Letter to BS: Govt must bear financial burden of schemes meant for farmers

The benefits of central schemes are cornered by big landlords and corporates engaged in big food processing units

This refers to “Tackling farm distress: Income generation needs market-based solutions” (December 5), which rightly asks for a multifaceted income-generation plan, rather than MSP hikes and loan waivers to mitigate farmers’ woes. In reality, it is not that small and marginal farmers are averse to or are not adopting allied agricultural activities for income augmentation. But here, too, they get an unjust deal. For example, small farmers who rear four/five cattle get only half the price equivalent, barely covering the cost of the milk they produce to sell to big commercial chilling centres and big dairies. Simillar is the fate