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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India’s farmers can keep economy running in Covid crisis. But who will tell Modi govt that? -Yogendra Yadav

India’s farmers can keep economy running in Covid crisis. But who will tell Modi govt that? -Yogendra Yadav

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published Published on Apr 22, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 23, 2020

-ThePrint.in

This is the moment to thank farmers. You don’t need thali or taali for that, you just need to ensure they get a fair price. Then we can kickstart India’s economy.

As many states in north India begin their food grain procurement operations and more and more news begin to filter in from rural India, we can see one of the biggest blunders of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown strategy: it might turn India’s biggest asset during this crisis into our biggest liability for a long time to come.

Agrarian sector can be India’s bulwark against the current Covid-19 crisis. It so happens that rural India is the least affected by the coronavirus in this first wave of viral infection. Rural settlements allow for greater social distancing than clusters of persons of comparable economic status in urban areas. Most agrarian operations require more space than what factories do. Agricultural mandis are more spread out than any other bazaar. So, agriculture was the one sector of our economy that could keep going with relatively lesser risk despite the lockdown. Even when the guidelines did not permit it explicitly, the farmers managed to visit their fields and carry out the pre-harvesting and harvesting operations.

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ThePrint.in, 22 April, 2020, https://theprint.in/opinion/india-farmers-can-keep-economy-running-in-covid-crisis/406642/


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