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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India must rescue farmers from Covid-19 shock -Soumya Sarkar

India must rescue farmers from Covid-19 shock -Soumya Sarkar

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published Published on May 1, 2020   modified Modified on May 1, 2020

-TheThirdPole.net

India’s pandemic-forced lockdown has plunged agriculture into a crisis that needs immediate cash transfers to bail out smallholder farmers preparing for the summer cropping season

India’s complete lockdown to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has upended the agrarian economy of the South Asian nation. It could have a serious impact on farm production in the main summer cropping season, work for which starts in May.

Farmers in India are no strangers to crisis, but the current disruption due to the pandemic is unprecedented. The government must come forward to succour smallholder and marginal farmers in particular through a fiscal stimulus package that should include unconditional cash transfers for poor rural households to tide over the situation, economists and agricultural experts said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown in March 24, which he extended for another 19 days to May 3. Covid-19 has infected at least 33,000 in India, and more than a thousand have died already, the latest data shows. Compared to many other countries, these numbers are low, and the government says the relative success is due to the stringency of the lockdown. But that has had disastrous consequences for farmers.

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TheThirdPole.net, 1 May, 2020, https://www.thethirdpole.net/2020/05/01/india-must-rescue-farmers-from-covid-19-shock/


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