True that all the people cherishing the support of IMF or WTO for farm reforms need to cool it down a bit, because that is a model we do not want to emulate to the t in India here.
But here are some issues that deserve to be better discussed by all:
WTO backed by Western countries have always wanted to dismantle support systems for farmers in developing countries including India while pumping in federal payments to its farmers. Trump gave 46 billion dollars in 2020 alone to US farmers. pic.twitter.com/0V34ZQQq4J
— Ranveer Singh (@ranveersiiingh) February 4, 2021
But the same assumption won't work for India, because we have always had a large workforce in agriculture, agri subsidies have always run high, protection has been the hallmark of agriculture and rural representation in the parliament has always been+
2. This brings us to the another point of providing MSP on all the commodities and the demand side of the issue that we+
The developed nations are able to offer that MSP because the per capita incomes in those countries are high, and people spend less proportion of rising incomes on food. But, for a country like India +
(Source: Prof Ashutosh Varshney's Democracy, Development and the country side)
We will reach the MSP for all stage too, but at the moment that is not a fire we should be playing with. That is for when we are a country with increased per capita incomes and+
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Seen a lot of people aver the following, "but where are the jobs?" in response to someone asserting the need to incentivize the movement of our people from agriculture to industry.
— Sargoon (@SargoonK) January 31, 2021
Well, here's one major part of the big answer: Labour reforms.
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