Towards self-sufficiency in Urea Production

 From long time this is a matter of discussion that if government keeps urea production and import below the demand then farmers will use urea under a limit. But why no one can understand the complication that keeping less stock is not solution to use of urea by farmers. Because those farmers who have money will certainly buy the urea as much as he requires. Keeping low stocks as per requirement will leads to BLACK marketing. Till 2014 there were huge urea crises prevailed in market, and it was always sold above M.R.P. as black marketing.

To curb the excess use of urea by farmers government can withdraw the Urea subsidy. If this happens then prices of urea will shoot up. Then this can do some role.  Increase in prices of a commodity or a product may only limit its use.

 But here one think is important to note that farmers are not using urea as more as government predicts. The farmers are cautious enough to see the impact of high urea doses. Almost all the farmers are aware not to apply urea in excess quantity.  But in case of urea, governments were keeps on focusing to make lower the stocks of urea in country. but this situation was generated complication in farmers community as trading and selling happened urea and also other fertilizers as Black marketing.

 The previous governments were also keeps cap on the urea production for urea manufacturers plants.  This shows that how governments were not interested in solution of a problem. Unfortunately they keep on maintaining the situation as it is.  

So till 2014 the urea crisis was prevalent through the country. In Modi government, the manufacturers gets rights to produce urea as much as they can.

 Before 2014 only 30 % of urea was allowed for neem coating. This was also a case that governments were deliberately creating the problems. But in the current government they directed companies to make 100% neem coating of all urea.

 Before 100% neem coating the urea was used in the different factories for non agriculture purpose. Urea has different grade for the industrial and agricultural purpose. The urea for the industrial purpose is not subsidized so its cost is more than double than urea for the agriculture purpose. So misuse of the subsidy was also a part and agriculture grade urea was used in considerable amount by other industries such as ply wood manufactures and many more. Urea without neem coating was also used by the synthetic milk traders, or we can say it was used for adulteration.  By neem coating the urea for the agriculture could not be used in industries and also not by milk mans.

Till date urea is being imported along with domestic production with some restrictions. Now in the country several urea plants are getting revived as in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Government has decided not to import urea from other countries within five years. Government wants to produce sufficient urea from domestic manufacturers for all its domestic demand. But here government has to give assurance to the manufactures not to delay subsidies because due to subsidy issue private players are not interested to invest in urea manufacturing. Due to subsidies and low profits Tata Chemical Ltd has sold out its plant. To establish a new urea plant it takes minimum three year to become operational. So if government wants to achieve sufficient domestic urea production within five years then they have to give assurance to the corporate players for Gas and easy subsidy claims. Any delay in making these policies, the task of becoming self sufficient in urea production within five years is very difficult.

Sex semen

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Now animal husbandry is going to witness a great revolution ahead. Now this is possible that those who are rearing the cows or running diary business they have an opportunity to get their desired calf whether male or female. Almost all the farmers want to get female calf from any birth of cow. The male calf is undesirable as they are not useful in the agriculture directly. Before the commercialization of tractors and other big machinery, the male calf were used to grow as bullock and then to use them for the various agriculture operations such as ploughing, harrowing, to operate the carts also and many more. But when tractors and other machines became common and affordable to the farmers then bullocks are of no use except to use as a source of semen and dung. This is a great trouble for the farmers to get option to have only female calf not male calf on their farms to get more profit.

But this is surprising that now scientists have developed such semen that will ensure birth to the female calf only when use on the cows. This semen is called “SEX SEMEN“.  Now this semen is commercialized in India. Now in several districts this semen is available to use on the cows.

By this new development in this field, the big trouble of the farmers is going to be resolved. Now farmer’s farms will be more productive as cows will produce only female calf, if farmer desired. And undesired bullocks will not made financial burden on the farmers.


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Subsidy to agriculture sector in India @ political agenda

The farming and agriculture is the only way to feed the population of a nation or of the world.
Any country where the farming is a side business and mainly they are industrial nations they are offering various types of subsidy to the farmers or indirectly to the farm produce so that farmers can be retained into the agribusiness. If farmers will see the benefit in agriculture then they will keep doing farming.

As the industrial nations are mainly depend on the various other industries and agriculture is only a side business, so retaining farmers is just to fulfill the food needs of the country’s population.
 Worldwide agriculture alone provides 19% of the employment and India its approximately 65%. 
As the food is a prime and mandatory requirement and food productions also needs to grow as population increases. In our country agriculture and its allied sectors provides the livelihood to more than 65 percent of the population alone. Rest 30 - 35% of the population’s livelihood comes from rest other sectors. Thus the agriculture is the biggest and single sector which provides the biggest employment to the Indian nationals. As a result agriculture is of most important sector where the government has to be serious.
 Those unemployed persons who don’t find any other job they tend to search opportunities in the field of agriculture. Thus the agriculture is a last hope of employment also. In India as the country is not an industrial economy hence people don’t have options to opt for other jobs. Governments also can’t provide the direct employment to this big population. Thus those 65% who are already employed in agriculture and on its allied fields, they need to be supplemented by government in case of any loss or any urgency. To fulfill all these requirements the government extends its support to the farmers via some subsidies and loan wavier. This is just because the government to aim to sustain the interest of the farmers in the farming and the employment can be restored by extending some support. This small help by the government satisfies a vast range of requirements.
If food production will go down then the dependency on the other nations will increase. People can live without oil and other things but not without food. So self dependency on the food production front is prime requirement for India and same for any other nations too. But for India with the food production it’s a matter of employment And to conserve the money from importing food grains.     
This is not a good practice to offer loan wavier to farmers because misuse of this government help is taking place. A visionary step taken by Uttar Pradesh current govt to provide interest free loans for the farmers. This will increase the trust of the farmers in the banking and they will also mentally prepare to repay the loans. Because offering interest free loan is also very big support by any government to any sector.

Agriculture income should be taxable

               

  In India the agriculture income is exempted from tax. Certainly farmers should be relaxed from the taxes as much as possible. As farmers interest should be maintained in the farming because only this way Indian population can be fed. But why the matter of farm taxes are getting highlighted time to time is because of the misuse of agriculture income tax exemption.

The reality is that most of the farm income is being shown by those who has the primary income either from salary (for service class) or from some kind of business. Most of these people are showing the agriculture income just to get exempted from the taxes. Income from other primary source of these people is huge. In most of the cases these people either earn money from wrong means and to convert that money into white money they are trying to show this money from agriculture income or to save taxes from the huge income from their business.

On one hand government is concern to increase the farm income, so that farming  can be a profit making business and farmers could live a better life and this is most challenging part. But on other hand most of the people are showing their huge income on the name of agriculture income which is unjustifiable. This is a contradiction that several people are earning huge profit from the agriculture but several farmers (who are belongs to real farming community) are compel to commit suicide due to losses in agriculture.       

If agriculture income is such a huge when these people are not looking after the farms directly then why most of the farmers are struggling even to get livelihood from the farming when they are directly involve in agriculture and himself doing farming. So certainly showing huge agriculture income is a suspected matter.

To decide the farm income, government can also either check or take the declaration about all kind of income from those who are showing any income from agriculture. This will define the real source of incomes. Anyway, finally the government must not relax up to this much of taxes on the name of agriculture income. For the taxes, government should ensure justice so that no one should be exempted from the tax who wants to make their black money into white (culprits).

 One of the facilities should be extended for the farmers that all the farmers and farm labors should be covered in any special kind of life insurance scheme so that in case of any causality or disability to any farmer or any farm labor, farmer’s family can get some assistance. 

But on the name of agriculture profit the tax exemption should not be provided.

Requirement of right platform for the Donations in government welfare schemes

 As in various states the subsidized fooding scheme is going to operate for the poor’s, In M.P. this scheme is started and in Uttar Pradesh this is underway on the arrival of new government. This is a welcome step and appreciable step. The scheme should be appreciated as much as possible.

This can be said as one of biggest reform in the way of social security. Most of the people want a place where they can donate, so they use to go to temples to donate.
 

But my one of the suggestions may be important for the scheme. If government can provide a donation platform to the places, where subsidized foods are being served. This will help government to save the government money and in my opinion government can operate this scheme without government fund, this will be run by the people’s participation. But to do this government needs to provide the right platform where people can give donation without any hurdle.

Government should also monitor the stores /godowns by installing the CCTV cameras.

By monitoring the working of these centers from CCTV, the stocks in the kitchen and stores can be monitored. Chances of corruption and disturbance can be checked.

If donation counters are installed then online or printed receipt should be provided to the donors. It may also be a better option to provide an online platform for the donors where volunteers can give donation online.

As film actor Akshay kumar says that an online donation portal should be made by the government, where any person can give donation for the dependents of martyred army personals.

Same type of online platform is required which provide a common platform for the volunteer donors to donate for the different public welfare schemes.
The government is not doing so because they think that those people who are trying to save the taxes, why they will donate to government directly and voluntarily. But government must realize the real Indian mind. Now as changed political situation of the country, government needs to see the sentiment of the people that Indian people needs transparent and trusted people whether in government or in social life.

Now people of India see and feel the trusted government so now they are with government and they want to go with hand in hand with government for all its welfare moves. People also like to donate as per their won wish not by compulsion and force. The taxes are compulsion and without will of common people and low income group. But in a year a family of a low income group donates more money to temples than he/she gives in tax to the government.

By giving right platform for the donations, people can participate voluntarily because:

1. They believe in government that their money is going for the right purpose as they are seeing that affordable food is being provide to the poor’s.

2. Trust in the work of government is visible in the government by any person.

3. To get full support of the people donation plate farm is requires so governments fund can be saved.