There is a need to consolidate farms and farmers through cooperatives and Farmers Producer Organizations for producing demand-driven crops for export. Analyse (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
MSP
· Legalising minimum prices means market and/or government must procure these declared agricultural commodities at guaranteed prices.
· When there is a surplus of any commodity, then prices will fall, and there will be no buyer to procure the produce.
· The farmer has to retain the marketable surplus at his own cost and wait till the prices rise to dispose of the produce. This will obviously be very distressing for the farmers.
Under the present arrangement, there is no incentive to conserve groundwater, improve efficiency, and diversify agriculture towards more remunerative commodities.
Export oriented farming
· Abhinav Farmers Club, which is a cooperative of about 850 farmers in Maharashtra. They are mostly small and marginal farmers, who have adopted frontier technologies and directly connect with markets (especially big retailers, e-retailers, hotels, etc).
· They produce flowers, Indian and exotic vegetables, fruits, milk, and dairy products. The members of the club do not rely on MSPs and APMC markets.
· A successful example is of Namakkal district in Tamil Nadu, where nearly three decades ago, a few farmers started poultry farming with 1,000 to 10,000 birds. There are projections that the Namakkal zone is producing about three crores eggs every day. The farmers are rearing improved genotypes.
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