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India farmer protests

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                                                                                    Barricades at Delhi border to stop Farmer's march Farmer movements represent the failures of Modi regime in multiple ways. First is the obvious economic failures. India is a jobless economy where very few avenues of decent employment exists. Most of the labor force still relies on agrarian rural sector for livelihood. Since agrarian sector has very low productivity and wages, labor employed in this sector has dismal income and living standards. On top of that, the climate change disruptions (change in weather patterns, increasing frequency of erratic monsoons), lack of infrastructure (supply chain disruptions due to floods, lack of reliable irrigation systems etc) and backward farm practices (lack of modern technology) amplify the already dismal prospects of agriculture sector. Farm sector is the furnace that destroys India's workforce.  The problem is, India has not developed/modernized other a