Krishnendu Ray@Deepsealioness Ever since I created an account here have been thinking, if the people in this instance can work towards farmers welfare. We can all decide to spend some time of the day to research methods of farming good practices across the globe and reach out to our farmers. If they can grow profitable crops then we can stem their suicides. Just a small step in the right direction. How can we do it?
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Owais Bukhari@Human_Being @Deepsealioness Why do we need State regulations with their BS licenses & the fucking middlemen, the bloody mafia-politicians nexus controlling the Mandis? Why can't we establish Farmer-markets all across the nation? Start small, at village-levels, gradually moving to towns & cities under a Farmer's Union, end this oppressive monopoly of the Mandi thugs & buy the produce directly from the farmers? What's stopping us? I am curious, just as i am concerned.
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@Human_Being @Deepsealioness Farmers get into debt to buy seeds & fertilizer. For example bag of 450gm of Bt. cotton seeds costs rs.740. A farmer will need 6 bags/acre. GMO seeds are IP of Seed Co.'s,farmers can't save them. They endup buying seeds every year. Seeds should be free & farmers should be able to save them for next year. Farmers can switch to non-gmo seeds through Seed Banks.
@Human_Being @Deepsealioness i think the second problem is that there is lack of knowledge on what to grow &when to grow.Like every other profession,farmers are driven by instinct to get most return on their investment. When cotton is fetching higher price,they grow cotton.When onions are fetching higher price,they grow onions.So,when onions & cotton reaches market,everyone is selling the same thing &it crashes the market and possibly tomatoes is fetching higher price as too few farmers grew it.