rural India
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How precision farming in Rajasthan’s desert is turning farmers into millionaires
An opening excerpt from a reported feature on polyhouse farming near Jaipur, where protected farming yields far more with less water. The text does not name the publication, and the…
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Farmers vs Government: The Benefits and Limits of Democratic Redistribution
The author argues that India’s democracy let its large farming population keep a steady share of redistribution during globalisation-led growth, unlike one-party China and Vietnam, where farm incomes fell relative…
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Moneylenders & Indian farmers
X.T.M shares his father-in-law’s trade correspondence on Indian agriculture: fragmented smallholdings, a Green Revolution that favoured rice and wheat, weekly grain markets and exploitative moneylenders, with farm debt and suicides…
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The lives of peasants
After a harrowing fiction extract, the author argues that peasants endure horrific conditions under globalisation, that elites must share if liberal democracy is to avoid armed revolution, and that dignity…
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Bharat is a different country
Sets out Census 2011 deprivation indicators showing that 69 per cent of Indians live in rural Bharat, where most households lack tap water, drainage, toilets and clean cooking fuel, far…
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the state of Sindh
A tweeted observation from Sindh that the poster found a boy and his friends working in fields who knew no one who had been to school.
