May
21
Modi’s Inflation War Angers India Farmers as Wage Gains Slow
ByA farmer holds damaged wheat at a farm in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
In the wheat fields stretching across northern India, farmers like Dalvir Sharma are starting to turn on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sharma, 51, voted for Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party last year after it promised to stem rising prices in the market. Now he’s struggling to pay back a 100,000 rupee ($1,570) loan after unseasonal rains destroyed most of his crop and guaranteed prices increased at the slowest pace in at least four years…
Modi’s Inflation War Angers India Farmers as Wage Gains Slow