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Exmine the various causes of agrarian crisis in India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 20 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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India's agrarian crisis is a crisis of viability, not of output. Foodgrain production reached a record 376.56 million tonnes in 2025-26, yet most farm households cannot live on farming alone. The signs have been clear since the late 1990s: stagnant real incomes, rising debt, distress migration and farm suicides. The causes are layered: a structural…

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  • Structural causes
  • Price and market causes
  • Credit and debt
  • Input, water and climate causes
  • Policy and institutional causes
  • The human cost and its reading
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