In October 2024, a small farmer from Solapur district in Maharashtra flew to a Southeast Asian capital. He was not going on holiday. He was going to sell a kidney for roughly eight lakh rupees to pay off loans he could no
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A constitutional, political-economy and rural governance question. “India’s agricultural crisis is not merely ecological or economic. It is also constitutional.” I. The Paradox at the Heart of Indian Agriculture In the constitutional architecture of independent India, agriculture was placed firmly in the
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Earlier this month, when bids came back for India’s latest urea import tender, most clustered around $1,000 a tonne. One bid hit $1,136. The previous tender — just a few months earlier — had cleared at $500. The world’s largest urea importer
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A Journey Through Plasticulture Recently, while travelling through the Melukote (Melkote) region of Pandavapura Taluk in Mandya district, Karnataka, I was struck by the vast stretches of vegetable, flower, and fruit crops covered with plastic mulch. It reminded me of similar scenes
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