Sridhar Raghunatha Rao 278 days ago

It is a paradox of occurrences that very frequently the commodity prices of essential items of food either skyrockets to new high or crashes to a bottom low. While traders make merry when prices increase, the grower suffers when the prices crash. In either case it is the farmer who bears the brunt such wild fluctuation of the commodity prices. It is now onion and it was chilies, tomato etc, in the past.

The main reason is total lack of any forecast guidance to the farmers when they prepare their field for next cropping. The Agricultural / Horticultural departments, at this stage has a great and important role to play by advising the farmers the cropping item they need to take up, based on the estimated demand and estimated yield of every essential commodity. This will ensure a fair balance of demand and supply, that will ensure minimum variation of any commodity price. This is the simplest and basic tool of economics. This only needs huge basic data to be gathered and compiled by the concerned departments. This will truly be a worthy exercise that should be initiated at the earliest. .