Indian agrarian policies responsible for retardation of agri-growth
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the growth rate of 6.9 per cent in GDP during 2011-12 in comparison to earlier growth rates of over 8 per cent is due to sudden drop in agriculture, forestry and fishing sector growth, and is likely to record a growth 2.5 per cent in its GDP during 2011-12, as against the previous year's growth rate of 7 per cent.
UPA'S AGRAGRIAN policies are responsible for retardation of agri-growth. The Central Statistics Office (CSO), today released the advance estimates, for the financial year 2011-12, and has once again exposed that the major retardation in agriculture growth has not only brought brown Gross Domestic Product (GDP) due to major drop in agriculture growth and has again put a question mark on the on going agriculture policies of UPA.
These policies have claimed more than 2 lakhs farmers who are mostly dry land farmers who were forced to shift for very costly rain sensitive cash crops such as cotton and sugarcane hence the changes in UPA Agriculture policies are a must. Such a move will not only increase growth but will also stop the on going farmers genocide informed Kishore Tiwari of Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti in a press release.
According to the information furnished by the Department of Agriculture, the state of affairs has put question mark on the Agriculture ministry's claim of bumper crop and record production of cotton and sugarcane. UPA government should change it basic policies in agriculture of promoting MNCs in the name of the second green and genetic revolution, Tiwari added.
The latest data has once again proved that Indian agriculture is in doldrums. Lakhs of farmers have committed suicide. Millions supplant their meagre earnings from farming by working in local factories and brick kilns, or by migrating to cities to work as labour. Step into the house of a small and marginal farmer, who now comprise 92% of all farming households in India.
Intensive agriculture has leached nutrients and organic carbon from the soil. When rain-dependent fields account for 60% of India's net sown area, farmers are being forced to grow Bt.cotton and sugar cane substituting jawar, wheat, paddy, pulses and coarse cereals, Tiwari said
"We have been demanding from the UPA government not to ignore India's 70% dry land farmers in the so-called second Green Revolution that was designed to crate monopoly of American MNCs but promoting GM crop which needed plenty of water and chemical inputs. In Vidarbha more than 3 million cotton farmers have been trapped in UPA government's second revolution and it needs drastic change to save innocent farmers and increase GDP in two digits," Tiwari urged.
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