Middlemen Biqqest Obstacle in Increasinq Farmers Income
Despite implementing plans for increasing farmers income, the government is unable to provide the benefits to farmers as middlemen take away a major chunk of profits.
Punjab farmers complain that their income has declined due to shifting from paddy to other crops.
In Punjab there is no provision for sale of crops other than paddy and wheat.
As a result, farmers are forced to sell the produce to middlemen at low prices.
What it does
The biggest obstacle in increasing farmers income in India are the profiteering middlemen.
Commission agents, traders and wholesalers take a major chunk of profit
from farmers produce. This leaves very little for the farmers.
India's farmers are still on a losing side even after several
efforts taken by the government.
Challenges we ran into
The biggest hurdle was to make the site convenient for farmers since majority of the farmers are technologically inefficient. This was solved by making the site multilingual and providing drop-down for each category for the farmers.
The second problem was to validate the harvesting date entered by the farmers. This was solved by taking three factors into consideration, first being crop production statistics of every state, then crop period, location and adding them into database.
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