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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The root of the farm crisis in India -Roshan Kishore

The root of the farm crisis in India -Roshan Kishore

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published Published on May 18, 2015   modified Modified on May 18, 2015
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Politics and bad economics have led to the current agricultural crisis in India

With around 65% of India’s agriculture depending on rain and more than half the population on agriculture, too little or too much rain is always a harbinger of trouble. On occasions like these, accusations of the government of the day being anti-farmer replace all other charges in polemics. Something similar has happened this year, as erratic weather has fuelled a new cycle of distress in rural India.

What is often lost in the din though is what exactly the anti-farmer policies being referred to are. After all, a government cannot be blamed for the fury of the rain god. Is it only a question of providing temporary relief? Or is it the case that a particular set of policies has been used to favour the non-farm sector over agriculture?

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Livemint.com, 17 May, 2015, http://mintonsunday.livemint.com/news/the-root-of-india%E2%80%99s-farm-crisis/2.3.2450332154.html


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