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Resource centre on India's rural distress
 
 

Should you bet on agricultural stocks now? -Sanjay Kumar Singh

-The Economic Times


The ills of Indian agriculture are many and well documented: highly fragmented land holdings, inadequate mechanisation, low quality and quantity of inputs, high dependence on monsoons, and so on. But the sector may do better in the future.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's success in raising the pace of agricultural growth in Gujarat and his government's intention of introducing agri reforms-the recent raising of import duty on sugar, meant to make its cultivation more remunerative for Indian farmers, is an example-inspire confidence in the sector's prospects. The BJP's manifesto had also laid a lot of emphasis on raising farmers' incomes.

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