View: Farm laws to bring more freedom, and better prices

Surveys show 42% of farmers want to move out of it. Between 1970-71 and 2015-16, the number of farms more than doubled from 71 million to 145 million while the average farm size more than halved from 2.28 hectares to 1.08. The main solution lies in moving people out of agriculture into manufacturing and services. Other measures are only palliatives.

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