Why does data about increasing rural consumption shock us? Urban imagination sees the rural as a static, timeless domain where people are bare-minimalists lacking in ambition, agency or entrepreneurship. However, even if agriculture is declining, the rural isn’t. The rural is getting reconstituted amidst this confusion with ambivalent trends.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/de-ploughing-%E2%80%9Crural
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/santosh-kr-singh
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-habitat
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/consumption-patterns
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/farmers
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-poverty