Thread by @saket71

#KisanKrantiYatra When the sweet voices @_YogendraYadav comes on TV fishing in troubled water, it is time to sift through some data on Farmers’ crisis story.
Agriculture contributes to 13.7% to the GDP of #India.

Average rate of #Farmer suicide in #India is 13 per 100,000. In Russia it is 18.2, Japan is 20.1, US is 12.6, Australia is 12.5 #KisanKrantiYatra

Farmer suicide in 2016 was 11370. This was 10% less than farming sector deaths in 2014.

The suicide rate in farming sector, though much publicised, is at 4.5 per lakh in agricultural sector, much less than the national suicide average of 10.6 per lakh of population and 12.5 in non-agricultural segment. The other segments pay taxes which fund loan waivers

Unfortunately State Largesse brings no benefit to the Farmer of Renu or Premchand. It is the hukkah-smoking, fortuner-driving farmer with son in Canada who corners the state subsidies, as cash starved state can’t offer free education or health services to all including farmers

MS Swaminathan Commission much touted by people like @_YogendraYadav and @RahulGandhi was constituted in November 2004, submitted final report in 2006, UPA ruled for 8 years since. #KisanKrantiYatra

The 10% of farmers held more than 50% of arable land in India. Land reforms was one of the Primary recommendation of Swaminathan Commission. Land reforms was also at heart of Naxal movement started by atrocities of a Congress landlord in Naxalbari.

Swaminathan Commission also spoke of irrigation reforms. One major cause of farmer distress being dependence on Monsoon. Micro Irrigation scheme tries to resolve this.
Target for 2015-16 was 500k acres, @narendramodi govt did 572k, in 2016-17, it was 800k, and Actual was 837k

The target for 2017-18 is covering 1.2 million hectares. Already 926k@hectares have been covered