: Appropriate Capital Investment, Price Guarantee Will Ensure Farmers Livelihood, Stop Bloodbath #WorldNEWSAll Everywhere in the world farmers are being exploited. It should be clear to us that globally

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Appropriate Capital Investment, Price Guarantee Will Ensure Farmers Livelihood, Stop Bloodbath #WorldNEWSAll
Everywhere in the world farmers are being exploited. It should be clear to us that globally we follow an economic design that sacrifices agriculture to keep economic reforms viable.
In 2022, India added an important chapter in the agricultural history of India with iconic protest by farmers which led to the repeal of the three farm laws. But the fight and struggle of farmers not yet ended and in 2023 it is yet to be seen how the issue of MSP is going to unfold because the government has done little to address it and is dilly-dallying on the MSP demanded by farmers. Farmers long march to Mumbai and Delhi once again likely to revive MSP demand.
India in 2023 cannot afford to continue to downplay the value and contribution of agriculture in boosting the national economy and ensuring the general welfare of the nation. However, innovative policies are needed to change farmers livelihoods and guarantee both a healthy environment and agriculture that is non-chemical, less use of pesticides and agriculture moving forward towards Agro-Ecological farming system with assured income.
Devinder Sharma, a trained agricultural scientist and noted agriculture expert, in an interview with Mohd Naushad Khan, spoke at length on farmers long march to Mumbai and Delhi, aspiration of farmers, MSP, guaranteed income to farmers, less use of pesticides, from chemical to non-chemical agriculture, Agro-Ecological farming system and climate change.
Why do you think farmers have once again marched to Mumbai and Delhi?
Farmers are marching from Nasik to Mumbai demanding remunerative prices for their produce. This protest march, reminiscent of the long march undertaken by farmers five years back in 2018, this time is an effort to draw attention to the bloodbath on the farm.
With prices of onions crashing in Maharashtra; tomato going abegging in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand; potato prices seeing a drastic fall in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab; cabbage and cauliflower being destroyed by farmers in Punjab and even in Maharashtra, it seems that a ‘farm to flop’ policy programme is underway.
Devinder Sharma
And this is not the first year that a bloodbath is being enacted on the farm. Every few years, a sudden crash in vegetable prices has been witnessed, pointing to a policy paralysis. Over the years, successive governments have failed to properly manage the vegetable surplus that is being produced in one part of the country or the other.
Despite the rhetoric, this huge crisis is because somehow, we have failed to make appropriate capital investment in agriculture and to ensure price guarantee. Farmers Long March to Mumbai, Delhi will revive MSP Demand once again.

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