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India's agricultural sector is experiencing a critical youth exodus, with young workers abandoning farms at a time when the industry desperately needs their technical skills and knowledge to modernize farming practices. The departure of younger generations is leaving farms understaffed and unable to implement the innovations necessary to improve productivity and farmer incomes.
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Indian policymakers recently renewed an old call: move workers out of agriculture. It is good economics—the traditional path to prosperity involves a country’s labour force moving from farms to manufacturing and then to services. Except that in India, that transformation is already done to a large extent, at least among the young.
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