Foodgrains
Surplus is predicted by the Agriculture Minister...
Statistics are manipulated to show the figures...
Foodgrains
worth crores are reported in the media to rot in the Open Storage Godowns of
FCI...
Import of foodgrains continues to increase year
after year...
Hunger
still continues as ever... with percentage of the poor increasing year after
year...
Fertile land is shrinking at an alarming pace
allover the nation...
Farmers’
Community is losing numbers as many of them have either shifted to urban cities
or else sold their land...
THINK ABOUT ALL
THESE HEADLINES...
and you will wonder, how the government of India is actually misleading the
nation with statistical claims...
It
is a well-known fact that Punjab & Haryana the Foodgrain Baskets of India
has been facing low yield per acre because of various agriculture related
problems, majorly because of heavy usage of Chemical Fertilizer, Pesticides
& Insecticides... depleted groundwater has made farmers from Punjab to
migrate in states like Madhya Pradesh and Maharastra and even in Africa... And,
with millions of hectares of fertile land being acquired by the Government for
SEZ, Thermal & Nuclear Power Projects, Industrial Zones, Educational
Institutions, Essential Infrastructural Projects and not forgetting the Housing
Projects, Commercial Property like Malls, Hotels etc... the total agricultural
land is shrinking at an alarming pace.
So how can the foodgrains yield increase?
Statistics
are often manipulated by various departments of the government... and this was
confirmed by the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee... So one wonders as to
why the Government is misleading the nation while helping the corporate, all in
the name of Economic Growth.
As
per the Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, the insensitive Indian Government allows foodgrains worth 58,000 crores to rot
every year in FCI Open Storage Godowns... and these are highlighted only for a few
days by the electronic media (obviously to divert the nation’s attention from
serious political issues) and then... the nation’s government doesn’t even
bother about such a huge quantity being allowed to waste under government machinery.
Needless
to say, it is the well-laid plan of the government, so that the kith & kins
of various political leaders, who own liquor distilleries, can buy the
readymade material for making high-end liquor at the cheapest rate of Re. 0.60
per kilogram of rotten foodgrains... When the Supreme Court admonished the
Nation’s Government about such a callous attitude and ordered to distribute the
excess foodgrains to the hungry & poor... the Agriculture Minister said – ‘The
Government is buying wheat @ Rs.15/- a kg and so cannot distribute it free.’
The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh even said – ‘Supreme Court cannot ask the
Government about Policy Making and the SC should not interfere.’ The Government
cannot distribute the excess foodgrains to hungry & the poor, but will allow
it to rot, and sell it at a loss of Rs. 14.40/- per kg to liquor barons...
Callousness at its heights...What economic theory is
this?
The
poor tribal villagers of Tembhali in Maharastra satisfy their hunger eating
Imli ka pata (Tamarind leaves) 20 to 25 days a month... and the nation’s Prime
Minister doesn’t even bat his eyelid... instead goes on to give them UID...
If
our nation, as claimed by the Agriculture Minister and the Prime Minister, is
producing foodgrains in excess (in spite of less fertile land)... then why is
the nation importing more GMO foodgrains from various countries and exporting
our pure Organic foodgrains to other countries? India is the largest producer
of pulses in the world, but the ironic fact is that we, as the nation also
happens to be the largest importer of pulses from various countries producing
GMO pulses in their industrial farming. These imported pulses are not labelled
as GMO Products... and it is these GMO foodgrains, which are actually crippling
the nation with Cancer, Diabetes, Neurological Disorder, creating high Mental
Stress, Heart Problems, Kidney Problems and diseases that were unheard of a few
decades ago.
With
the rate of the pulses skyrocketing week after week, the poor has escaped the
GMO foodgrains... as one can find it is the rich & the famous, who are more
suffering from the dreaded disease of Cancer and other deadly diseases...all
because of GMO foodgrains that our nation’s Government is importing from other
countries. Prices of every foodgrains has been and is increasing at an alarming
pace... one wonders how will the poor survive? I was shocked recently on my
Bombay trip, to find the common man & poor’s delight the Vada-Pav selling @
Rs. 10/- .... two years ago, it was selling @ Rs. 6/-... it also shows that one
who is savouring Vada-Pav in Bombay is actually not a poor man’s delight any
more...
First
the dal and now the Vada-Pav have been stolen from the poor man’s plate...
sweets, fruits, milk, curd, vegetables are all out of the reach of the poor... so
in what ways are the Government’s claims true that we are producing more
foodgrains??? It is a common economic theory that when there is excess of any
good, the rates fall... but, the corrupt governance under the corrupt economist
Prime Minister has made everything costly and the escalating cost of food items
are killing everybody, including the middle class... so the poor!!!
Well, who really cares for the Poor?
With
fertile land shrinking at an alarming pace, how can the produce increase in
totality?
What logic is this?
Farmers’
Community is also losing its population because initial investment of farming
has increased multifolds – seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, insecticides, labour
wages with uncertainty of nature’s fall (rain) – the farmers don’t get a good
rate when the harvesting season arrives as traders’ lobby along with the
Government Agencies manipulate to decrease the rates of the harvested crops...
many farmers have shifted to urban cities shunning farming to survive... and
there are many, who have sold their land either because they were acquired or
by force by the State Government for various corporate projects.
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