Agriculture
Understanding agricultural policy in India through the lens of free markets — from APMC reform and contract farming to the economics of minimum support prices.
Why are Indian farmers called annadatas rather than entrepreneurs?
Why do farmers remain poor even though India is a top producer of food?
Why is farming so heavily subsidised yet still unprofitable?
Why do consumer prices keep rising even when farmers earn so little?
Why are farms in India so small and fragmented, and why does that matter?
Why can't farmers freely buy, sell, or lease their land like other property owners?
Why is it hard to shift farmland to non-agricultural use or use it as collateral?
Why do so many farmers grow water-hungry crops in dry regions?
Are input subsidies for fertiliser, power, and water a safety net or a trap?
Does contract farming empower farmers?
Why are farmers still required or nudged to sell in government mandis?
Why is there so much food waste?
Why does the Food Corporation of India buy and hold such large grain stocks?
Why is agricultural trade policy so unpredictable, and what does that do to investment?
Why do many farmers say they would leave agriculture if they could?
Who really decides what a farmer grows on their land?
Why are farmers in developed countries wealthier than Indian farmers?
How can policy treat farmers as entrepreneurs who are free to stay, free to leave, and free to trade?