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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | First survey of farmers after Modi govt’s 3 farm laws is bad news for the BJP -Yogendra Yadav

First survey of farmers after Modi govt’s 3 farm laws is bad news for the BJP -Yogendra Yadav

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published Published on Oct 21, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 23, 2020

-ThePrint.in

The Gaon Connection survey suggests that the govt and media would live in denial if they see farmers’ protests as a rebellion of the entitled.

Is farming profitable?” Now, take a guess: from which part of India do you expect to hear a ‘yes’ to this question? I bet you would say, Punjab and Haryana, followed by Maharashtra and other western states. South might come after that. And you would expect to hear a loud ‘no’ from eastern India and, of course, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

You are wrong. In the first week of this month, Gaon Connection asked this question to 5,022 farmers across 54 districts in 16 states and got very surprising results. Northwest India, comprising Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh in this survey, was the only region to return a negative verdict: 53 per cent said farming was not profitable, compared to 40 per cent who said it was. Western India was more or less split (44 per cent no to 50 per cent yes), followed by the South and the East. Farmers from UP and Bihar gave the most positive answer: 63 per cent said farming was profitable to just 23 per cent who said it was not.

Your first reaction would be to question the survey itself. I checked its methodology and spoke to the team. This survey may not meet the highest standard of random sampling and social scientific protocols of fieldwork, but its sample is large and fairly representative in terms of regions, castes and landholding. The questions are neutral and seem to be administered reasonably well. After decades of looking at survey data, I can say that the broad conclusions of this first nation-wide survey on the Narendra Modi government’s three farm legislations can be trusted.

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ThePrint.in, 21 October, 2020, https://theprint.in/opinion/first-survey-of-farmers-after-modi-govt-3-farm-laws-is-bad-news-for-the-bjp/528062/?amp&__twitter_impression=true


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