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Bundelkhand Survey Paints a Dire Picture of Rural Distress -Devanik Saha

-TheWire.in

This year has been yet another bad one for the agriculture sector. With just 0.2% growth in the last quarter, a good monsoon was essential to revive the sector. However, a deficient monsoon worsened the situation and as many as nine states have been forced to declare a drought. With almost 60% of India’s workforce engaged in agriculture, the slowdown has immensely affected the rural economy.

The rural distress has in turn fed the number of farmer suicides, but more often than not, states have failed to give due recognition to this problem.

Of all states, Uttar Pradesh has the highest deficiency of rainfall this year, leading it to declare 50 of its 75 districts as drought-hit. It has sought an assistance of Rs.2,058 crore assistance from the Centre. UP’s data on farmer suicides is also dodgy. Farmer representatives accuse local officials of gathering information on farmer deaths but deliberately not registering it.

Recently, Swaraj Abhiyan, an initiative led by activist-politicians Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan and assisted by economist Jean Dreze, conducted a drought impact assessment across seven districts in the Bundelkhand region – Jhansi, Jalaun, Lalitpur, Chitrakoot, Banda, Hamirpur and Mahoba. Some 1,206 households across 108 villages were surveyed and responses registered on five parameters: the extent of crop damage, impact on food and nutrition, impact on employment opportunities, impact on cattle, and availability of relief measure.

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