Ideally, there should be consolidation o f land, mechanization and the laid-off farmers would find better paying jobs in cities which is what happened in China.
can only really do that with a good jobs program and social safety nets so they dont end up in poverty, which is why Modi needs to be hung before anything like this is considered
their agriculture is in dire need of mechanization
The smallholding farmers who would lose their livelihood under a Big Ag driven takeover/mechanization probably don't think so
Ideally, there should be consolidation o f land, mechanization and the laid-off farmers would find better paying jobs in cities which is what happened in China.
can only really do that with a good jobs program and social safety nets so they dont end up in poverty, which is why Modi needs to be hung before anything like this is considered
Oh my god I can't believe you would suggest that.
He needs to be hanged. I refuse to believe there is any universe in which Modi is hung
Fascism is SDE
Isn't intensive agriculture incredibly ecologically damaging in part because the mechanization is dependent on fossil fuels?
Yep, here's a cool article by Jason Hickel on the tremendous potential held by small-scale, regenerative agriculture, for mitigating climate change.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-01-10/regenerative-agriculture-our-best-shot-at-cooling-the-planet/
Aeroponics!