Farm protests, issues with MSP, APMC & India’s many Green Revolutions since the 1960s

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As the farmer protests continue, Shekhar Gupta explains the need for reforms given that India's current agricultural policies are suited to when it was living a 'ship-to-mouth' existence. Now, India has more grain than it can eat or store. In episode 633 of Cut The Clutter, he explains the intricacies of Minimum Support Pricing, the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act and the meaning of crop diversification.

Read also Mihir Sharma’s article here. Some references to the food crisis in the Sixties are taken from here:

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