Governments respond to farm crisis as a political problem, by announcing loan waivers.
As usual, the government is just distracting us with promises and hoping to stave off the inevitable - popular discontent.
The ongoing protests say a different story altogether.
There is a sense of reductionism to the way we present a crisis.
The latest proposal to tax farmers should have a broader plan to increase their income first.
The blame falls finally on the farmers themselves!
Such band-aids in the past have crippled Indian farming and helped governments avoid uncomfortable reforms.
It brings only temporary relief to a handful of farmers.
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Fortune Cookie | 3-minute read
Traditional farmers are repositories of ancient wisdom that has helped agriculture remain sustainable over the centuries.
They are stories not of a country's doom but stories of a country's will to survive.
