A critique of Kasturirangan Report - Part 5

Recommendations 12 through 17

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Recommendations 18 through 29 (Green incentives)

No comments, although incentivizing organic farming (28) is not an easy task. There is every chance that people will be either inadequately compensated or will end up stopping farming altogether. HLWG can simply state that the Organic outputs should be branded and sold. But who will create the market for these organic output, and how will the farmers access it? There are a lot of implementation hurdles around this recommendation and this can potentially derail a lot of livelihoods. Since this recommendation is vague on its details, I can't comment any further. But that itself is a problem. In principle, I don't have an issue, but I don't see how it can be put into practice without creating livelihood troubles for the people. And should I even talk about the track record of the governments in implementing any incentive scheme successfully?

Recommendations 30 through 36

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