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IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
Consequnces
· Over a relatively long period domestic demand for rice has remained below domestic availability, even after taking rising export ratios into account.
· This is surprising, because procurement introduces an ‘exogenous’ player in the form of the government into the market.
· domestic demand for rice has remained below domestic availability, despite the rising share of exports to domestic production. This subdued demand hits farmers, who find cultivation increasingly unviable despite rising rice exports.
· So the liberalisation of the rice trade seems to have benefited only one section, the merchant capitalists, and not the actual producers or consumers.
· Further India not only exports rice at a better price but also huge amount of water, thus acting as one of the main reasons for water scarcity, soil salinization, declining of ground water levelin India.
· Crop diversification process also impacted due to the incentive schemes offered for the export of rice, resulting in changing cropping pattern, following the dominance of mono-cropping.
· India's top exporter of rice comes at a time where the effects of climate change are taking a toll on the lives of farmers; conservation of water plays crucial role in mitigation and adaptation of climate change.
· Moreover Government of India's increasing MSP for Rice mainly helps large farmer and landholders, very little incentive for peasents and landless labours.
· Need of the hour is to diversify the sowing of crops and reducing the export of rice progressively.
Sandeep 5 years
Kindly review
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try including about the environmental, social consequences etc.
Keep Writing.
RABINSON 5 years
Sir,
Is it necessary to write conclusion for all questions?While discussing variety of points what can be the conclusion?
IAS Parliament 5 years
When the question is opinion based or demands your point of view, sum up opinion and present it as a conclusion. Otherwise, it is not mandatory. Keep Writing.
