It is unfortunate that the most important product in the world, food, suffers from an intransigent pricing problem. The producers never get the right price, rarely make enough profits to survive and are invariably veering between bankruptcy and debt.

Agrarian crisis: Farm loan waiver is not the solution

The Congress promised to waive off loans to farmers in the run-up to the recent Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and won the right to rule those states.

The economics and politics of loan waivers

Burdened with the task of producing cheap food for the nation, Indian farmers reside below poverty line

How Indian middle class's desire for 'cheap' food is harming farmers

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Agrarian crisis: Farm loan waiver is not the solution

The economics and politics of loan waivers

How Indian middle class's desire for 'cheap' food is harming farmers