The Cropping Pattern Crisis in Telangana: Why Business as Usual Is Not an Option
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Aaditeshwar Seth
Apr 19, 2026, 8:33:15 AMApr 19
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Another very reflective article, and while it is about Telangana, I guess similar transitions and precarity exists in other states. Side ask: We really need to get all this data on production statistics, MSP, prices, etc. together in one place on dashboards to study the patterns.
The main point is the last paragraph: The question is whether the change will be planned, compensated, and farmer-centred — or chaotic, uncompensated, and absorbed entirely by the farming community. Civil society, farmer institutions, and policy advocates have a narrow but real window to shape which of these futures arrives first.
The (only?) good thing with the market system is that it is self-correcting, but it needs steering so that it does this not through processes of accumulation but of equitable distribution, of both costs and benefits.
Adi
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