Farm populations must be shielded from the corona virus to the degree conceivable by testing and rehearsing social removing..
Farmers ought to have continued access to markets. This can be a blend of private markets and government acquisition.
As lockdown measures have expanded, request has ascended for home conveyance of food supplies and E-trade. This pattern ought to be empowered and advanced.
The government must promote trade by avoiding export bans and import restrictions in order to stabilize the economy.
Farmers ought to be boosted to move away from cash crops (say, for a year or somewhere in the vicinity) and towards food crops. "Food crops" generally comprise of grains, beats, oats, vegetables (counting dried beans), seeds and nuts, vegetables, herbs and flavors, and so on.
A bending over of minimum support price (MSP) for a portion of these can permit farmers across various states to proximately move their development design towards food-based harvests which can help in tending to the bigger food frailty worry for the vast majority of those living in urban areas, or, in rustic territories with constrained food supplies, and, simultaneously, offer better costs to farmers in neighborhoods food crops.
Setting up a mobile food van can be considered for direct procurement of a diverse food variety from farmers belonging to various states.
Some of the ways to address this urgent need is to use social safety nets widely to stabilize their lives with food and cash. The governments should quickly respond to the crisis and announced a relief package, which includes food and cash transfers.
There are around 40-50 million occasional transient laborers in India. As of late, worldwide media have communicated pictures of a huge number of migrant laborers from a few states walking for a significant distance and miles on roadways; some strolled in excess of 1000 kilometres to come back to their home towns. They ought to be given both cash transfers and nutritious food.
In the midst of the ebb and flow strains, good seeds and other farm supplies must arrive to farmers in an ideal opportunity for kharif season.
Robotized machines ought to be presented for the planting of seeds which need just a machine driver for for sowing and harvesting.
Indigenous assembling of computerized machines ought to be elevated by the governments to chop down the general expense.
Sponsorship ought to be given to the producers of such machines with the goal that farmers can get them at conservative costs.
Cultivating Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), utilizing hereditary building is another method of adding to food and nourishment benefits while boosting rural creation other than diminishing a post-harvest misfortune.
Synchronized endeavours ought to be made for protection practices, for example, crop diversification, zero soil culturing
An expansion in the accessibility of nano supplements to help crop creation will be an additional bit of leeway.
Updating rural tasks routinely is fundamental. Up and down the gracefully chain, promoting and authoritative advancements are progressively significant.
In this manner, there is a need to comprehend the particular job of government and private division in fortifying horticulture and encouraging the reception of progressively percipient practices at the farm and agro-food firm level.
INSPIRATION
Most migrant workers in cities tend to come from rural farming families. Because of a significant disruption of supply chains due to the lockdown, seen at an intra- and inter-state level, farmers have been stuck with a larger amount of perishables like milk, fruits and vegetables.
Despite some relaxation for agrarian activity to be restored, farmers are still finding it difficult to take the produce to the city-markets and get a good price. If most of their produce stays within villages and remains largely unsold, food prices will continue to fall and force most of these farming families into destitution.
With the current COVID19 pandemic, lockdown was issued in various parts of the world leaving migrant workers with no other option but to return to their villages. There are reports of people in overflowing buses, in the back of trucks and for some left with no other option, the long journey home was by foot. To get to the villages even in good times is difficult, with fear of illness and a lockdown the trip home is nothing short of a nightmare. Lack of awareness of the importance of hand washing, lack of water even if they knew the importance, lack of access to medical facilities and finally the economic distress to daily wage workers makes the pandemic orders of magnitude more difficult to deal with for migrant workers.
DATA
The data from https://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/gldas/vegetation-parameters helped in identifying the the different kind of vegetation and what can be done for them and the data from http://www.fao.org/home/en/ ,https://www.wfp.org/ helped me understanding the conditions of crops and the farmers and what kind of resources can be used.
CHALLENGES
The main challenge that the government would face is the cash crunch. The government has to revive the economy by supporting all the sections of the society and in this condition acquiring land and starting the production of automated machinery for farming can be quite a challenge. Educating the large population of farmers about the use of these automated machinery and the efficient use of nano supplements along with encouraging them to shift to food crops is not an easy task. Also, another challenge is to instill a trust in the mind of the producer and consumer if the home delivery of crops is allowed along with the E-trade.
The main challenge that I faced is the direct ground touch with the farmers. Being born and raised in an urban household we can only imagine and sympathize with them. But right now they don't need our sympathy but something concrete has to be done for them so that the one's who feed us themselves don't go hungry to bed at night!
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