"How would we justify an essentially agrarian country importing most of the food that it eats and then using our lands to produce something else that we don't eat?
VOA: standard.2009.08.23
In a poor agrariancountry, the charge of bullying farmers to pander to big business can be a winding blow, especially as the ruling coalition, led by the Congress Party, relies on the Communist parties for its parliamentary majority.
But the question of title is a tricky one, in a country where land registries are chaotic and most land has not been surveyed—including that belonging to the National Agrarian Institute, the country's biggest landowner.