farmer commit suicide in AAP ralley live on TV

[Nicky G]

Political affiliations of the person who died - original link in Hindi - साफे के कारोबारी थे गजेंद्र, लड़ चुके थे चुनाव तस्वीरें देखें - IBN Khabar

Google translate:

New Delhi. Jantar Mantar, the common name of the party rally Kalyanwat Gajendra Singh, a man committed suicide. Gajendra was living in a village in the Dausa district of Rajasthan. However Gajendra mere peasant farmers, but they were not being told, but were socially and politically active and prosperous. Even they were fighting elections.

Gajendra Singh Kalyanwat bandikui assembly area originally belonged to Dausa district. From a young age he was active in politics with his uncle Gopal Singh Nangal. Nangal head and had been ombudsman. Gajendra politics started with the BJP. He lived BJP participation in local events and also had wishes to contest.Gajendra Singh from the BJP ticket in 2003 did not, then he has crossed over to the Socialist Party.

Gajendra Singh Kalyanwat pause lose the SP contested the 2003 assembly, which he had to defeat BJP Alka Singh. Gajendra then stood in politics. Staying in the 2013 SP politics. The members of the State Executive Gajendra from the collector to the SP journey. However, in 2013, he has crossed over to the Congress in the assembly around to get tickets. But when Congress Gajendra Singh was ignored, he came closer to the common man party.

Gajendra Singh reportedly battling domestic strife and were removed from the home.Gajendra in his suicide note has pointed to the fact, which he wrote to my father drove me home. Indeed, Gajendra was married to a girl in the family, but they were hurt because of removal from the home.

Gajendra Singh Jaipuria were turbaned business. Famous people of the country and the world had put their hands SAFA, including Bill Clinton, President of Nepal ecstasy, Murli Manohar Joshi, Khushwant ABV. Gajendra Singh had mastered the art so that in a minute to 12 people were packed headgear. Also Gajendra was accomplished in 33 style Pgdian tying. He also made regular website to enhance your business, so they were active on online platforms such as Facebook.

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A politician, hardly a poor farmer.

 

[anonymus]

Not really. Indian Food security program is not only the largest in the world its also the CHEAPEST in the world

So who is paying for it ? Not the tax payer for sure.

If you are thinking farmer, you are wrong.

MSP is the price that is declared by government before start of season which government is duty bound to pay to any farmer which arrives at procurement center. It is lowest floor price, not highest or even average. Farmers are free to sell anywhere they could get a better price.

Low cost of FSB could be due to higher purcahsing power of same amount of money in India.

 

[MokshaVimukthi]

So tell us why . Are you saying it is a conduit for black money or that the farmers do not get rs100 or what?

The answer is rather obvious.

Why is it the farmer commits suicide because of poverty but the consumer never commits suicide because of lack of food or high prices of food ?

 

[monitor]

Farmer Suicides Continue Unabated in India in 2015

Yet another farmer suicide reported in Delhi today. This suicide did not go unnoticed by the Indian media because it happened in front of the cameras covering the Aam Aadmi Party rally. AAP rules the Indian capital New Delhi. It occurred only a stone throw away from Lok Sabha, the Indian parliament.

About 60% of India's population is employed in the agricultural and allied sector, which contributes 18% of the country's GDP. Official figures show 11,772 farmers committed suicide in 2013 across India. That is 44 deaths every day.

Not much has changed in the last two years since I wrote the following post titled "India's Agrarian Crisis: A Farmer Commits Suicide Every 30 Minutes" on my Haq's Musings blogin 2013:

An Indian farmer commits suicide every 30 minutes. About 200,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves over the last decade, according to media reports quoting India Rural Development Report 2012-13 released in September this year.


The report, prepared by a government-funded Infrastructure Development Finance Company, was released by India's rural development minister Jairam Ramesh. It says 65% of India’s poor live in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in 2011-12, a significant increase from 50% in 1993-94.
More recent news indicates that the crisis is continuing unabated. About two-thirds of the farmer suicides are being reported from 5 states: Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Other states are not immune. Indian Punjab has seen nearly 7000 farmers kill themselves in the last decade. Gujarat, the home of BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, reported 60 farmer suicides in 2012-13.
A report by Center for Human Rights and Global Justice blames failures of biotech crops, particularly Bt cotton, for the tragedy. The report also says inadequate policy responses are contributing to the crisis. Others believe it is caused by poor irrigation. They say that cotton requires a lot more water relative to other crops. It takes 25,000 liters of water to produce one kilo of cotton, about 50 times more than to grow a kilo of potatoes, according to a report in Forbes magazine.
The problem of suicides appears to be at least in part due to the fact that India's value added agriculture continues be among the lowest in the world. Unlike India, Pakistan managed to significantly raise agriculture productivity and rural incomes in 1980s through a livestock revolution. Economic activity in dairy, meat and poultry sectors now accounts for just over 50% of the nation's total agricultural output. The result is that per capita value added to agriculture in Pakistan is almost twice as much as that in Bangladesh and India.


Adding value is the process of changing or transforming a product from its original state to a more valuable state, according to Professor Mike Boland of Kansas State University. The professor explains how it applies to agriculture as follows:
"Many raw commodities have intrinsic value in their original state. For example, field corn grown, harvested and stored on a farm and then fed to livestock on that farm has value. In fact, value usually is added by feeding it to an animal, which transforms the corn into animal protein or meat. The value of a changed product is added value, such as processing wheat into flour. It is important to identify the value-added activities that will support the necessary investment in research, processing and marketing. The application of biotechnology, the engineering of food from raw products to the consumers and the restructuring of the distribution system to and from the producer all provide opportunities for adding value."
Although Pakistan's value added to agriculture is high for its region, it has been essentially flat since mid-1990s. It also lags significantly behind developing countries in other parts of the world. For example, per capita worker productivity in North Africa and the Middle East is more than twice that of Pakistan while in Latin America it is more than three times higher.


Agriculture Value Added Per Capita in Constant 2000 US$--Source: World Bank
There are lots of opportunities for Pakistan to reach the levels of value addition already achieved in Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.These range from building infrastructure to reduce losses to fuller utilization of animals and crops for producing valuable products. Value addition through infrastructure development includes storage and transportation facilities for crops, dairy and meat to cut spoilage. Other opportunities to add value include better processing of sugarcane waste, rice bran, animal hides and bones, hot treatment, grading and packaging of fruits, vegetables and fish, etc.


Agriculture Value Added Per Capita in South Asia, North Africa and Latin America--Source: World Bank
Pakistan's growing middle class has increased demand for dairy, meat and various branded and processed food products. Engro, Nestle, Unilever and other food giants are working with family farms and supermarket chains like Makro, Hyperstar and Metro Cash and Carry to respond to it by setting up modern supply chains.
Growth of value added agriculture in Pakistan has helped the nation's rural economy. It has raised incomes and reduced rural poverty by creating more higher wage jobs. It has had a salutary effect on the lives of the rural poor in terms of their ability to afford better healthcare, nutrition and education. Doing more to promote value added agriculture can accelerate such improvements for the majority of Indians and Pakistanis who engage in agriculture and textiles and still live in rural areas.

Here's a video on Indian farmers' suicides:

Farmer suicides in India by next9news

 

[Roybot]

Why weren't the police able to stop the suicide?

Why do you think? Because Delhi police is a Central government organization or maybe because they didn't get enough time to rescue or have enough resources to stop the guy from committing suicide?

 

[anonymus]

There are lot of suicide cases of Indian farmers, AFAIK Indian govt. lot of subsidies to agriculture sector, what's the reason that they still are in situation where they find suicide the solution?

Uncle.

You too needs a schooling in mathematics!!

 

[jamahir]

So I ask again, How is it that the government can afford to provide Rice and Wheat to the public at Rs. 2-3 per Kilo ?

India has the LARGEST food security program in the world.

No one seems to be asking, how are we paying for it. WHO is paying for it.

25 kg rice for Rs 1

Who is paying for it ?

‘Rice at 1 rupee a kg’ - The Hindu

Odisha launches Rs 1 per kg rice scheme for poor - IBNLive

Karnataka CM unveils ambitious Rs 1 kg rice scheme - Rediff.com India News

and it is this dependence on rice that has created lack of mental growth among indians, one reason which necessiated the thoughtless international project called "golden rice" ( The Golden Rice Project ).

the traditional indian diet must simply be replaced with something more scientific.

 

[Nicky G]

@jamahir, No point quoting me, I'll ignore you. I have argued with you and there is no point to it. There seems to be no good reason to argue with you; you should go get some of the 'great' socialist leaders to have Modi or Swamy argue with you or haul them to them some international court.

Moving on, what we know so far:

 

[Sky lord]

The answer is rather obvious.

Why is it the farmer commits suicide because of poverty but the consumer never commits suicide because of lack of food or high prices of food ?

Please see posts#126 and 127 in this thread. It appears there is NO statistical difference between the suicide rate of farmers and the general population.

Farmers do not commit suicide at any higher rate than consumers. This is political drama to satisfy the very important farmers groups.

 

[anonymus]

The answer is rather obvious.

Why is it the farmer commits suicide because of poverty but the consumer never commits suicide because of lack of food or high prices of food ?

Farmer may commit suicide because he is poor, but he is poor because for the sort of land holding he has, he should not have been farming to begin with.

This quandary would be solved only by industrialization. Something which won't happen with present land acquisition act.

 

[MokshaVimukthi]

Please see posts#126 and 127 in this thread. It appears there is NO statistical difference between the suicide rate of farmers and the general population.

Farmers do not commit suicide at any higher rate than consumers. This is political drama to satisfy the very important farmers groups.

I am not focused on this specific suicide, but on the larger aspect of farmer prosperity. Their productivity and fair price for their produce.

Farmers get a pittance for their produce. That is the real problem.

Farmer may commit suicide because he is poor, but he is poor because for the sort of land holding he has, he should not have been farming to begin with.

This quandary would be solved only by industrialization. Something which won't happen with present land acquisition act.

India has more mouth to feed than land to till. There is perpetual shortage of food, yet the farmer never gets a good price. They ALWAYS sell their produce cheap.

If Food was expensive, farmers would have been Rich. We would have been poor. What do we need more ? Food or Software ?

 

[Sky lord]

I am not focused on this specific suicide, but on the larger aspect of farmer prosperity. Their productivity and fair price for their produce.

Farmers get a pittance for their produce. That is the real problem.

In my opinion , I too should be paid more. The fact remains that farmers do not commit suicide at any higher rate than the general population.

Everyone in india has problems. I am happy to give you a list of mine if I can get some subsidies for them

 

[MarkovChain]

So I ask again, How is it that the government can afford to provide Rice and Wheat to the public at Rs. 2-3 per Kilo ?

India has the LARGEST food security program in the world.

No one seems to be asking, how are we paying for it. WHO is paying for it.

25 kg rice for Rs 1

Who is paying for it ?

‘Rice at 1 rupee a kg’ - The Hindu

Odisha launches Rs 1 per kg rice scheme for poor - IBNLive

Karnataka CM unveils ambitious Rs 1 kg rice scheme - Rediff.com India News

India raises minimum support price for rice by 3.8 pct - minister| Reuters

(Reuters) - The government has raised the price at which it will buy the new season common rice from local farmers by 3.8 percent to 1,360 rupees ($22.78) per 100 kilograms, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told a news conference after a cabinet meeting.

The government has also raised the price of the superior variety of rice to 1,400 rupees per 100 kg, up from 1,345 rupees from the previous year, Prasad said.

India buys rice from local farmers to protect growers from any distress sale and to build stocks for its welfare programmes.

The Govt buys at 14rs a kg and gives it to the public at Rs.1 a kg. Who loses? Tax payers.

 

[MokshaVimukthi]

In my opinion , I too should be paid more. The fact remains that farmers do not commit suicide at any higher rate than the general population.

Everyone in india has problems. I am happy to give you a list of mine if I can get some subsidies for them

Since the risk taken by the farmer is high, why is he not eligible for automatic insurance ?

A farmer cannot sell his agricultural land for non agricultural use, but he is denied insurance. why ?

India raises minimum support price for rice by 3.8 pct - minister| Reuters
The Govt buys at 14rs a kg and gives it to the public at Rs.1 a kg. Who loses? Tax payers.

So why is the govt. not buying at Rs. 140 a Kg ? Even with a shortage of rice and wheat after unseasonal rain, how come the price has not gone up ?

 

[anonymus]

I am not focused on this specific suicide, but on the larger aspect of farmer prosperity. Their productivity and fair price for their produce.

Farmers get a pittance for their produce. That is the real problem.

That is not true.

Take example of Wheat.

Price of wheat in USA is equivalent to 1297.98 Rs/quintle while MSP for Wheat in India is 1400 Rs/quintle.

Farmers earn less because they have small uneconomical land holdings hence they could not produce more, not because they are robbed blind by government.

Wheat - Daily Price - Commodity Prices - Price Charts, Data, and News - IndexMundi

Govt increases minimum support price for Rabi crops, including wheat - The Times of India