Indian Agriculture Industry; 

Orphaned by Congress, adopted by BJP

“Everything else can wait, but not the Agriculture”! These were the words of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first PM, when India got independence and the priorities were being decided by his team of Ministers and Advisors. The newly liberated independent state of India demanded the focus and concern, as agriculture was the prime revenue basis for India. India then, was dependent on Agriculture, its largest resource and factually maximum population was living in the rural areas.

Paradoxically, all these sixty five odd years of Congress and UPA rule, saw Indian National Congress and its leaders progressing, UPA progressing, supporters progressing, the Gandhi Dynasty progressing, Corruption progressing, Ant-nationalism progressing, proximity to failures progressing, accumulating wealth and fortune in India and abroad, everything progressing but except the Agriculture Industry, Indian Farmers and its families.

The Congress focus digressed from Agriculture Supremacy to Self-wealth creation, leaving India in forlorn and a state of lurch. As if the entire nation were children of the dark and let live in oblivion. Be it Nehru or Indira, or Rajiv and finally into the hands of Sonia through her pigeon puppet, Man Mohan Singh, all abandoning the real growth. With such vast agricultural land available and the farmers ever ready to put their all efforts, the GDP centric agriculture industry took a battering in the hands of Congress, the stepparents.  it was nothing less then of abandoning and leaving the industry and farmers as orphans. 

Agriculture in India has its glorious historical past right from 1800 BC till date. Be it the Bronze age, the Aryan period from 1800 BC to 1600 BC,  the Vedic period dating from 1560 BC to 600 BC, the Buddhist Period-6^th Century BC, the Magadha Period-4th Century BC, the Asoka Period, 1^st Century BC to 2^nd Century AD, the Gupta Period-300 AD to 500 AD (the Golden Age), Harshvardhana Empire from 606 AD to 647 AD. All rulers gave utmost care to Agriculture industry, its reforms, development and investments. Even during the Muslim Period from 1206 AD to 1761 AD, land revenue systems were improved, issues of cultivators were resolved carefully, assistance of different domains were provided in large, and farmers had a happy and satisfactory living. Lot of problems and local issues confronted farmers during the British period from 1757 AD to 1947 AD. The Free India had lot of promise for Farmers, but the Free India was the start of nightmare for Indian Farmers and the entire Indian Agriculture Industry.

Thanks to Congress and UPA rule, the economic contribution of Agriculture Industry to GDP steadily declined with the country’s broad based economic growth from 1947 to 2014. Even as on date, Agriculture on a demographic scale, is still the broadest economic sector, having significant base in India’s socio-economic spectrum. It was like the Agriculture Industry and the Farmers community, were all left orphaned by stepparents: the INC and Nehru dynasty.

Prof (Dr) Neeran Gautam