Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Small & Marginal Farmers , Who are They ?

It is very interesting to find out how the Government classifies small & marginal farmers.
You will find many a wealthy Landlord in these classified Lists to avail electricity bill waiverls and bank loan waierls.The corrupt Revenue Official in any Taluqa Office will give any certificate of Holding you require to get a bank loan after receiving his payment under the table.Banks will give loans after they receive their under the table payments.
When the Govt.orders waivers it is the wealthy farmers who scoop up the benefit and not the poor suicide prone real small time farmer.
If you want to weed out unsocial elements and cheaters from the genuine farmers list,you need an International Agency like the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the U N.
No Indian Agency can be trusted for the simple reason,that any Indian Agency,whether non-governmental or governmental is deeply entrenched in corruption and deceit.
A few years ago ,before the Banks liberalised vehicle loans,rural and urban citizens of this Mahan Country raised crop loans on false documents and bought two wheelers,like Bajaj Chetaks.
Just an example to illustrate my point on how honest or sincere an average Indian Citizen is.

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