02-07-2007, 04:31 AM
Given India's enormous population, it is not possible to set up industries and their associated townships only on barren land. Such a strategy might work in Rajasthan and Gujarat, but will not work in West Bengal. There is also another point to be made here. Agriculture can not yield wealth for our farmers. Land-man ratio is too adverse. Poverty can be reduced only by moving rural population to industry and services sector jobs. There is no other way.
There is no future in subsistence farming.
There is no future in subsistence farming.