Comments by "Alexander Philip" (@alexanderphilip1809) on "VICE News"
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Unfortunately as Justified as the protests are, the reforms along with gras roots level awareness programs are the onky way to reform Punjab's lopsided agricultural sector that is riddled with structural inefficiencies and lack of capital, too many people chasing too little capital somethings gotta give, either small holding farmers move onto other sectors while increasing the holding size for the ones left behind or they shift to other crops that are less water intensive like Rice, which fuels the alarming rate of ground water extraction in punjab which is incentivised by the govt policies, Rice farming in Northern India is a disaster if these farmers cant see that a drought that cant be managed will, Indian governments Central and State is not exactly known for competancy let alone efficiency. These policy measures of intrusive state support for inefficient farming kick started this whole thing when India was facing famine and living on American grain exports, Those days are long gone, Indian Government is scared of people making noise about rising food prices, so by their logic from a crisis management point its better to deal with a relatively small number of farmers than incur tye wrath of the gigantic Indian consumers. These protests are the result of failed policies that supported inefficienct farning in one of India's most fertile regions for decades, Farmers are merely looking out for their livelyhood doing what govt policy for the longest period has dictated, these reforms should have been carried out atleast two decades ago, Punjabi/Sikh Farmers are doing well in other countries why not in India, Idiotic state intervention from well intentioned but misinformed socialistic policies.
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