I refer to the "So they say” column (Parsiana, September 21-October 6, 2024) in which Naushad Forbes’s excerpt from Business Standard seems to lament that "agriculture employs 46% but produces 18% of our gross domestic product.”
Before we conclude therefrom that agriculture is a poor contributor to the economy, we must be conscious of the crucial role that farmers play in the well-being, stability and independence of our country by providing us the first item that sustains our very lives. Moreover, in supporting and promoting agriculture we are also to a large extent preventing the cancer of concrete from claiming the......