Doubling farmer’s income is the core dream of new India, as it occupies almost 60% of the workforce directly or indirectly but comprises only 14% of GDP. While the services sector contributed 55% of India’s Gross Value Added at the current price in Q1 2018–19 and employed 28.6% of the total population. This shows the clear gap between implementing policies, regulations and planning.
In every election, farmer’s and their problems are core prospect. Over nine years to March 2017, the central and state governments waived Rs 88,988 crore ($13.9 billion) in loans to 48.6 million farmers. Loan waivers are beneficial to farmers for short time by it impacts the country economy in the long run.
What causes Agriculture Crisis?
Unati believes creating opportunities for farmers and involved stakeholders can solve this problem to certain levels. Indian agricultural ecosystem highly lags in data and technological implication. Agriculture supply chain suffers from extreme fragmentation leading to poor discovery, weak predictability, and high volatility impacting the bottom-line and enhancing risks. Farmers are push to sell what they produce in farm resulting in unfair prices.
Above problems cause high stress, burden and regular losses to farmers. 330,000 farmers have committed suicide in last 22 years i.e 33/day. What we need today is massive investment in the agriculture sector — and, simultaneously, economic capacity in the hands of farmers. We need to create opportunities by organizing supply chain, by precise farming, fair trading, connecting stakeholders to reliable and efficient carriers. India needs an integrated marketplace for agriculture.
Unati. is an Agri supply marketplace, which enable commodity seller and buyer to trade, transport and access other market services.
Commodity management platform which integrates all stakeholders i.e farmers, traders, processor, industries, storage and independent carriers on a single digital platform.
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