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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | A New Agrarian Season, but an Old and Futile Question for the Indian Farmer -Jaideep Hardikar

A New Agrarian Season, but an Old and Futile Question for the Indian Farmer -Jaideep Hardikar

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published Published on Jun 3, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 3, 2017
-TheWire.in

Farmers are once again wondering which crop will fetch them guaranteed good returns.

Nagpur:
What do you grow on your farm in the coming season that will fetch you good returns?

This is a question millions of peasant farmers, particularly those with small holdings and no protective irrigation, are likely to ask themselves this month, possibly with no answers.

They’ll go back to what they have been growing on their fields thus far, year after year, hoping for the best, knowing it could be worse.

As the 2017-18 agrarian season sets itself on the beleaguered, indebted, sullied and fatigued farming communities across the country, there is much to learn and reflect from the season just gone by.

First, that bumper production does not always mean profits. As the tomato, onion, red gram or paddy-wheat-cotton farmers would tell you. Or those growing oranges or sweet limes.

Second, the monsoon, even when bountiful, does not necessarily bring relief for the peasantry.

Third, a drought is not just a water-food-productivity crisis. It exists even when there’s an abundance. And today, it is something of an inseparable part of an unequal, uncertain world.

To deviate a bit from the make-belief world of those currently in power and their army of trolls:

The new year saw job cuts across the blue chip, banking and media industries – they all woke up to their big-fat-crowded work spaces and suddenly realised that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘masterstroke’ demonetisation move was a beautiful reason to cut some flab on that swollen tummy, no matter that the flab thrown into the dustbin are breathing, living men and women. Then, April saw the CEOs who helped those companies cut that unwanted fat get steady pay hikes. Like the return gift at a birthday party. May again brought news that thousands of contractual employees in the IT world would get pink slips – such is the retrenchment fury that #pinksliprevolution is now trending on Twitter as a popular hashtag.

Those who got the seventh pay scale as a privilege are steering the commodity prices in the markets to higher slabs. The food and luxury items are dearer, as the new pay scales flow out of the closet and into the markets to push the demand. Between, jobs – for daily wagers or degree holders – are a mirage.

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TheWire.in, 2 June, 2017, https://thewire.in/142378/india-farmer-agrarian-crisis-drought-monsoon/


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