We are primarily an agrarian society.
Unless farm sector is improved india has no future.
There is a steady fall in rural income of both farmers with and the landless.
Unless their lot is improved with huge subsidies of fertiliser,power and water they do not have a future.
True Govt gives MSP for their produce and also crop insurance, Yet they are in misery..
They are in grip of micro finance companies if not rural money lenders.
Policy initiatives like MNREGA had not been encouraged for sometime which increased their woes.
Add to it there have been no attempts at cooperative farming like china .nor there is effficient cooperative
marketing of their produce.
Most are unable to hold on to their produce to give to govt agencies for fair price and they sell off to middle
men who make profits.
Since crops are seasonal, the rural folk have idle months .
Many drift to cities and do not return .
It is beneficial to be urban poor than being rural farmer.
One finds biharis, jharkand people all over south cities, mostly unskilled in construction industry , brick kilns.
Local citizens of southern cities are in receipt of so many social benefits given by govt that they prefer to
have a good life and leaving undesirable unskilled labour intensive job to rural folk from north.
