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Agriculture is in a crisis and farmers will not remain silent: former ICAR chief

The central and state governments should pump in about Rs 50,000 crore ($7.5 billion) to transform half a million or one million hectares of fallow land into farmland and create the right atmosphere for private investment to rid the country of the ongoing agrarian crisis, says an eminent agricultural scientist. “India is facing an agrarian …

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September 20, 2017