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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | True victims of farm crisis -Kota Neelima

True victims of farm crisis -Kota Neelima

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published Published on Jan 6, 2018   modified Modified on Jan 6, 2018
-DNA

The impact of drought on women farmers remains unregistered by the state, which considers them only in their non-farm roles in rural households and village communities. The new drought relief manual is no different as it merely provides an alibi for the state to abdicate its responsibility towards farm crises and utilises gender to reduce its intervention in agriculture by addressing only one half of the population.

Drought is never too far in a country like India, which has an inadequate irrigation system and low public investment in agriculture. About half of all the cropped area in the country is rain-fed and supports almost 40 percent of the population. In 2015-16, over 266 districts in 11 states reported drought conditions and sought relief. Given the scale of the crisis, the role of the state in saving the lives of farmers and their families across the country cannot be understated. It is necessary, therefore, to examine factors that deliberately minimise this important responsibility of the state, especially towards women farmers.

The new Manual for Drought Management by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, used for the first time this year to identify affected areas in Maharashtra, demonstrated how the assessment of severity of drought would now be more stringent and difficult to prove. In effect, instead of measures to prevent the occurrence of drought, the state appears to have taken steps to prevent identification of drought itself. Such approach has a negative multiplier effect on women farmers, habitually neglected by state and society. This view is only reinforced in the manual’s approach to ‘fix’ women in pre-decided categories based on their social and patriarchal roles.

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DNA, 5 January, 2018, http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-true-victims-of-farm-crisis-2572927


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