Political-corporate nexus It is not every day that one needs a doctor, a lawyer, a policemen or a priest, but everyday, three times a day, you need a farmer. Farmers are not a homogenous community. There are caste and class differences because, among land-owning farmers, the socio-economic spectrum of farmers is huge. At one end are wealthy, university-educated farmers with large land-holdings, who are also traders or aggregators, own agri-based industries, have political clout (sometimes as MLAs/MPs), and may or may not live on their land. At the low end, are marginal/ subsistence farmers who live on their land.