{"id":3557,"date":"2017-01-22T10:20:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2017-01-22T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T04:50:12","slug":"the-seen-and-the-unseen-episode-one-entry-and-exit-in-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-seen-and-the-unseen-episode-one-entry-and-exit-in-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seen and the Unseen Episode One: Entry and Exit in Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/episodes\/ep1-entry-exit-agriculture\" title=\"Entry and Exit in Agriculture -- Amit Varma\">the first episode<\/a> of my weekly podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\" title=\"The Seen and the Unseen\">The Seen and the Unseen<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4994301\/height\/90\/width\/400\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>India has a panoply of laws that prevent corporations from getting into farming, and which prevent farmers from escaping agriculture, by virtue of not being able to sell their farm land for non-agricultural purposes. The Seen Effect of this is that they are protected from exploitation by rapacious capitalists. But are the Unseen Effects worse?<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma is joined by guests <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zeusisdead\" title=\"Pavan Srinath on Twitter\">Pavan Srinath<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karthiks\" title=\"Karthik Shashidhar on Twitter\">Karthik Shashidhar<\/a>, who explain that a key reason why Indian agriculture is in such a dreadful state today is the bad laws governing it set by different governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\/episodes\/ep1-entry-exit-agriculture\" title=\"Entry and Exit in Agriculture -- Amit Varma\">the first episode<\/a> of my weekly podcast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seenunseen.in\" title=\"The Seen and the Unseen\">The Seen and the Unseen<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>India has a panoply of laws that prevent corporations from getting into farming, and which prevent farmers from escaping agriculture, by virtue of not being able to sell their farm land for non-agricultural purposes. The Seen Effect of this is that they are protected from exploitation by rapacious capitalists. But are the Unseen Effects worse?<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma is joined by guests <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zeusisdead\" title=\"Pavan Srinath on Twitter\">Pavan Srinath<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karthiks\" title=\"Karthik Shashidhar on Twitter\">Karthik Shashidhar<\/a>, who explain that a key reason why Indian agriculture is in such a dreadful state today is the bad laws governing it set by different governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,20,4,21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Seen and the Unseen Episode One: Entry and Exit in Agriculture - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-seen-and-the-unseen-episode-one-entry-and-exit-in-agriculture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Seen and the Unseen Episode One: Entry and Exit in Agriculture - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the first episode of my weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen. 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