No, you don't.
Although I am a "highly educated middle class" living in a city, I still am from a farming family. I know what's happening.
The MSP system is simply a conduit for corruption. More money is lost through MSP than anything else. It's no wonder why agriculture grows only at 3% and needs to leech off of the service industry to survive. Without money from the service industry, agriculture would have shut down long ago had it not been for the basic requirement to eat.
The fact is you farmers in Punjab and Haryana are not smart. You have all the funds and infrastructure in the world but still choose to live like sub-Saharan Africans. Stop growing wheat and rice, stop leeching off of the govt through MSP, stop feeding your "commission agents" like its your birthright. Grow cash crops that the world needs and frigging export it. Hell, you guys don't even eat rice, but you wanna grow like parasites depending on it. If my family and the people of my state had even 1% of the opportunities that farmers in Punjab have had for decades, we would have become major food exporters a long time ago. But no, you'd rather sell low cost products to the govt at prices nobody can afford, and then let it all go to waste. All your wheat and rice either feed insects and worms or go into the ocean, don't you know that?
First, you should know that the govt is not a consumer. Second, you should know that the govt buys food for the PDS because people in India are poor. Once poverty is eradicated, how much food do you think the govt will buy? You think they are retarded enough to feed you forever, especially when your state doesn't even vote for the party in power? Third, you should learn that market determines prices. If you want to remain a farmer, you have to change with the times or else you will be left behind.
These are the facts:
Last month, the government had brought down wheat import duty to zero from 10 per cent to boost domestic availability and check price rise.
economictimes.indiatimes.com
Wheat is being imported at a lower price than the domestic market. For instance, Ukraine wheat for delivery at Tuticorin is costing Rs 1,670 per quintal and Australian wheat at Rs 1,740 per quintal. Whereas the grain is being sold in Delhi as high as Rs 2,124 per quintal.
The frigging MSP for wheat in Punjab this year is Rs 1925/quintal. Do you see how retarded Punjab's farming capabilities are when rich countries, even with massive transportation costs, can sell wheat in India at a lower price? American and Australian landowners pay their farm labour salaries above Rs 2L per month and can still manage lower prices. So who the hell wants Punjabi wheat?
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That's Rs 26L per year for a farm labourer in Australia.
Look at the extent govt has to increase duties just to protect our incompetent farmers.
The government plans to sell 10 million tonnes of wheat and 2 million tonnes of rice in the open market.
economictimes.indiatimes.com
The government first imposed 10% import duty on wheat in March 2017. In November the same year, it doubled it to 20%, and then raised it to 30% in May 2018 in order to restrict imports.
Local wheat prices have fallen over 11 percent in 2019 due to ample supply from last year's crop and forecasts of record output.
www.businesstoday.in
Import duties have to increase to 40% just to compete with foreign wheat, and you are telling me you know the ground situation better? Are you kidding me?
Do you know what will happen if people in cities get fed up of subsidising farmers and start growing their own crops? With vertical farming, greenhouses and modern technologies, the yield per acre can become dozens to hundreds of times more. And setting up such industries is extremely cheap. Far more cheaper than importing wheat.
You make fun of the city-dwelling middle classes, but they have done more for farmers than even your own father has done for you. We feed you, subsidise all your expenses, give you cheap credit, waive off all your loans and then buy your crops at exhorbitant prices, only for us to throw it away for cheaper imports. Do you really think even 1 rupee you have earned from farming is your own? Not at all. It's entirely the result of the blood and sweat of the urban middle classes that there is even an agriculture industry. You can call yourself a farmer simply because someone else is sacrificing his hard work for you to be one. The only thing that the middle class has not done for farmers is wash their *censored*, but the current protesters are now demanding even that.
APMC and MSP have no place for the future of farming in India. Clinging to it is simply forcing yourself to a deadend and it's unlikely the middle class 10 years down the line, which will have grown to greater numbers than the farming community by then thereby forming a more important votebank, will allow further subsidising of agriculture. You will simply get abandoned if you do not keep up.
! And now a specially a RSS guy criticising JATT Sikhs and Sikhs in general is beyond me. RSS promoted manuvadis and brahmins, which promoted castism, who has all Brahman heads except one high cast Rajput is teaching me about castism in Sikhs (I never know till about the cast background of Akaltakhat jathedar till date, similarly I never know the cast of RSS Head till recently, after the farmer agitation started). SGPC is controlled by SAD Badal faction a close aly of RSS for a long time. I am sure you can enlight us that RSS would have conveyed its reservations regarding plight of non Jatt Sikhs in Punjab and regarding non Jatt Sikh Jathedar!
