Farmers can't count on Monsoon any longer for farming

Seven states:

Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland have shown “significant decreasing trends” in annual rainfall in the last 30 years, says a Parliamentary committee based on Ministry of Earth Sciences report submitted to the committee.

Dark clouds flying over river Yamuna in Delhi and Heavy showers for 3 days provided some additional flows, although river facing decline & may turn drier in coming days.

Overall, in India there are significant decreasing trends in annual rainfall year after year and monsoon months are becoming highly irregular. Therefore, farmers can't count on monsoon any longer for farming.

In addition, farm labourers also not available even at high cost with reduced effective working hours.

No doubt, why younger farmers don't see their future in farming and migrating to cities to do jobs even in unorganised sectors. Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh having mostly stepped farms are worst affected states due to large scale migrations despite incentives offered by state and central governments.

Accordingly,

Holistic Farming of SCAIE shall be implemented through “Farming Groups of small farmers, FGSF” in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh of India and also in Hanoi regions of Vietnam where farms are small and largely stepped farms so to make farming labour-free, bullock/buffalo-free, easy, enjoyable and rewarding for younger farmers to return to their natives and adopt farming as the vibrant career.