Create Farmer's Rights Commission (MFRC) to Prevent Suicides of Farmers in Maharashtra - Kishore Tiwari

Create Farmer's Rights Commission  (MFRC)  to Prevent Suicides of Farmers in Maharashtra - Kishore Tiwari

Date – 8th January 2020

Once again Maharashtra last month has been rocked with news of 300 farmers suicides taking toll to more than 3000 innocent farmers urging newly elected Maharashtra chief minister   Uddhav Thackeray has been urged by veteran farm activist and chief minister’s adviser on agrarian crisis to tackle the issue of 3 decade old issue of farmers suicides and restoration of rural economy in order to implement   integrated the program by establishing first Maharashtra Farmers' Rights Commission ( MFRC)under his chairmanship with full judicial power in line with  Human Rights Commission and powered independent experts to address core issues related to

1)   Credit supply policy control

2)   Fund management for cost of cultivation or stabilization of agricultural prices.

3)  Equal distribution of water resources and control of rain and underground water resources.

4) Planning of crop management and management of competent disaster management system.

5) Planning and Farming of Agricultural Conservation and Agricultural Storage Processing System ,With the introduction of a program of radical change in these five areas and integrated reform in the administrative framework in line with  decision the progressive government policies.

In his draft, Kishore Tiwari says that the major  causes of India's agrarian crisis are due to strategic mistakes in these five key areas mentioned above are not restricted to the problems of agriculture and rural economy  alone but issues  health, social imbalances, problems of employment as well as the rapid elimination of water resources and livelihoods are at the root of this, therefore, debt relief, subsidies , free food and free health services are not permanent solutions on the agricultural crisis  hence formation of Maharashtra Farmers' Rights Commission ( MFRC) and address the core issues in the following areas of very important

1-   1 Farm Credit Policy Reforms

 Farm Credit supply policy or focus on investment and development in the rural as well as agricultural sector for the last 30 years has been miserably failed as there is almost constant drop incompulsory direct credit to the farmers and bumper systematic increase in  institutional finance in the name of priority sector to the agriculture sector achievement by giving 80% target to  the Agri-Business and Agri-Rural sector NBFCs and micro finance companies in rural areas owned by PSU Banks and industrial houses .hence  new farm credit policy with complete revolution in present system  and under full regulatory control of MFRC and giving status of industry to agriculture is must otherwise farm loan waiver will annual activity every year and diversion of development fund in the rural and agriculture sector will result in delay and slowdown in on-going projects .

2 Regulator for  Cost of cultivation or Cost of farming

The all attempts of present NDA Govt. in last 6 years to regulate or reduce both the cost of cultivation or the cost of agriculture has been failed to frequent climate change, further degradation soil health due to   wrong chemical farming and withdrawal of subsidies moreover the heavy chemical use in agriculture has resulted in all economic, health and environmental issues, the state should try to bring agriculture into the concurrent list to regulate cost of cultivation.

3 Equal distribution of water resources as well as control of rainwater  and ground water resources.

Although the water controller is presently operating in Maharashtra, the demand for water for agriculture and other uses has increased by over three times in the last decade due to the increasing crisis of rainwater and underground water hence MFRC will address issue effectively to have rational use of water to keep development and environment intact .  MFRC will address these issues with judicial authority .

4.Control of crop pattern

The present era of globalisation and faulty import-export policies to protect all lobbies in the textile ,oil, pluses and sugar sectors the promotion of faulty cash crops and low export incentive to our perennials cash crop and massive import of cheap food, oilseeds or pulses are the root cause of collapse of rural economy and present distress in rural community resulting in farmer suicides hence selection of crops in areas of   food, oilseeds or pulses should be promoted by proper direct subsidies and quantitative restriction of import of such items and proper promotion of agrarian crisis prone areas cash crops like cotton and soybean . MFRC will address these issues with judicial authority.

5 State Minimum Support Price

Proposed Maharashtra Farmers' Rights Commission ( MFRC) should be empowered to have their own policy for fixing the Minimum Support Price (MSP ) by appointing their own panel of experts on M.A.C.P. by excising their own EXIM policies . 

5 Disaster Management System

In all the advanced nations, there is an proper insurance and risk management system that is capable of managing disasters in a untimely climate change crisis or man-made crisis and state is not involved in such risk management and huge compensation pay-outs ,the Prime Minister Fasal Bima Yojna has failed  served its purpose hence  roll of NDRF and non-functioning of SDRF has made state disaster management activity in the hand of nonprofessional and hostile govt. corrupt machinery hence drastice changes are need by MFRC .

6.Agricultural protection and agricultural storage processing system

Since the government cannot do any business and it is wrong to try it, it is necessary to have separate price stabilization funds and a corruption free system of intermediaries to maintain MSP in the open market, to maintain storage capacity with financial support to mortgage by local bank in each the village, village should produce poison-free food, pulses and oils or vegetables. Village should have proper school, health centre, and govt. administrative building and staff quarters for all employees employed in the village

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