Economy
Agrarian & Rural Distress
Fragmented holdings, low crop yields, debt cycles
Farm distress is a bundle of tiny plots, weather risk, weak prices, and debt — not one bad harvest but a repeating cycle.
What keeps this stuck
- Generational fragmentation (many farmers below ~2 hectares)
- Monsoon dependence, soil stress, and low technology adoption
- Middleman cartels and volatile crop prices
- Informal moneylender debt traps after crop failure
Is this a root problem worth fixing first?
How this connects
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