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About a week ago, I read a piece of very good news amid the welter of speculation about whether M Karunanidhi’s family ties with the United Progressive Alliance would be retained or not. It was a despatch from Rajpura and Patiala by the Indian Express correspondent Aman Sood about the Punjab farmers.
No, it was not about another green revolution there. Sood conveyed the travails of the Punjab’s farmers about not finding enough workers to work on their farms. The issue, of course, is large, for 2.8 million hectares have to be sown this season and those who raise paddy crops are beside themselves in agony. If it is going to change the pattern of farming, by forcing the landowners to use labour-saving devises like machines which sow paddy, then so be it.
