Farm to Fork: High prices of food staples a boon for farmers in India

The first of a four-part series highlights the impact of rising food prices on farmers' income

As the monsoon rains lash north India, Jaskaran Yadav, a resident of Bahrauli in Uttar Pradesh, is getting ready to sow rice. Thanks to the rising prices of food staples, farmers like Yadav are upbeat about their future after a long time.

“The current rabi marketing season has been good owing to the robust demand in the market, which fetched us good prices at the government-run procurement centres,” says Yadav, whose family is also into dairy farming. Yadav cultivates rice, wheat, mint and potato on his five-acre ancestral land.

In recent months, the sharp rise in the demand for wheat