08/12/2020 - Agriculture | Mainstorming

Harini 4 years

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Cooperative_model_in_Agriculture_compressed.pdf

IAS Parliament 4 years

Need better understanding. Try to apply cooperative model in agricultural sector. Underline key points and include data to support your arguments. Keep Writing.

IAS Parliament 4 years

KEY POINTS

Even today, and earlier, when the consumer in metros pays Rs 50-60 for a kg of tomato or onion, the farmer in the remote part of India hardly receives Rs 6-8/kg of that. The gains of the price rise to the consumer are hardly transferred to the farmers whose woes remain mostly unheard.

Driving success in dairying

· On the other hand, the dairy industry in India is credited with providing up to 80 per cent of the consumer price to dairy farmers compared to merely 25 per cent in Australia.

· India has a come a long way to become world’s largest milk producing country with over 193 million tonnes of milk and from being a net importer of dairy products just a few decades ago.

· The dairy sector has become among the highest gross value sectors in agriculture with higher prices and correspondingly higher value of milk production.

· There is no MSP for milk but dairy farmers in India receive 70-80 per cent of the consumer price under its ingenious institutionalisation of nationwide milk co-operatives who also own the processing plants run by world class technocrats.

Cooperatives in agriculture

· The co-operative structure, although adopted in other sectors of agriculture could hardly achieve the professionalism or efficiency and agricultural marketing remained at the mercy of numerous middlemen across the marketing channel adding to farmers’ woes. This makes a strong case to emulate India’s success in dairy industry in agriculture too.

· There is no short-cut to achieving competitiveness for farm produce at every stage of the value chain such as improving productivity, efficient management of logistics, removing marketing anomalies, keeping agriculture sustainable for the nature and ensuring institutional mechanisms for the farmers to get prices ruminative enough so that farm production remains not only sustainable but an attractive activity.

· The new farm reforms are a landmark step in the direction not only for the welfare of the farmers but also to make Indian agriculture internationally competitive. However, the government needs to be very prudent to balance the conflicting interests of various stakeholders while implementing the new laws.