The wide gap between the market prices of agricultural commodities and the prices of farmers

The Prime Minister announced in February 2 that India will double the income of farmers in the country when India completes 3 years of its independence in the year. On February 5, this announcement is being completed in four years. Time will tell, but at present, there seems to be a huge increase in farmers' income Is not

If that were the case, there would not have been talk and demands of taking steps to forgive farmers' loans in the recent rains. Despite the steps taken by various government agencies and machinery, there is no change in the situation of the farmers of the country.

In India, there is a large amount of fertile soil, abundant water, cheap labor and favorable weather conditions to generate income through agriculture. If these positive factors are to benefit the farmer and the farming, it is also necessary to teach the landowners why to trade farm produce along with the farming. New concept of special training centers is being prepared to provide trade training to the farmers in developed countries of the world.

Developed by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the concept aims to build skills for farmers and provide training on how to make their farming a profitable business. Such centers are being started by the Farmer Association, civil society, government institutions, etc. at the grassroots level in the developed countries, where farmers can attend on their own time to understand the opportunities, challenges and market strategies for selling their products.

In India, farmers are talked about raising incomes but no strategy on how to increase their income is implemented. One of the biggest shortages for India's agricultural sector is the product sales market. In today's technology age, farmers can sit on their farm and get such a market and sell their products themselves at competitive prices.

Of course they have to provide proper training for this. When 5% of the farmers are small landowners in the country, without the proper support of the government, these farmers have a chance to sell their produce at prices that are not available, and their status or income does not change.

Re-training and restructuring of infrastructure is the first requirement to support market-based farming. Special activities need to be provided to the farmers in order to achieve the desired results in the production activities and how to increase the profitability of the product. In our country, when farmers are seen as a watbank, politicians are also worried about plundering their garbage if they are made traders.

To effectively manage farm management and fight the challenges of products and marketing, farmers need to build capacity and structure where they can receive proper training based on their own experience and experience of others.

The key steps in planning a farming business are trade vision and goals, the ability to venture, and the scope. In addition, it involves the evaluation of the market and the creation of a business plan. In the case of onion prices recently observed, farmers were getting about 50 per cent price compared to the market price.

Trade training centers in developed countries solve the problems of the farmers, it helps them to develop the knowledge and managerial skills needed to understand these problems. Through these centers training can be given to the farmers with knowledge of how to solve these problems. The concept of such a school has begun to develop in the Philippines, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Ghana, etc., compared to India.

In order to advise on what to do if we want to double the income of the farmers of our country, the government has formed a Dalwai Committee in 2. Due to the wide gaps in the geographical and social status of our country, it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain a fixed income figure for farmers and rural households across the country. Based on the statistics of the Net State Domestic Product and the National Sample Survey Office per state, the Dalwai Committee estimated that the monthly income of the farmer family in the State was Rs.

If the income of the farmers is to be doubled to this level by 2-3 years, it is necessary to increase their income by 8.5 per cent annually, the Dalwai Committee said in its report on the basis of the study. However, in its report, the Dalwai Committee does not appear to have given any emphasis on the establishment of such centers to teach farmers to trade. It has been challenging to double the income of the farmers as the economic growth rate of the country needs to be increased to 5% in order to increase income.

Considering the government's policies and plans, the Prime Minister's dream is unlikely to come true. In the developed countries where farmers are trained in financial management skills and how to control the costs of production, training is provided to make farmers not only farming but also profitable trading of farm produce as part of increasing farmers' income in India. Don't be wrong.