Dr Lekshmi R Nair (Research Consultant, CPPR) explains in an article published in ‘Azhimukham’ how excessive government intervention in the marketing mechanisms in agriculture has disincentivised farmers, ultimately leading to the collapse of agriculture in Kerala.
Click here to read the article: How Successive Governments Destroyed the Agriculture Sector in Kerala?
This article was published in Azhimukham on January 4, 2018: Click here to read
Dr Lekhmi Nair was Research Consultant with CPPR. She has a PhD (Economics) and MPhil (Applied Economics) from JNU/CDS Trivandrum and a Masters in Statistics.