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Author:K. UNNI KRISHNA MENON
p-ISSN:0024-9602, e-ISSN:2582-5321, Vol:20, Issue:sep-sep
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.A04972
Abstract
The depression is felt everywhere. The average farmer generally
falls an easy victim to it because he is improvident, ignorant, conser-
vative and uneconomical in his dealings. He is unable to say what his
cost of producing 1000 lbs. of paddy is. Without exactly knowing what
it is, he is selling the produce to the highest bidder who offers a price
per cartload, say, 1000 lbs. The purchaser fully realises the fact that
his prices are always lower than the ordinary wholesale market rates
and he is sure of a margin of profit in his business. On account of the
quick and easy transport facilities, the Indian producer who is following
the time-honoured crude and apparently cheap but on the whole costly
ways of farming, has to compete with the up-to-date civilised farmer
of the West who adopts the latest labour-saving appliances in his pro-
duction with due regard to economy. The civilised farmer always
stops producing any commodity when he finds that the trade is not
prepared to pay him at least his cost price. The Indian farmer not
knowing what his cost price is and following his time-honoured ways
and pinning his faith to the same old crops, does not know whether he
actually loses or gets a profit when he sells his produce at a given rate
per unit.
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