Farm workers produce food and raw materials for industry. They are the lowest paid and under employed category of workers. Even building workers are better paid, though they too have no security of employment.Those petty peasants who do manual work are also farm workers.
Manufacturers fix the price of their products. You do not bargain while buying a cake of soap. But when there is a glut in production of tomatoes, onions etc. the merchants take advantage of the law of supply and demand. The prices come down and farmers are forced to sell at throw away price. On the other hand, when there is shortage, farmers cannot withhold their products, because they have no storage facility.
Organising cooperatives is the only way out. In Gujarat, farmers of bananas have their own ships to carry it to Europe where there is demand.
Sugar cane producers are at the mercy of manufacturers; so they should own the sugar factories.
In the villages, vegetable outlets should be owned by farmers, so that it can be bought and sold at fixed prices.
This is the only way out for farmers. Suicide by farmers can be avoided, if loans are given only to cooperative of farmers.
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