View: A 'whatever-it-takes’ mindset is now needed for India's agricultural reforms
Synopsis
A similar direct push — or a ‘whatever-it-takes’ mindset — is now necessary to take the latest agricultural reforms to SSPs. The days of ‘build it and they will come’, or the notorious ‘trickle-down effect’, has truly ended in a post-pandemic world.
Purvi Mehta &Nidhi Nath SrinivasThe recent thrust to agricultural infrastructure and reforms is aimed at turbocharging a sector that provides livelihoods to more than half of India’s population and contributes 14% to gross value added (GVA). Everyone agrees that this objective will be accomplished only when the majority of small-scale producers, who control only 44% of the total farmland and 50% of the total farming output, gain directly from
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