agriculture

“About, you know, a quarter of the Indian economy is related to agriculture, right? Much more than just the stated number, which reflects primary agriculture. There's a huge amount of agribusiness that happens around that.”

“So the 2017, 18 survey showed that from agriculture, an average agriculturist gets only 27 rupees per person per day.”

“We have about, I used to say a hundred million people surplus in agriculture, but another seventy million have joined agriculture in the last three, four years. Therefore, I believe we have two hundred million people who are surplus in agriculture.”

“Every form of storage in agriculture is treated as hoarding as part of the Essential Commodities Act.”

“India still has close to 48, 49% of its labor in farms, both as farmers and the landless agricultural labor.”

“So you find the agriculture contributing about 15% of GDP, but occupying 40, 45% or 50% of the labor. Look at their families and all. So this makes a normal agriculture guy about six to seven times Poorer than the other person who is working outside agricultur…”