The most popular is daily wage labour activities – especially road construction, house construction, MGNREGS work – in which 78% surveyed farmers are engaged.
The weather this season has been unkind to farmers as India has been hit with hailstorms and untimely rain over the past few weeks. Maharashtra, Rajasthan, MP, UP have been hit and as a result, the Rabi harvests have suffered.
Rahul Gandhi was speaking at a meeting in Medshi in Washim district at the end of the 10th day of the Maharashtra leg of his 3,570-km-long Bharat Jodo Yatra