What is the necessity of literacy among farmers???

Question

Why it is important?? how it helps them??

can u xplain me in detail.....please!

thanx for ur answers!!!!

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Answer 1

of course

though they have the experience due to the global warming there are change so we have to adopt our agriculture according to this or the agriculture will lead to catastrophe

beside if they are not literates then they may not use the best fertiliser or the technology in the market available

Answer 2

Not much really.

Except that the Govt in India is now allowing multinationals to purchase the lands of india & take away 75 % of them for personal use.

At this rate, the farmers of india would lose their lands fast.

Answer 3

so they can read stories to their children and help them if the child wants to pursure education; and the above reasons were true too.

Answer 4

In the country that has the most farmers in the world, educating and training farmers has got to be the most essential way of supporting agriculture. It is the prerequisite for other kinds of support for the sector.

With the country's entry into the WTO, Indian farmers are facing more psychological pressure, because they, by themselves, are not able to cope with the influx of cheap foreign farm produce. The government must step in to help them improve their educational level and ease the pressure of outside competition.

The government should consider establishing special schools for farmers under the agricultural, economic, and science colleges, where farmers can acquire farming and marketing knowledge. By equipping farmers with knowledge about technology, marketing and law, the government will raise their competitiveness and boost the long-term growth of agriculture and the rural economy.

Farmer education should be recognized as crucial to the support of agriculture. And this way of supporting agriculture is more in line with the spirit of the WTO rules.

Answer 5

Literacy is neccessity among farmers , coz if required they can fight for their rights , Education is a must for all groups . Most of the farmers facing issues and they are not aware of their rights ,  third party retailers are cheating farmers for their own benefits. To be frank farmers are very innoncent people and they are very hardworking guys. Free education should be given to all farmers , i guess there are couple of  NGO (non profit government organization)  trying to spread awareness and education among farmers.

JAI JAWAN , JAI KISAN

How can we forget that Farmer and Soldier plays a key role in the development of our country.

Varun

Answer 6

THERE is an inherent irony in the loan waiver package for small farmers in the country. Most of the small farmers are essentially foodgrain producers who are systemically taxed by denying them open market prices for their produce. This policy of taxation, a legacy of a closed economy, continues unquestioned even today. The recent wheat imports are a case in point.

The government first banned wheat exports to keep the domestic prices well below the prevailing international prices, and then to augment its stock for the public distribution system (PDS), it has imported wheat at nearly double the price of what it offers to the wheat growers in the country.

Farmers thus took a double hit: first through the export ban and then through state-sponsored dumping. Producers of no other commodity in the country have faced such ill treatment.

The problem is systemic and two aspects of the PDS are responsible for this. First, the necessity of largescale procurement of grains by the state makes anti-farmer policies inevitable. The enormous inefficiencies in the operation of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) compel the government to suppress domestic prices so that FCI's procurement cost is affordable. Government does it through a ban on exports or state-sponsored dumping.

Second, the nature of government involvement makes the PDS inevitably corrupt, leaving the majority of the poor deprived of any food security cover. What more expedient way is there to appear to be working in the interests of the poor than to lower the prices that farmers receive?

Answer 7

They is got to be more literate than U think.   In understanding:

Mechanics, welding, machining: how to run the equipment and to keep equipment running out in the middle of a field, to be able to "haywire together" a working replacement of a broken part until it can be properly be fixed...,

   Climatology:  they do not rely on the "weathermans weather reporting(which many times are 100% wrong)

   Biology:  What is growing naturally in the area and what is a relative to that plant would probably do well too...

   Chemistry:  Are the soil conditions right, or does it require a boost in some nutrient and how much?

   A knowledge of what certain plants require, and what benefit they leave behind if plowed under helps alot in reduction of chemical fertilizers over natural one(clover/alfapha puts nitrogen back into the soil)...as most plants remove it, so knowing the rate of removalis important for crop rotation.

   What insecticides/pesticides work and how they work and how dangerous the chemical is to health.

    Knowledge with numbers - mixtures in liquid measure, dry measure, metric measure and combining them in correct proportions.

    Financial figuring.  No accountants here. Dealing with bankers and loans and grants and subsidies ( if there is any).......

So that is a general literacy requirement for growing crops.

       Does the farmer have animals?  

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Animal husbandry:

Then he has to deal with  employees, with a wife and family....

  In general, he has to be sensitive to the market and the trends and plant accordingly (and forecast a year or two ahead)

Answer 8

Well, personally I never teach my slaves how to read and write.  For fear they might be exposed to ideas that could cause them to revolt or try and otherwise change their circumstances.

Answer 9

being able to read and follow direction on any number of products Such as fertilizer or pesticides.  It is also helpful when applying for loans or government subsidy programs.

Answer 10

Its very important of farmers being literate, since they r prone to be cheated bcos of their illiteracy, not only education will enable them to know their needs, but also make them sensible towards life in a better way.hence i feel its very neccessary