Summary:

A practical and actionable solution to the Agriculture and Farmer problem.

1. Agriculture faces the stress of smaller and uneconomical land holdings and of ever growing demands, from the ever growing population dependent on each acre, for food grains, proteins and fruits etc. the tiny farm land holdings, increased costs and scarcity of labour and low revenues all leading to ever increasing farmer distress and even to farmer suicides. 
2. Given the aspirations of the youth and opportunities for them elsewhere, and the Government schemes for labourers, there is, and will increasingly be, an acute shortage of agricultural labour. Hence, the necessity for industrialization / mechanization of farms.
3. We therefore need to take up farm land pooling into Corporations ensuring keeping the ownership amongst to the locals, to allow for mechanization and to avail the benefits of economies of scale, thereby allowing the farmer the same benefits he was earlier having as a owner, only now as a share holder in a larger and more viable farm, and on which he can work, if he so desires.
4. The Government should either subsidize or organize long term borrowings for such Corporate farms to allow them to undertake the initial costs for leveling and contouring the land and of creation of rain water storage facilities etc. The Government should also, make necessary changes in the taxation, tenancy and land ceiling laws.
5. The Government should also, aim at Providing Urban Amenities in Rural areas as President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam had called for. This would greatly encourage off-farm employment in the rural areas in various MSME’s that will be needed to meet the maintenance and operational needs of the Corporate Farms, and will also, provide other employment to the rural youth and thereby greatly reduce emigration and encourage keeping the families together even as fewer of them actually work on the farm itself.

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