Just eliminate farm subsidies altogther. The only subsidy should be given to rural industrial parks to employ these farmers and upskill them. $1 billion can easily create a 1000 hectare industrial park housing enough sheds/labour intensive factories to employ at least 1 lakh people directly or indirectly. At least now they will have a stable income of 10k a month minimum
What kind of industrial park ?
labour intensive factories - too expensive and capitalist/industrialist choose less labour and automation and robots. I read somewhere samsung factory giving 7k per month. trade union - deal breaker.
farm subsidy is less burden than giving jobs to 1 lakh people in gov industrial park on farm land.
First stop all benefits ==== not going to happen.
Bring advanced farming tech/method ===== gov low on cash.
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build a industrial parks in useless area, and educate and give jobs to that lakh people directly or indirectly.
No workers, no farming and farming land become another plot for housing and business.
Now one problem is== gov force to import food/farm items similar to petroleum.
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