Landless farmers are not farmers, they are freelance laborers. They work in farms during sowing and harvesting season, and other times they work odd jobs. They will get absorbed in the manufacturing sector soon.
The farmers who have land are not doing it efficiently. They would rather dump their produce to create artificial scarcity to force the middle class to pay more, than actually investing in value addition and commanding better prices. They have a problem when they under produce, and they have a problem when they overproduce. Their actions are not in co-ordination with the gormint but they want others to bail out their bad loans and pay higher price for their produce.
When they produce more, they do this..
They could have easily set up a co-operative trust and applied for the tools to do value addition. Smart farmers have started taking
Laghu Udyog loans to convert their produce into jams and pickles. It doesn't require a big industrial setup to chop up veggies and pour salt and sugar and bottle it up.
If they just aspire to sell their raw material at the rate of gold, the distress will continue. Those who were acting in good faith did take benefit of Modi's initiatives for scientific farming, preservation, packaging and value addition. They even received FSSAI certification and started selling them.
Those who were rigid minded are continuing the 'farmer distress' narrative in the hope that it will become an election issue and get them subsidies.
They are these type of "poor farmers"..
They are doing it out of
charbi, nothing else. Eventually they will discover that the gormint will not give in to their tantrums and they will have to quit farming and sell their land to someone who wants to pursue agriculture seriously.