AGRICULTURAL incentives, intended to safeguard farmers’ incomes while achieving self-sufficiency in food security, are resulting in unintended negative consequences such as distortion of the cropping pattern and inefficient use of natural resources due to ineffective planning and implementatio
One bad crop season wreaks havoc on crops and farm assets. Crop losses force farmers to take debt from money lenders at exorbitant rates of interest, leading to farm distress and ultimately suicide. Farmers face various types of losses at different stages of crop growth. Crop insurance against these
A Amarender Reddy
THE farmers’ agitation against the Central farm laws is almost a year long. Although farmers fear discontinuation of procurement at the Minimum Support Price (MSP), they think
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