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Ramrao: The Story of India’s Farm Crisis
Author: Jaideep Hardikar
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 266
Price: Rs 399
How does one understand the agrarian crisis that has been building over the years? There is the macro picture of fragmenting farm lands, unviable agriculture, broken credit system and inefficient markets that can be sorted out by market-facing “reforms” which takes the argument towards industrial agriculture. Will the same argument hold given our demographics of a large population dependent on agriculture? How do we understand the collateral effects on farmers, if the policy moves towards modernising and industrialising farming? Is that a problem?
Then there is the Palagummi Sainath
