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Power and Rural India
by shailendra lande on Jul 07, 2008 09:08 PM

MMS should go ahead with this deal. We, farmers, are facing acute power shortage nearly 12 hours daily in rural areas. What will be the situation after 2 years when industrialization is rapidly increasing, power needs of people are increasing, green house gases are increasing, biofuel is cheap but we cannot afford it at the cost of agriculture produce like maize, soybean etc. Farmers will switchover to these crops which may cause shortage of food grains. If this trend continue, we will become a "chronic" importer of food grains in the coming years.
As far as inflation is concerned, it hurts the urban society but benefits the farmers. Prices of agriculture produce increases during MMS's period. We never made money in the past what we making now. Government should continue the subsidy on urea, DAP, seeds, pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and diesel for farmers. Then only the situation of farmers will improve. Inflation in food grains should be between 5% to 8% for the betterment of farmers. Please don't make shout on inflation, lets farmers be benefitted. This government is really doing good things for the farmers.
Religious riots never happened in Rural India except caste base riots. One can learn this from poor rural India. We have nothing to do with muslim bashing, we are living with each other in harmony from centuries that too with out riots.

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