Farmer Suicides and the Global food crisis: A Story not told | Devinder Sharma | TEDxRGNUL

[@MrTruth0teller]

Amazing, such things are not discussed in news media.

[@sthitapragnyadeshpande3321]

that is because the media has sacked 50% of its work force since 2008. They completely survive (and some of them thrive) by pandering to the money paid to them a) by corporates - for paid news / advertorials that broadcast what corporates want us to believe b) by government (the largest ads in news papers are mostly from government) - for keeping us busy with trivia that do not improve our lives (cricket, ram mandir, movies, all kinds of nonsense) TOI, arnab - all are part of this. TOI started this in 1989 - I remember as I was a youngster then and saw a decent newspaper turn into a tabloid.

[@mohitvats7575]

Very Impressive Devender ji! U r d voice of more den half of d population of india who depends on agriculture.

[@Sid_Kashyap_22]

Sharmaji has given best speech which I agree ... I support him...in his venture

[@rishabhbadhani5855]

Devender sir you are the only one who raise issues of farmers

[@VivekKumar-ov8sg]

It's really shameful that one section of society is getting obese by eating. And the other section doesn't even have a 1-time meal. Farmers do need additional income. The agriculture system needs structural changes.

[@ankitaggarwal4470]

Well said Devinder Ji. I would also add ways to reduce the cost of producing good have increased manifolds which you have mentioned. There are clear ways to reduce it. i.e Regenerative agriculture. these are the main practices which farmers should adopt to reduce losses, climate change, etc... Practices include: • Permaculture Design • Agroforestry • Soil Food Web • Animal Integration, and Holistically Managed Grazing • STUN (Sheer, Total and Utter Neglect) Breeding • Keyline Subsoiling • No-Till Farming, minimum tillage, and Pasture Cropping • Cover crops & multispecies cover crops • Organic Annual Cropping and Crop rotations • Compost, Compost Tea, animal manures and Thermal Compost • Natural sequence farming • Polyculture and full-time planting of multiple crop intercrop plantings • Borders planted for bee habitat and other beneficial insects • Biochar/Terra Preta • Ecological Aquaculture • Perennial Crops • BEAM (Biologically Enhanced Agricultural Management)

[@neerajvarpedeshmukh0019]

Nice analysis! Mr. P Chidambaram had decided to distribute fertilizer subsidy directly to farmers. Instead it is given to fertilizer companies. This Govt. has to give msp+50% profit as recommended by Dr. M. S. Swaminathan Committee and promised by hon. Prime Minister in his pre-election speeches

[@sthitapragnyadeshpande3321]

This is probably among the best talks I have heard on this issue. Crisp, and within 20 minutes, he covered everything that MS Swaminathan and P Sainath have been saying (both imho true Indians who want our country to become better, unlike the sell outs who sit in our government) . The anecdote about Norman Borlag was interesting. A tip - to paraphrase Swami Vivekanada, "You will be closer to reality by switching off your television, facebook, whatsapp and news papers".

[@rameshshinde4757]

Late Sharad Joshi had time and again said that govt policies have always been against agriculture

[@nareshvats]

Really impressive

[@prashantsingh-yt9yx]

Devinder sir ji aap jaise logo ki wajeh se kuch hope bnti hai ...syad kuch hoga farmer ka????

[@primoinnovations352]

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[@palaksmiles]

Sir hats off to you 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@julienbengkee5422]

Brillianf

[@MrTruth0teller]

Too many farmers dependent on too little land. Same goes for whole country, we are overpopulated.

[@sthitapragnyadeshpande3321]

Yes - we are overpopulated. but worse - we are also overpopulated by mafia who sit in the parliament in the center, in state capitals, in zillas and city municipalities. we call them politicians.

[@gaurav-k5rr]

Nice well research speech Sir but problem is that most of our farmers in country doesn't understand English...

[@sthitapragnyadeshpande3321]

This speech is for us city dwellers who understand English and decide what the government will do. Our farmers are well aware of the problem, but have no choice.

[@4103-s6i]

😅😅😅

[@Rajesh-qk1ne]

India's population in dec 2019 Is 137 crores........ We need to control our population to survive in future

[@dooshangokul5831]

Equip our farming and shift towards market driven mechanism. No more bull shit MSP , Strengthen insurance policies across the country. Promote transparency and accountability in the governance.

[@prashantsingh-yt9yx]

Aap ki generation last hai jo farmer ke baare me sochti hai...aaj ka youth to hindu muslim pe baat krta hai kewal...dark future of india.....

[@kirananil9875]

Govt did just opposite to above measures. They are not heavily subsidised, they don't get even the cost price of it

[@madhukarkgp]

In a developed country only 2-3% of population are involved in agriculture. In India 58% of population is involved in agriculture where the sector only constitutes 18% of GDP. There is lot of efficiency and ancient govt policies that make farmer income low. Develop agriculture markets first to open demand. We don’t export as other countries do and agriculture practices are stuck in ancient times.

[@julienbengkee5422]

brilliant

[@abhinavgupta3632]

Do you suggest that every farer should be given a fixed pay , irrespective of the size of the land ?

[@jaihind116]

Thanks sir

[@kikikut22]

note: @ 8 min. - USA farmers get much more support from the government than indian counterparts

[@Sid_Kashyap_22]

Technology won't solve problem... The money ,yes yes money...the note system has caused problem.... It was barter system in traditional days... That kept the equilibrium for farmers and consumer...also climate change due to industrialization , pollution, boring of water by cities, killing lots of animals, overpopulation, nirav modi looting , malya looting, corporates looting ..everything has caused problem..lack of awareness among young generation which are obsessed with internet.... Come on... I don't see any hope..for politics is the bloody massacre of suicides,....they want their stomach to be filled, their bank balance in 10 figures, they want their security, they are the biggest culprits...then comes.. land Lords.. business people who don't give farmers the optimum money they deserve... We India needs green revolution , technology we purchase from other countries n ISRO that's enough...focus on green revolution and climate related issues...

[@ankitkumar-hx6gq]

You are right ,bro

[@Ushacsemvd]

Correct brother

[@Sid_Kashyap_22]

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[@Sid_Kashyap_22]

@@Ushacsemvd yes sister thanks 🙏

[@prashantsingh-yt9yx]

In new india farmers commits suicide and their family become begger....this is the harsh reality of india....

[@knowledge_forever]

This is a very very narrow view. Price increase will only help big farmers, who actually sell their produce. The real downtrodden are those with no land or do subsistence farming on mostly unirrigated land, they make up more than half of our population. Read Economic surveys, 12th five year plan doc, or even Dr Ashok Gulati, former CACP chair

[@souvickch]

+Rahul Kejriwal There are other ways to fix around that , which would involve restructuring the procurement mechanisms . This doesn't refute the crux of his presentation that mass migration is resulting from people being choked out of agriculture and huddled into big cities on account of policies being dictated by transnational agencies like the World Bank. This is not a trivial assertion , so have you anything to refute it ? Because this guy is actually pretty credible.

[@knowledge_forever]

1. We need to get out of the well understood fear, emerging from a history of foreign subjugation and exploitation, of transnational agencies and corporations, and

[@knowledge_forever]

Use them for our own advantage to grow quickly. Just like the tiger economies of South East Asia including south Korea did.

[@knowledge_forever]

2. Movement of people from agriculture is bound to happen. This is inevitable. Only a handful of leftist, environmentalists like Vandana shiva believe in an alternate model which is yet to be seen anywhere in the post industrial society. We should focus on smooth movement or transformation from rural to urban, resistance is futile. Talk to the aspirational youth from villages, you will know what I mean. Today only 30 percent say cultivation is main source of income, while for more than fifty percent, manual labor is. We need things to change and fast.

[@knowledge_forever]

3. I very well understand plight of farming community but we as a country have limited resources. And the needs of dalits, tribes, landless, and hungry, take precedence.

[@bhanuprasad2899]

When he speaks "India has money for corporates and not weaker sections".. I stopped watching. Farming in itself is a uneconomical activity. World has excess food production. No wonder banks refuse to lend farmers. Mr. Sharma has an ideological axe to grind.

[@vishurahar9774]

Yes, you are right and we don't even need Agriculture produce at all. We can keep your body running on glucose & supplements.

[@africanqueenmo]

Vishu Rahar ha ha!

[@knowledge_forever]

There is a serious gap in his argument. firstly, the vast majority of farmers he is talking about, those with 1 hectares land holding, are doing subsistence agriculture. no matter how much you increase farm gate prices, it will help them as they are the consumers of what they grow. even assuming they switch to a cash crop like cotton and price of cotton at farmgate increased to three times the current prices, he wont be able to survive without social security schemes from govt. hence what is needed is to pull them out of agriculture, which is anyways happening for the last 5 decades, see the slums of any big city for examples. We need to provide them respectable jobs in secondary and tertiary sectors, whether agri-processing, core industry, or services. This is what government is going nuts explaining. We started the process too late, during Vajpeyi era and then moved on to provide temporary respite measures like MGNREGA, etc as the UPA thought save the present first, future we will take care of itself. Current regime is looking at future in a better way. present is bleak since independence and will continue to be so until we work now to improve the future which is the present for our children.

[@vishal8271]

and that is why friend , this guy says , fixed income and not msp... plz hear him out carefully.. nothing wrong in his arguments...

[@abhinavgupta3632]

If we pull out farmers from agriculture instead of training them to use better technology and high yielding seeds, are we not increasing chances of food shortage. Moreover in urban areas , there is not enough job opportunities that are well paying. How should a youth from the rural area be brought to urban area and be promised to earn more than what he earned back in his village. Also the costs of living in urban area are many folds of that in rural area.

[@paharsinghmann]

Are you nuts! One hectare is almost 2.5 acres i.e. almost 20 kanaals. No family even with members up to 10 can consume the produce more than half acre(4 kanaals). Which means 4/5 th portion is still available for selling. Both MSP AND MINIMUM INCOME MUST BE IMPLEMENTED BY GOVERNMENT IF IT IS DONE WITH SELLING INDIA. But that doesn't seem to be the case

[@Karan-wz7pt]

Guranteed Income for Farmers - Great Idea

[@patilpravinpharma]

All farmers sons are moving out of farming sir, they do jobs and parallely may take non food crops or leave their land barren. Time will come when there will be war for food.

[@PradipVasantDeshpande]

reduce cost by not using rasayanic khat .do not give lone give them direct financial help.

[@sanket12345ful]

What is Modi Sarkaar doing about this?

[@OblivionWonderlust]

nothing lol

[@sanket12345ful]

tanishq vedak Boo hoo! Modi Can't do every thing at once. Once we get on UNSC we can fix things faster...

[@OblivionWonderlust]

sanket12345ful or instead of defining the word TOLLERENCE in the sessions of parliament, new policies can be drafted to help farmers

[@v1234able]

+sanket12345ful he s been brought to do exactly wht he been told by world bank .. 100 smart city is first stone ..

[@knowledge_forever]

+sanket12345ful skill india, bridging the digital divide, building of tier 2,3 cities through modern urban models, financial inclusion, irrigation, electricity for farmers. Change is happening, slowly. you need to visit, travel around. ask locals about what they/ their father were doing in 1995 and now. especially in MP, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Guj and some other states. In India, we follow the constitutional model of middle path and incremental growth, so change takes time unlike China. If you look closely, everything is being done for farmers, especially the landless and marginalized and not just the rich ones of west UP, haryana and punjab. And I will say this - don't look for dark spots in a clear sky. this is perhaps the last chance for India.

[@AadityaUpadhyaya]

Sir America is developed country , fundamentally based on welfare state concept . We can't compare with India .

[@harmanbrar4730]

here after farmbills

[@rja1045]

Disagree