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Govt spend fails to lift rural economy, indicators point towards a crisis

As most indicators from rural India point towards a crisis, the latest GVA for agri shows a rather contrasting picture

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Sanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi
Lakhichand Sinam of Sonee village in Mandsaur district,  Madhya Pradesh, has for the first time seen his standing soybean crop being so badly destroyed by monsoon. Not only his own crop, grown in over 4 acres, but almost the entire soybean crop in all the neighbouring fields has been damaged due to the incessant rain that broke several records this year, Sinam tells this reporter on phone from Mandsaur.    

Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA), in its last crop assessment report released on October 11, pegged the total soybean crop in Madhya Pradesh at more than 4 million tonnes,

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