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So no, sales won't bring them lot of money as they have to invest.

No but it has already happened. 1000 Crore banana is exported. My post was in response to that post. If we are unable to purchase these agriculture stuff from farmers, they have to sometime discard it without selling. Recently, I saw a video of a farmer who destroyed his tomatoes as the price of the same was not enough to meet the transportation cost.
 
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Wow... This data speaks for itself .

Indian railway electrification
1947 to 2014 - 21,191 km electrified
2014 to 2019 - 18,675 km electrified

Now this brings in a lots of profit as the running of train is way cheaper than the running train on diesel. Moreover, we have to import Crude oil while we can produce Electricity through Solar or Wind power as well.
 

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On the ethanol front,
The country, on an average, has achieved a blending percentage of 7.36%, while 11 major states like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat and Himanchal Pradesh have achieved even higher blending percentage of up to 10%,
 

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If we are unable to purchase these agriculture stuff from farmers, they have to sometime discard it without selling. Recently, I saw a video of a farmer who destroyed his tomatoes as the price of the same was not enough to meet the transportation cost.
The point you are not getting. No they (needy farmer aren't exporting their crops directly, there are middlemen.
They destroying their crops because of lack of sales in some seasons is a different concern. But pulling small farmers out of poverty on the basis of their small scale farming is impractical because of nearly no profit, sometimes high losses and uncertainty of output.

There is a reason why world urbanised and agriculture was corporatised.
 

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The point you are not getting. No they (needy farmer aren't exporting their crops directly, there are middlemen.
They destroying their crops because of lack of sales in some seasons is a different concern. But pulling small farmers out of poverty on the basis of their small scale farming
is impractical because of nearly no profit, sometimes high losses and uncertainty of output.

There is a reason why world urbanised and agriculture was corporatised.
This is where FPO(Farmer Producer Organization) comes in where small farmers can open their own company and sell their produce collectively and govt registers the company, with all investing farmer having some part of stake in the organization and if the organization performs good government also supports it to expand by giving grant with other perks.

The theory is like the farmers selling their produce collectively should get better results less exploitation and also able to procure seeds and pesticides at some discounted rates.

There have renewed the scheme and expanded it to the whole country by bringing down the criteria so it should help small farmers now if implemented correctly.
 

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