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Agriculture
Being a farmer in a vast and diverse country like India has led them to face various challenges in their daily lives. Yes, Farmers in our country are economically weaker sections of the society because of many reasons. The reasons are crop failure, environmental changes such as floods and droughts,Read more
Being a farmer in a vast and diverse country like India has led them to face various challenges in their daily lives. Yes, Farmers in our country are economically weaker sections of the society because of many reasons. The reasons are crop failure, environmental changes such as floods and droughts, rising debts, low produce, high cost of chemicals and seeds and also in-adequacy of MSP (Minimum Support Price) provided to farmers. Currently farmers are not able to generate a stable source of earning or income from their profession. Condition of a farmer is getting devastated day-by-day. Another major reason is that many of them are unemployed during off season when there is no harvesting or any such agricultural activity. They tend to have more financial burden during that time. Also, lack of modern equipments and techniques, transportation facility and storage facility in farming has led to reduction in yield and subsequently low income for the farmer. Due to all this, farmers in our country get distressed and commit suicide. Suicide rate among farmers has constantly been rising over the past few years. When a crop fails they are not able to repay the loans causing many hardships like starvation, losing part of their land to the moneylender and mental pressure too. We can help them to get rid of all this by the following ways:-