Ramaswami: A real boon for farmers would have been the government procurement straight from the villages, or clusters of villages. It's not as if it can’t be done: in Punjab, very often this is the way wheat is procured. But the government needs to organise the whole exercise. This would prevent farmers from travelling to crowded mandis (APMCs) and continuing transmission of the coronavirus. But, the government thinks its job is done after doling out Rs 2,000.