In case anyone else was wondering, there are no details in the article that would allow a person with a grasp of economics to get an idea whether what the farmers are asking for would really help them.
“In case anyone else was wondering, there are no details in the article that would allow a person with a grasp of economics to get an idea whether what the farmers are asking for would really help them.”
Pretty standard for today’s ‘reporting’.
They want continued guaranteed price supports.
India’s adoption of western agricultural practices is creating food abundance that is depressing crop prices and bankrupting inefficient farmers.
Lots of commie agitators prefer famine.
A world wide rebellion against those who say they are our betters and stick their noses into our business has started.
Being a farmer myself I am on the side of the people who have done their best to comply with increasingly idiotic regulations and mounds of paperwork only to have the government decide that I need to do something else entirely.
I just would like to sell my apples and cheese.
from what I gather, the farmers feed 50% of the population but have shrunk to 10% of the economy. Allowing increased private investment could be viewed as inviting a flood of (chinese-held?) corporate megafarms, that would put them out of the truck farming business, and ultimately, their land. These guys are riding in on horses and 100-yr old tractors - not wealthy by any means and probably with few prospects. Just my read tho
There no details which might give outsiders an idea of the politics involved on both sides, either.
Hard to draw a conclusion with facts at-hand, in that article.
The only thing that would really help them is a free market in agriculture, but I doubt that’s what they want.