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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Why are Madhya Pradesh farmers protesting despite record growth? -Dipti Jain

Why are Madhya Pradesh farmers protesting despite record growth? -Dipti Jain

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published Published on Jun 16, 2017   modified Modified on Jun 16, 2017
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The earnings of an average farm household in Madhya Pradesh remains among the lowest India, although farmers have gained from rapid agricultural growth

Mumbai:
Protests by farmers across India amid bumper harvests have surprised many. The biggest source of surprise has been one of the hotspots of the protests, Madhya Pradesh (MP), a state that has posted record agricultural growth over the past several years.

A Mint analysis shows that although farmers have gained from the state’s rapid agricultural growth over the past decade, the income of an average farm household in the state still remains among the lowest in the country. Between 2000-01 and 2014-15, agri-GDP (gross domestic product) for MP grew at an annual average rate of 9.4%, second only to Gujarat at 9.5%. This is far higher than the all-India average of 3.3% between 2000-01 and 2012-13.

The rapid growth has boosted farm earnings, or earnings from cultivation, in the state. The average agricultural household in MP has seen monthly farm earnings rising at an annual pace of 15% between 2002-03 and 2012-13 to Rs4,016 as per data from National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) survey of farm households for the respective years. Inflation rose at an annual pace of nearly 8%, and hence real earnings grew at roughly half the pace at which nominal earnings grew. Over the same period, farm earnings of the average Indian farm household rose at an annual pace of 12.3% to Rs3,081.

The data shows despite the boost in farm earnings, average total earnings of agricultural households in MP continue to lag the national average, suggesting that other earnings (from labour, and from non-farm activities) have not risen fast enough. See Chart 2. One caveat here is there is a slight difference in the manner in which agricultural households have been chosen in these two surveys. In the 2002-03 survey, only land-owners were considered in farm households. The latest survey included households with at least one member self-employed in agriculture, and which generated total agricultural produce of Rs3,000 or more over the past year.

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