When drought hit the Midwest during the Great Depression, the soil turned into dust. Farmers in this region couldn’t grow crops because there wasn’t enough water. To make matters worse, great dust storms formed in the area covering everything in dust. Dust got everywhere and made life very difficult.

The factors that contributed to farmer’s difficulties in the 1920s to 1930s were the severe drought and the strong winds that destroyed their crops so they were unable to pay their debts. To help pay for food some children had to drop out of school and take very low paying jobs.

Poor farmers during this period began to either sell their farms or abandon sharecropping, by moving to cities in search of better economic opportunities. It would take a long struggle, but as the decade began to close American produce prices and demand were on their way to prewar levels.

There were tremendous economic difficulties associated with Western farm life. First and foremost was overproduction. Because the amount of land under cultivation increased dramatically and new farming techniques produced greater and greater yields, the food market became so flooded with goods that prices fell sharply.

Indeed, at the close of the century of greatest agricultural expansion, the dilemma of the farmer had become a major problem. Several basic factors were involved-soil exhaustion, the vagaries of nature, overproduction of staple crops, decline in self-sufficiency, and lack of adequate legislative protection and aid.

After the Civil War, drought, plagues of grasshoppers, boll weevils, rising costs, falling prices, and high interest rates made it increasingly difficult to make a living as a farmer.

What kind of problems do farmers face?

• Cope with climate change, soil erosion and biodiversity loss.
• Satisfy consumers’ changing tastes and expectations.
• Meet rising demand for more food of higher quality.
• Invest in farm productivity.
• Adopt and learn new technologies.
• Stay resilient against global economic factors.

Let’s discuss some of the main issues farmers face in India and the best possible solutions….Possible Solutions to These Problems:

1. Multiple Crops.
2. Modernisation in Agriculture.
3. Farmers’ Education is Vital.
4. The Requirement for Crop Insurance.
5. Better Water Management.

To gain a clearer perspective of the scale of challenge, here are ten issues that are currently facing modern farmers:

• Climate change.
• The ongoing trade war between the United States and China.
• Rapidly depleting reserves of freshwater around the world.
• The looming food crisis.
• Economic insecurity in the United States.

[1] For farmers growing crops for biofuels or cotton and other fibers, sharp reductions in demand for fuel and clothing tanked prices for their goods, leaving business plans in tatters. [2] Rising unemployment rates and tightening household budgets continue to constrict food consumption and the prices farmers receive.

Farmers’ Rights consist of the customary rights of farmers to save, use, exchange and sell farm-saved seed and propagating material, their rights to be recognized, rewarded and supported for their contribution to the global pool of genetic resources as well as to the development of commercial varieties of plants, and …

A long-standing demand of farmers that intermediaries’ dominance from the market should be removed has been fulfilled by the new laws. But the protesting farmers demand that the role of middlemen in the market should not be reduced and no punitive action should be taken against them.

The 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protest is an ongoing protest against three farm acts which were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. As of 21 March 2021, according to Haryana Police, there are around 40,000 committed protestors sitting at Singhu and Tikri at the Delhi border.

Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at several Delhi border points since 26 November last year, demanding a repeal of three farm laws — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement …

The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 The Essential Commodities(Amendment) Act, 2020 — are the three key legislations passed by Parliament in September 2020.

Over the next two decades, state governments set up large mandis which were run by regulated Agricultural Produce Market Committees or APMCs. Gradually, all large wholesale markets, which were the first touchpoints for farmers, were brought under APMC Acts.

Farmers’ objection: “We are not only apprehensive but fully convinced that the new agricultural Acts are brought to dismantle APMCs. Therefore, we are demanding that the Union government should employ a comprehensive Act on MSP for the whole country and for all crops.

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The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 were collectively passed as a part of 2020 Farm Laws.

These three bills, expected to bring revolutionary changes to agrarian context and help double farmers’ incomes are: The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and The Essential …

The laws are: The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act.

The protesters are challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his efforts to reshape farming in India. The demonstrators are demanding that Mr. Modi repeal recent farming laws that would minimize the government’s role in agriculture and open more space for private investors.

The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, allows farmers to sell their harvest outside the notified Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis without paying any State taxes or fees.

Farmers from Punjab and Haryana have been at protesting against the farm legislations enacted by New Delhi fearing that the government will do away with minimum support prices (MSP). The central government has assured that the MSP system will continue several times, but farmers are demanding a written assurance.

The three bills are Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020.

The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 are the main issue behind farmers’ protest.

The farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana are angry with the provisions of these Bills as they are afraid that these Bills may be the platform that the government (at the Centre) is setting up for the replacement or scrapping of the otherwise robust support system prevalent in their states for the purchase of …