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here you go, this very good article from dhindu covers everything you need to know.

--> from red sea shipping crisis
--> pulp processing capacity in chitoor
--> mango biannual market cycle
--> low supply last year and high supply this year
--> mango being a perishable, once harvested goes to waste after 24 hours of loading onto the tractor


 
What a tragic waste of precious mangoes—Why is transport so expensive? It’s a serious concern, and one can only imagine how much food is wasted across the country due to this issue.
It's not really transportation, it's the lack of cold storage that is the issue. Monsoon has come, the quality of mangoes would degrade. Thus prices will plummet and farmers won't be able to justify transportation cost vs the market price of mangoes. They have to operate at thin profit margin. Procurement process is also pretty bad in India. Farm laws were supposed to fix a significant chunk of these issue. But some rascal rich farmers and buffoons following them from Punjab and Haryana decided to hurt the farmers of whole India for their own selfishness. Bhajipao & Leader ji folded like paper before them. Since then there have been very little radical reforms when it comes agriculture. Because governments fear protests.
 
It's not really transportation, it's the lack of cold storage that is the issue. Monsoon has come, the quality of mangoes would degrade. Thus prices will plummet and farmers won't be able to justify transportation cost vs the market price of mangoes. They have to operate at thin profit margin. Procurement process is also pretty bad in India. Farm laws were supposed to fix a significant chunk of these issue. But some rascal rich farmers and buffoons following them from Punjab and Haryana decided to hurt the farmers of whole India for their own selfishness. Bhajipao & Leader ji folded like paper before them. Since then there have been very little radical reforms when it comes agriculture. Because governments fear protests.

farm laws is an issue primarily for punjab, it has minimal impact elsewhere. the assumption that farmlaws are an issue in whole of India is a misnomer. every other state other than punjab liberalised wrt agri economy, punjab didn't, which is why protests were punjab centric.

rest of the country moved on, arthis in punjab did not allow punjab agri economy to liberalise. that's about it.
 
farm laws is an issue primarily for punjab, it has minimal impact elsewhere. the assumption that farmlaws are an issue in whole of India is a misnomer. every other state other than punjab liberalised wrt agri economy, punjab didn't, which is why protests were punjab centric.

rest of the country moved on, arthis in punjab did not allow punjab agri economy to liberalise. that's about it.
Only punjabi gwagon owner poor farmers protested, rest we didnt hear a chu in maharashtra or southern parts or north east or ganga belt. Do we consider only punjab as "muh annadata", i would suggest the govt to rather ban the poisonous punjabi wheat and other agri produces, mf have made 4-5 cm layer of topmost alluvial soil dead despite having so many rivers and their deposits

Most important, all the protestors were openly khalistani, not even 1% hesitation, topji should have arrested all of these and that rakesh tikait, but topji instead apologised to muh annadata
 
Only punjabi gwagon owner poor farmers protested, rest we didnt hear a chu in maharashtra or southern parts or north east or ganga belt. Do we consider only punjab as "muh annadata", i would suggest the govt to rather ban the poisonous punjabi wheat and other agri produces, mf have made 4-5 cm layer of topmost alluvial soil dead despite having so many rivers and their deposits

Most important, all the protestors were openly khalistani, not even 1% hesitation, topji should have arrested all of these and that rakesh tikait, but topji instead apologised to muh annadata
Nobody in Odisha, Bengal or even Chhattisgarh protested that much. Except a few INC cadres who had a meme protest in some corner which didn't even worked in that area, because lack of local support..
 
the khangress it celliyas and commies do rr that topji is fascist dictator, i cannot even imagine their condition when the successor takes over, i wish they all are packed into jails in andaman nicobar or sent to fight in free playstation
 
What a tragic waste of precious mangoes—Why is transport so expensive? It’s a serious concern, and one can only imagine how much food is wasted across the country due to this issue.

These kind of protests are managed by opposition parties … a farmer knows value of a produce a political farmer cant

Thats seems like an obvious media PR aka easy protest thats why we r discussing it here.

Indian farmers on an average receive highest subsidies when we look per capita income.

Indian farmers receive 4500 USD of subsidies in an year higher than even some advanced economies

Farmers all over the country do this now.

I have seen onions thrown on highways the same way, tomatoes and even milk.

I don't know which region's farmers started this trend.

It is not political, it is only a drama to show their outrage( gets media attention ), since otherwise your admin doesn't care i guess.

Really sad they get screwed over this way and they have to do all this just to get attention from politicians and babooze to resolve their issues
 
Only punjabi gwagon owner poor farmers protested, rest we didnt hear a chu in maharashtra or southern parts or north east or ganga belt. Do we consider only punjab as "muh annadata", i would suggest the govt to rather ban the poisonous punjabi wheat and other agri produces, mf have made 4-5 cm layer of topmost alluvial soil dead despite having so many rivers and their deposits

Most important, all the protestors were openly khalistani, not even 1% hesitation, topji should have arrested all of these and that rakesh tikait, but topji instead apologised to muh annadata

that's the protests and politics part of the equation.

just in case FYI, core of the issue is that, in punjab farmers are not allowed to sell their produce listed in MSP items outside of mandis. where as in other states, farmers can sell what ever where ever they want.

from an economic stand point what it does is, in punjab there is less incentive to diversify from MSP listed crops. where was in other states, market economics take over, and farmers adjust their sowing as per market demand.

as a result, one of the long term effects for punjab, because the state government kept pumping money to pay for MSP they started taxing the industry to pay for it. so industry moved to near by states, to haryana, delhi, U.P etc even tamil nadu in case of textiles. net result deindustrialisation of punjab, punjab stagnated and nearby states grew in economic parameters.

which is why we see so many people from punjab moving to gora countries.
 
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that's the protests and politics part of the equation.

just in case FYI, core of the issue is that, in punjab farmers are not allowed to sell their produce listed in MSP items outside of mandis. where as in other states, farmers can sell what ever where ever they want.

from an economic stand point what it does is, in punjab there is less incentive to diversify from MSP listed crops. where was in other states, market economics take over, and farmers adjust their sowing as per market demand.

as a result, one of the long term effects for punjab, because the state government kept pumping money to pay for MSP they started taxing the industry to pay for it. so industry moved to near by states, to haryana, delhi, U.P etc even tamil nadu in case of textiles. net result deindustrialisation of punjab, punjab stagnated and nearby states grew in economic parameters.

which is why we see so many people moving to gora countries.
sir you are truly an encylopedia of knowledge of each and every field 🫡

sir one doubt from my side, what's the difference between ngmbt/fmbt and frcv program, are they two separate indigenous procurement program or different nomenclature for same program?
 
sir you are truly an encylopedia of knowledge of each and every field 🫡

sir one doubt from my side, what's the difference between ngmbt/fmbt and frcv program, are they two separate indigenous procurement program or different nomenclature for same program?

nah mate, i stopped focussing on weapon systems configuration long time back. check with @randombully in appropriate thread.
 
here you go, this very good article from dhindu covers everything you need to know.


--> low supply last year and high supply this year
--> mango being a perishable, once harvested goes to waste after 24 hours of loading onto the tractor


first point is valid...but this adds to farmers income only as during low supply year, manogs get sold for double or triple the avg price.

Second point - have my own doubt. No body harvest perfectly ripe mangos. they are always harvested few days prior to cover for transport days and time to market.

Still, problem is we have no place to store any agriculture product. I wonder what food processing ministry is doing while industry do try to take as much as it can...
 
Second point - have my own doubt. No body harvest perfectly ripe mangos. they are always harvested few days prior to cover for transport days and time to market.

that article is focussing on pulp processing supply chain in chitoor, not the mangoes we eat in our homes. unless you have insights into that particular industry in that particular area, i suppose we have to take word of the farmer who gave that statement in that article.
Still, problem is we have no place to store any agriculture product. I wonder what food processing ministry is doing while industry do try to take as much as it can...

once market economics have been established, why do you want to gormint to intervene ?
the less the gormint intervenes in established supply chain cycles the better.

as per that article, gormint has already intervened years ago by over supplying totapuri and alphonso saplings in that area which created this glut in the first place.
 
first point is valid...but this adds to farmers income only as during low supply year, manogs get sold for double or triple the avg price.

Second point - have my own doubt. No body harvest perfectly ripe mangos. they are always harvested few days prior to cover for transport days and time to market.

Still, problem is we have no place to store any agriculture product. I wonder what food processing ministry is doing while industry do try to take as much as it can...
Mspkhori strikes again, it same thing destroying ground water levels in Punjab, you give high msp to certain crop and now every farming is growing it like crazy and you can't even reduce msp, otherwise they will chimp out.

The result is finally this, where there is no buyer and we get these news of farmers throw x crop on road.
 
that article is focussing on pulp processing supply chain in chitoor, not the mangoes we eat in our homes. unless you have insights into that particular industry in that particular area, i suppose we have to take word of the farmer who gave that statement in that article.


once market economics have been established, why do you want to gormint to intervene ?
the less the gormint intervenes in established supply chain cycles the better.

as per that article, gormint has already intervened years ago by over supplying totapuri and alphonso saplings in that area which created this glut in the first place.

Market economics can only be established when they will promote that region with industries / facilities and provide them incentives to setup facilities near the farmers .. that makes their role important . If we are expecting that pvt players will come and help farmers than we are fools... they are not doing any social service per se...moreover if there are storing facilities available, both can benefit as well and get rid of this low / high yield cycle..

secondly. govt have to ensure that a fair MSP is set and is being honored by the processing units.. there is no over sight ..
 
Mspkhori strikes again, it same thing destroying ground water levels in Punjab, you give high msp to certain crop and now every farming is growing it like crazy and you can't even reduce msp, otherwise they will chimp out.

The result is finally this, where there is no buyer and we get these news of farmers throw x crop on road.

so what is the solution ...that article clearly states that MSP is not working.. against 8re / kg MSP, they are selling at 4 re... while procurement guy also claims 4 kg subsidy from govt..

so net net he is getting mangos for free!!!
 
Market economics can only be established when they will promote that region with industries / facilities and provide them incentives to setup facilities near the farmers .. that makes their role important . If we are expecting that pvt players will come and help farmers than we are fools... they are not doing any social service per se...moreover if there are storing facilities available, both can benefit as well and get rid of this low / high yield cycle..

secondly. govt have to ensure that a fair MSP is set and is being honored by the processing units.. there is no over sight ..

out of curiosity, which state's agri economy you are using for your baseline?
 
so what is the solution ...that article clearly states that MSP is not working.. against 8re / kg MSP, they are selling at 4 re... while procurement guy also claims 4 kg subsidy from govt..

so net net he is getting mangos for free!!!
Well the problem here is there isn't demand for those mangoes, ideally farmers need to divest from it and focus on something else. Issue here is gormint is poking it's finger in both supply and demand side.
 

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