Don’t rule out some solutions
Concluding a post on Indian agriculture, The Undergraduate Economist writes:
Agriculture is a sector which cannot be neglected as majority of the Indians depend on it for their livelihood. [TUE]
Now, how you frame the issue determines how you think about the problem, and what solutions you might arrive at. Here’s a better framing:
A majority of Indians, who depend on agriculture for livelihood, cannot be neglected.
An even better way of looking at it would be to compare with Napoleans statement ‘An army marches on its stomach’, and draw conclusions on how important it is to provide affordable products for those involved in the non-agricultural sector.
Nitin,
Seriously, you need to open an institute that teaches writing!
>>A majority of Indians, who depend on agriculture for livelihood, cannot be neglected.
Such clarity of thought is rare.
Sandeep,
But then, I’m mildly certain that it is grammatically incorrect. Shouldn’t it be …who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods..? Or …that depends on agriculture for its livelihood… (the subject being “a majority”)?
I second Sandeep’s proposal.
Nitin, you forget the author also guest blogs @ Krishworld as an expert on economics. Ur Myopic
Nitin,
Aww that’s minor 🙂
Nitin,
Your line is framed well.
The subject of concern is the ‘people’ in both the cases.
I am sorry. The way any govt treats its business interests has been to keep the business because it helps the businessmen. then it seems unfair to separate the laborers from the labor they do.
The idea of retraining as a transition is a notion different from being a solution.
I wrote a brief post on my blog about the importance of agriculture in GDP which may be relevant to this discussion.