I am unable to get your logic. When Rs 1000 crore banana is exported, It is a well come step and it should happen in a larger way. Now you are finding the faults with that as well. If farmers has any other issues (And they have many), they should be addressed. How the export of 1000 crore of banana comes in way that you have to do arguments to counter it. You seem to be mixing different issues very badly.
We must export the sugar so that it does not the price does not fall. If price falls, farmers will not get the advantage of their hard work and higher production.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%,
Sugar production across India rises 16%; Maharashtra, UP clock similar output figures
Releasing the production figures, Isma said mills in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest sugar-producing state, have produced 105.62 lakh tonne of sugar till April 2021, which is 10.90 lakh tonne lower than 116.52 lakh tonne achieved by them last year on the corresponding date.www.financialexpress.com
You just cant complete in international market of Sugar. Brazil produces more sugar than us and sell much cheaper. Unless we give it on subsidy to other players we cant export high amount of it.
What I've written in first post and later on too, sales don't translate into income and prosperity for small scale farmers due to middlemen. You are expecting improvement in condition of rural farmers since exports of fruits are going up.
Anyone even with a basic economic understanding knows it. These things are only getting political attention; nothing more nothing less. Also correct me if I am wrong but as per the latest IMF projections if real growth and inflation are added then they have not actually surpassed India's gdp per capita even on nominal terms. The projection under discussion was an old one. Also BD's higher gni per capita is probably a coincidental anomaly which will not last long. Even there I doubt NSO data. As per their projections India's gni per capita is about $1950 ( pretty close I do not remember the actual data ) roughly equal to our nominal gdp per capita. Now this sounds absurd. For countries like India gni per capita should be considerably higher than gdp per capita. For instance BD even with a lower per capita nominal gdp is claiming to have a per capita gni of $2200. If one goes by the world bank website as of 1st July, 2019 India's gni (measured by Atlas method) per capita was way higher than that of BD. I know a lot of disruptions happened after that but this piece of data does not feel right; like something is off.
But it shows that at least farmers are able to sell in this pandemic.
It won't make them prosper anyway. Unless small farmers have a district wise corporative system to share technology and raise funds or something like that, small scale farming can never be an efficient machine and will run on subsidies and funds from government. It's a decade away at least.
a bit more detail..
Whatever I had to explain, I have done it. I do not want to repeat those things again. Just check how large food grain export in Vajpayee ji's time helped farmers. Closed from my side.
Growth in his era were on account of improved infrastructure, logistics supply lines and adoption of mechanical methods due to increase in households income. Improved exports were result of it, not a cause.
Relevant recent article to above claim
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I specifically mentioned Food grain export and its benefits to farmers if you can read it.
anyone who compares kangladesh and Indian economy and tries to prove how they are going great...
Middlemen do extract their pound of flesh but its not exhorbitant in market driven commodities. @HariPrasad-1 is correct to an extent. Growth in agri trade, exports etc do support farmers also due to trickle down effect of economic cycle. For ex, arthiyas make good amount in FCI procurements bcuz its a monopolistic trade with the buyer FCI, having fixed price at MSP with an open house declared on purchase quantity. Since model is lopsided towards buyer they can creat windfall gains. But in case where trade is market driven suvh as export of foodgrains, fruits etc the middlemen cannot make windfall gains so easily. Export usually requires a particular grade/variety or quality parameters to be fulfilled. The farmers sell selected produce at a higher price than an average or below average quality produce which is not export worthy. Sometimes these middlemen take advance orders and create a pool of farmers who grow the crop as per desired quality level. So in general the fruits of exports are passed onto farmers to some extent. And in cases farmers form their own marketing channel the gains are multifold. A farmer whose crop was bought for export market would have fetched him a better price than the leftover produce he would have decided to sell in local market.
