of farmers’ groups.
 All these factors matter for raising productivity and lowering risk

7. Main Problems India farmers face
(Cont.)
 Age and gender also affect farmer satisfaction
 since at least 35 per cent of our agricultural work force is female and
likely to grow.
 And it has implications for food security since 75 per cent of rural
women workers, versus 59 per cent of rural male workers, depend
mainly on agriculture for a living (NSSO 2011-12.
 The major category of farmers who disliked farming, those owning
more land, educated above middle school, living in pucca homes — but
unable to fulfil aspirations.

8.  Location also matters. A larger proportion of farmers were
dissatisfied in states with low rainfall, less urbanisation, low per
capita incomes
 An all-India survey by Motilal and Singh (EPW 2010) found that
almost 50 per cent of farmers’ children end up as farmers..
 As most farmers themselves want their children to leave farming and
educate them for exit options
Main Problems India farmers face
(Cont.)

9. Solutions
 Govt should facilitate farming by giving good options for the farmers to
sustain.
 We need a multi-pronged strategy to help both resource-poor farmers
and the educated better-off ones.
 The foremost is irrigation, and a judicious use of groundwater
 Govt must strictly regulate extraction (say, by meters), conserve water
use by techniques like drip irrigation, expand rainwater harvesting, etc.

10. Conclusions
 Unhappy farmers cannot be made happy through loan waivers only
 We need economically viable, not populist, policies for happier farmers,
who would prefer to be in their fields rather than on the streets.
 Inflation eventually isn’t just a matter of the prices of goods and
services going up or down.
 It is also about whose prices are rising and whose are falling — in other
words, winners and losers. In the current deflationary environment, the
farmers are the clear losers.

11. T H A N K Y O U