Cost of living

We are consuming more than we produce. Agriculture has become better than ever before, but we are not producing enough for feeding ourselves, and the prices of the food items are very very high. We importing  while paying in dollars and that has affected our economy too much. Electioneering politicians are concentrating on using divisions like religion and caste for getting votes. But they can get votes by by saying how they will bring about agricultural reforms. Vegetables and fruits cost high and there is no way to control it as there is no "minimum support price" for it. Does the farmer know how much of what to grow, so that he can  provide us with that? No, Nobody told the farmer what to grow. There was once too much potatoes, and now there is scarcity. They have to be taught to observe market trends. Market intelligence is urgently needed. There is no one to fill in the gap. SO government must step in. National stability is now getting upset over price of vegetables. There is need to re-build the agricultural infrastructure. Reconstruction of agricultural society must take place from the grass roots. The small and marginal farmers who have left forming must b encouraged to grow crops again. Children of farmers have left agriculture and have moved on to other professions. And there is discontinuity in agricultural society. Many have moved to urban India and have become daily wage earners. They have lost faith in agriculture because they had experienced losses. With the input costs being high, they were not able to produce enough to make profits. The poor farmers need assistance, loans, micro-financing, and some kind of insurance. The rich rural farmer or the big land lords are making big profits. He can afford the high production costs, and seek assistance and is aware of market trends; he knows how to hoard away and sell at the time of scarcity. The rich farmer grows richer. Vegetables become costlier, onion prices have risen 300%. Now we must do something to stop further rise.