Cut The Clutter: PM Modi’s appeal to angry farmers, the wheat-paddy-sugar trap & consumer-vs-farmer dilemma

 Minister Narendra Modi's outreach to farmers, which included the announcement of the release of over Rs 18,000 crore under the PM-Kisan scheme, was not only conciliatory towards them, but also aggressive and included a bit of electioneering. In episode 648 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta analyses some aspects of the scheme and the importance of crop diversification from wheat and rice cycles.