Farmers form the most influential voting bloc in India — and have long been romanticized as the heart and soul of the nation. Even though agriculture supports more than half of the country’s 1.4 billion people, the economic clout of farmers has diminished over the last three decades. (AP ...
Agriculture accounts for 15 per cent of India's GDP and it supports the livelihoods of half of the working population, according to government figures. “It is also a critical supplier of much-needed nutrition during the pandemic,” says Dharmakirti Joshi, chief economist of Crisil, a ratings ...
These variables have been shown to be significantly related to other health outcomes in India [20]. We found that neither per capita income nor percentage of the population below the poverty line are significant when included in the regression equation on their own or alongside the proportion of...
Agriculture employs about half of India's population of 1.3 billion, and unrest among an estimated 150 million landowning farmers is one of the biggest challenges to the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi since coming to power in 2014. Eleven rounds of talks between farm...
The farmers are an influential voting bloc and particularly important to Modi’s base — especially in Northern Haryana and several other states with a substantial farming population, where his Bharatiya Janata Party enjoys wide support. Antisemitism Exposed ...
In India, agriculture is a major contributor to the gross domestic product, employing nearly half the population directly or indirectly,notesAnalytics India Magazine. Yet these farms are very small; the average size is just 1.08 hectares (about 2.5 acres),reportsFortune India. Half lack basic farm...
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But the intensification of Indian farming in the decades since has spawned a series of challenges of its own, from chemical pollution to price distortion. One of the greatest of all is unsustainable water use. India, with a population of 1.4bn, is among the most water-stressed countries in ...
Getting farm reform right is vital; the sector employs 40 per cent of the population. Three acts passed by the BJP probably go in the right direction. The government says allowing contract farming and permitting companies to buy crops directly from farmers outside state-regulated markets will bot...
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