Badri Narayanan
Given what the farmers do for the economy it is hypocritical of us to criticise the higher allotments made for rural sector in the budget.
But the key to high farm growth lies in the implementation of the schemes so far announced.
This short piece on budget can hardly claim to be a comprehensive or even partial overview of all the announcements made. The intention is to briefly focus on a few aspects that relate to my own research in the past decade, qualitatively, with no numbers to support: agricultural and rural development, tobacco control and public investment.