There are many many examples of these semi-literate farmers who are already doing it with some help and some all on their own.
In fact, in Maharshtra, the movement to get APMC Mandis abolished was the brainchild of one such farmer co-operative organization and they very nearly succeeded in 2018. However, nothing is black and white and I understand that. What maybe good for one may be bad for someone else. It's just my personal belief, for a very long time now, that every farmer should at least try and sell their products directly to end customers as it is completely logical that they will make better profits that way. Elimination of middlemen would result in better profits in almost every business.
No,not going to happen. I already told you many farmers from rajsthan sells onions in punjab and haryana.Some time they make profit sometime losses are huge.Like some brings vegetables from himachal and sell them in chandigarh,punjab.
First thing farmers want after cultivating crops is field empty so he can prepare it for next crop.there is lots of work to be done irrigation,ploughing,sowing etc he simply doesnt have time to sell hiss crops to consumers directly.Above all he needs money
for seeds,fertilizers,diesel and house hold things.If he goes out retailing his produce who will work in fields? and in how much time a person can sell produce of 5,10,15,20 acres depending how much land he holds.it will take years in retailing and consumers don't buys in bulk.only few crops can be sold directly like vegetables.you cant sell rice,musterd,wheat,cotton directly to consumers they have to go to mill first processed and then distributed.now a farmer grows 3,4 types of crops so should he setup 3,4 type of mills too?.sellenf few kg is one thing and selling in tons is another.maybe some farmer have less land and big family then it can work.some members working in field some selling to consumers directly and only for those who lives near cities its not possible to travel 100 km and sell crops
in kgs.what you say is just not practical it sounds good though.Many farmers around shimla export their apples.These apples are far better then what we get in market.A friend of mine near shimla used to send me some boxes of those export quality apples and i have never seen like that in market.In winters he used to come to my fields with his bees to collect some honey and used to return in march,april for pollination in his garden.Some farmers bought those mobile flour mills on tractor used to sell flours in cities but govt banned
those in name of pollution just after 6,7 months.it's not that farmers have not tried but these things are not successful.Once someone brought the idea of farming strawberries and everyone went behind that blindly next year strawberries were selling for 20rs kg on carts.
