Farmers dont want to farm?

The whole lame and twisted logic to now defend the fundamentally undemocratic process of snatching farmers' land without their consent and without a social impact assessment is to say that a majority of respondents in a CSDS survey would rather not farm under the current conditions.

Instead of exploiting this telling piece of data for serving corporate interest, the Govt could have asked the following questions to try and address the real issues at hand

1- Would the farmers have said that they would continue to farm if their produce got a fair price?
2- Would the farmers have said they would continue to farm if they had better access to irrigation, electricity and technology?
3- Would those farmers who want to leave farming despite the provision of these conditions, want to retain their land as assets? Or would they be happy to have their land snatched away in the name of the greater good (an undefined, unquantified phrase) of the country?

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