RE:Wake Up India! Time is running out!
by Ramu on Jul 04, 2007 12:57 AM
Omkar, what else you expect from govt on agriculture. Farmers have no income tax,subsidised fertilizers & power(supposedly free in some states) and seeds. Then they have loans which are often waved. Govt has built so many damns, irrigation projects putting thousands of crores of money. How govt got this money, by taxing the employees and businesses. When they commit suicide, Govt gives them exgratia too.What else you want to give to these people?salary?
A country of 1 billion people will not become a developed country unless we industrialise rapidly.Look at all the developed countries, they became rich because of industry and technology not by Agriculture.
Most of the times Agriculture is like gambling which bets heavily on the Rain.
Ofcourse I am not against Agriculture. We should be completely self sufficient and in the future too. At the same time its sad to see even with most fertile land in the world and so many people working in this sector we are not fully self sufficient.
