2017: A hard year for farmers, environment, and public healthcare

With bumper harvest crashing prices, air quality index rising and lack of infrastructure in public health care, the year 2017 turned out to be a lesson for India to learn

A bumper harvest crashing prices, pollution worsening in Delhi and other north Indian cities due to crop stubble burning and power plants, and the lack of infrastructure and manpower in public health centres leading to deaths of children across the country were the key points of worry for India in 2017.

Agriculture reported growth of 4.9 per cent for 2016-17 against 0.7 per cent in 2015-16, according to this report from the office of the economic advisor to the finance minister.

Foodgrain production increased from 218.1 million tonnes in 2009-10 to 275.6 million