Why are the rural people so poor

Agriculture has made the Indian farmer poorer now than ever before. In 2011,there were 144 million agricultural labourers who have lost their farm lands because of economic loss due to farming. Now they have become land less agricultural labourers who try to eek out a way of life by working in others farms. In the year,2001 there were only 107 million agricultural labourers. That is 37 million marginal farmers have lost their lands and become labourers.
 Why does one pursue agriculture? Manufacturing sector can provide employment till there is a demand for a specific product. As so as saturation point is struck, there is no longer a need for that product; and people do not buy it. Then the manufacturing sector shuts down and the workers are jobless once again. Where as in agriculture there is always need for some kind of food. Sometimes cereals some times vegetables and sometimes fruits. This inspires the farmer to farm. The profits will come when he sells his produce. There is overproduction of grains for the last few years, as all the farmers wanted to benefit from high profits. But when more and more farmers produced wheat and rice, demand for these diminished. There is too much rice and wheat, much much more than we can consume. We have procured what farmers had produced at minimum support price.  We have only 53 million tonne capacity, rest is stored in open goddown(granaries). Even if we export ten to fifteen million tonnes, we will have 20% more for which we have to find consumers.Diversification is a solution. Before the Farmer can diversify, he has incurred losses and cannot support himself. So he sells his land and becomes a landless labour. We must reach out to our farmers and teach them to farm that item which we need only. This kharif season more than 60 lakh hectares were sown. Rice will be grown in only 2.44 hectares, cotton in 9.35 hectares, sugarcane in 41.24 hectares and jute in 7.79 hectares..