My suggestions to solve the problem of farmer’s suicide

1. There should be strict rule to curb the private money lenders.
2. There should be reliable source of seed, fertilizers and other agricultural
inputs, so that farmers have need not to depend on sales man.
3 . There should be more provisioning of subsidy, particularly on cash crops,
so that the farmers of India can also stand firmly in the global market like
the farmers of other developed countries.
4 . Setting up of more and more irrigation system, particularly in rain fed
areas like Vidarbha.
5 . Improvement in marketing facilities.
6 . More relevant agricultural research should be done to develop cotton
varieties which are high yielding as well as resistant to drought and also
less susceptible to pest and diseases.
7 . Government is launching more and more new schemes for the betterment
of farmers, no doubt it is important but in the absence of adequate
implementing mechanisms the schemes fail to reach to the local people.
So, implementing mechanism should be strengthened.
8 . Already there are a large number of suggestions given by the experts of
this field that can solve the problem of farmer’s suicide and indebtedness.
But the need is to ensure that many of these measures should be
implemented with greater efficiency. That is government should be more
responsive to help the farmers at field level.
9 . In most of the cases it is found that farmers were unaware of various
kinds of helps offered by the government of India. Of course there are
government officials at the panchayat level like VLW, but they are not
effective enough. This is not because of administrative dis functioning
rather today the world is changing too rapidly and it is very difficult for a
VLW to know the current changes in the Agricultural Technologies and
convey it to the farmers. So, I would like to suggest here that more and
more IT applications should be done in the field of Agriculture to make the
government officials and farmers aware about the world’s changing
scenario of Agriculture and agricultural technologies.
Traditional knowledge is good for traditional societies. But
when circumstances under which farming has to be conducted are changing
rapidly, the traditional channel of knowledge should be replaced with modern
channel of knowledge.
10. Thus the gap between knowledge and practice created needs to be
filled in a responsible manner.
And after all I would like to suggest that the local leaders and national level
politicians should take more responsibility like Mr. Kishor Tivari, to make the
farmers feel that some one is standing behind them for their support.