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Can privatizing agriculture solve marketing problems?

Created by : Namrata Pathak, Accounts Manager, American Express  | 11 25 2010 07:41:00 +0000
Industry : Public Sector/GovernmentFunctional Area : Business Models(Strategy & Execution)
Keywords : privatization privatization of agriculture marketing privatization of agriculture agricultural problems
Activity:  296 views;  last activity : 12 23 2010 10:00:50 +0000

Contrary to popular opinion, the real crisis in Indian agriculture does not stem from poor farming practices, but because of a deficient marketing, supply and distribution chain in the country.  So can privatizing agriculture solve marketing problems?

  
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The land is in the hands of the farmers. What does privatization mean? Does it mean removing the ownership from the farmers and creating companies? What we need is the removal of middle men or making the process of harvest to market very transperant. We need to have better storage facilities. We cannot let the market decide the cost of the produce as only the rich would hoard it. So the answer does not lie in "Privatizing".
By Prasad S Shetty, Bureau IT Administration, CIBIL  11 25 2010 14:36:04 +0000
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it is only 70% chance for success and remain parts are under uncertainty!!!!!!!!!!
By aniruddha kumar mishra Mishra, MBA/PGDM student, UPTU Lucknow  | 12 23 2010 10:00:50 +0000
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Well privatizing in any field can at least less the marketing problem and with the they will disappear. There is a big difference between Govt. Venture and Private concern. They are much more think about quality and service when they compete with other.
By Nitin Mehra, Software Developer, ROBOMAN MICROSYSTEMS  | 11 28 2010 08:54:32 +0000
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But 100% goal cannot achieve, as private sector is purely profit oriented
By subash kunju, Project Manager, BATCO Telecom  | 11 28 2010 05:28:43 +0000
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Yes, it will help. But one need to see that there are no middlemen involved in it's trading.
By shashi kunnath, Managing Director, Sha Kun Enterprises  | 11 26 2010 05:49:46 +0000
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This It's the only way it could work. Public property does not mean the cropland is in the hand of farmers. Far otherwise. The real owner (if such a social pattern had been put into effect ) is actually the state what means the propagation of bureaucracy, inefficiency and irresponsibility. Recall former communist USSR was an importer while today's Ukraine taken alone is a great food exporter.
By Dragan Radulovic, Founder & CEO  | 11 25 2010 16:58:38 +0000
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s.it's right ya,agriculture is a back bone of a country.
By satishkumar.kudikala , B.Tech/B.E. in INDIA JNTU university student, MBA in London School of Business Management,pursing  | 11 25 2010 15:32:40 +0000
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yaa it will help increasing the yeild
By Shobhit Agrawal, System Engineer , Infosys Technologies  | 11 25 2010 14:14:53 +0000
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Its not about privatizing or making it public , its if there is a justifiable remuneration for an effort put in , then a system will work or in a long run such system will collapse. Our government institutions are the best example. Now they have realized the mistake and they are making the necessary changes though its a bit late for the same.
By Joe Antony, Retail Sales and Marketing, JSW Steel Limited  | 11 25 2010 10:56:58 +0000
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yes....A lot of confusion exists between central and state policies on crop produce. “Why do we need a Supreme Court intervention to distribute food to the hungry poor, when intellectuals are harping on achieving food security? In my opinion private entrepreneurs can do a better job in solving the marketing problem than the present government officials

Even after several years, our farmers still send their produce to the city in outdated methods. They use bags, sacks, bundles to define their produce and consumers deal in ‘kg', units and grams to purchase. Different products are defined in different weight ranges, for example onions in 50 kg bags, potatoes in 44 kg, tomatoes in 15 kg crates, carrot in 80 kg. Why this difference? so we really need privatization of Agriculture to solve the marketing problems..
By Namrata Pathak, Accounts Manager, American Express  | 11 25 2010 07:41:00 +0000
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There will be hike in rates!
By Vignesh Nadar, Remedy Administrator, BMC Software  | 11 26 2010 15:22:09 +0000
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NO. it wont solve the problem. The government should really help the poor formers to market their product efficiently without any middlemen intervention. formers should me educated properly to market their products so they can earn more profit.
By Raja , Graphic/Web Designer, Sryas Software Pvt ltd  | 11 26 2010 07:13:24 +0000
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If it happens, then it will be a mess. Ordinary/ common man have to suffer more over price issue because it have no control for hiking the price.
By SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 11 26 2010 06:09:34 +0000
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Agriculture is already private, are you referring to corpotarization?, Corpotarization destroyed agriculute in US midwest region, its doing now same in Brazil. The circle of big corporations from selling patented seeds ,fertilizers to playing role of middlemen for distribution is not sustainable, add to that the debt trap.This will replace old middlemen with new corporate middlemen.Farmers will again not get fair price for their produce.What's needed is to create collaborative public private storage and distribution networks for farm produce.
By Abhijit Anand Prabhudan, Admin/Facilities Manager, Ca*****  | 11 25 2010 17:09:08 +0000
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I am totally agree with Mr. Prasad S Shetty's argument. The great issue in agriculture market is middlemen and the proper storage facilities. In one of the writing of Amerthia Sen, he is telling that, when there was a flood situation in west bengal so many people don't have the food even when there are plenty of food grains available in the go-downs. The reason is the people don't have the money to buy it. So, as per his statement, there is no deficit of supply of food grains in India, but there is no proper way of storage and supply of the same in India. Privatization may create a picture of better marketing but it will increase the price of those commodities. Already it is now reached the moon.


By Vijaya Kumar Subb Rao, SAP Consultant, Infiniti consulting  | 11 25 2010 16:16:27 +0000
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HEY This is wrong to privatizing agriculture. We should be try to understand govermant to make great polices for farmers.
By VIKAS DAHIYA, BCA student, MDU ROHTAK  | 11 25 2010 16:11:25 +0000
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no it wont solve bcoz if it get private then the cost of living wil get high
By shah rukh, B.Tech/B.E. student, MJCET  | 11 25 2010 15:45:27 +0000
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