The Middlemen
Often the middlemen do not let the farming and the cottage industries flourish. Since the small producers are always in desperate need of money, they sell their products to the middlemen who, taking the benefit of their needs, purchase the products at the lowest rate. These middlemen then create an atmosphere of shortage of such food, goods or material in the market by hoarding them and thus they ultimately succeed selling them at the highest possible rates. Finally, neither the small scale producers nor the consumer ever has a chance to take the benefit of a direct marketing. We need to discard Mandi Samiti practices and allow such mandi markets for farmers to sell their products directly to the consumers. This should be an additional option after the government purchase. In our Indian system, food products go to a consumer through a middleman. Most of the farmers face the want of basic capital to invest in producing their crops. Often, they manage to meet such requirements wit...