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Keeping it Simple - Handling of Farmers' Distress

This comes from my close observance of farming since beginning of my second innings just over an year ago. A lot is being said and written about farmers' distress and then there is a huge pressure on NaMo govt to follow the stupid trend set by a grand corrupt party. This write up is beyond politics - for a change- and is not even considering professional video and photo-shoots that go in while making an issue out of farmers' conditions. And here it goes.... We may argue and differ but the fact remains that facilities - be it electricity or water or connectivity with markets or MSP or agro-related educational schemes and training or welfare schemes or crop insurance or support from quarters (both govt and non-govt) and such like vitals - are much more superior to what existed, say, 40 years back! Yes, impacts as well as developments have been prone to many factors and effects have not been uniform across the country's landmass but the bottom line is that a ...