Schemes for inclusiveness or consumerism

      For far too long,calculated political skew in the  farmer's incentives / subsidies did  little to improve production or productivity. We now end up in record procurement by the Centre at high support prices with huge grain piles thereof, isolated from the supply chain and rotting away.Despite  bumper grain crops, the retail prices are soaring and thus elevating overall consumer price levels. Inclusive  schemes like MGNREGS have led to higher wages in rural areas which have risen faster than inflation since 2007-08. Fueled by job opportunities in urban construction projects,the rural -urban migrants, sent back remittances flowering a new found rural prosperity.If a third of automobiles are sold in non-urban markets, is there any wonder that rural demand for  vegetable , milk & poultry products would also shoot up. The income-trailing rural/ urban  population has still to make do with onions and
potatoes  and the  contingent price escalation of the tubers, in the overall scenario, seeds bewilderment and anger.Serious structural maladies,in the secondary agro system ,be it reach of productive technology ,storage or efficient and easy sale of produce at the farm -gate,  can not be blamed on climate or middlemen.