Agriculturists’s woes are not just forms of a crisis, but also indicate the deceleration of the agrarian economy
Unseasonal rain, falling commodity prices, increasing input costs, decreasing size of land holdings, and now the political move to “acquire” all land into the globalizing market.
The agony-list that agriculturists can make of their current situation can be even longer for all these are not just forms of a crisis, but also indicate the deceleration of the agrarian economy.
No longer synonymous with only village or agriculture, rural India is currently a mosaic of conditions which include vast tracts of impoverished habitations, small pockets of prosperous commercial agriculture, zones dependent on remittance economies, belts that are getting absorbed into the real estate grid, and regions that are integrated into the global extractive, mining industries. Migration seems to have intensified, from the earlier forms of seasonal and circular migration, to longer stretches and distances.
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