[muktabh]

Farmers are financially not that well off and a big share of population in India is farmers. There is already provision of prosecuting farmers in law, but no administration wants to punish the relatively poor + electorally important farmers by enforcing the laws.

[inapis]

Punjab and Haryana farmers are by no means poor farmers.

[kamaal]

In India it's important to make a distinction between farm laborers and farmers. Traditionally what people referred to as farmers in India are basically feudals, and they are by no means poor people, they are easily some of the richest people in India.

Farm laborers are a totally different set of working class people. Who only until recent decades were into as bad as a thing like bonded labor. They work on starving wages and are generally poor and from lower castes.

India for very long has given feudals unlimited loan bailouts, and freebies. They also pay no taxes. Most of my friends who come from farmer families has gone to do expensive education in countries like US. And they are often confused with farm laborers and they milk this perception to the very extreme.

Imagine being so rich you hold large banks of land, make windfall profits, pay zero taxes on them and get freebies(seeds, fertilizers, water, electricity) and then being confused as the poorest people in India.

Its the farm laborers that need help. And they are unfortunately treated very badly. Heck many people don't even recognize their existence.