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For three decades, Lahu Bhiwa, a rice farmer in India, loaded his crop onto an ox cart and sold it to families in his village, earning about 2,000 rupees ($32) a month. His life changed in 2010, when bulldozers cleared the way for a paved road linking Kainad, where he lives, with the western coastal town of Dahanu. The asphalt road turned a three-hour journey by foot along a dirt path into a 25-minute car ride. That’s meant quicker and more frequent travel to Dahanu to buy fertilizer, seeds, and other supplies, and access to bigger markets and more buyers.
Bhiwa, whose monthly income has tripled to 6,000 rupees since the road was built, now sells to the highest bidder and checks benchmark prices on a mobile phone bought with the extra money he’s earned. “Our life has completely changed for the better ever since this road was built,” he says.
In the 10 years since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took office, the growth rate of India’s food output has doubled, boosted by the replacement of dirt paths with 600,000 kilometers (373,000 miles) of paved roads, the addition of 327 million rural phone lines, and a record improvement in literacy. Although India’s GDP growth is near a 10-year low, the increase in food production has prevented a deeper slump and could tilt an election in May in favor of Singh’s ruling Indian National Congress party. “What we see is a fundamental break from the past,” says Ganesh Kumar, an agricultural researcher at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai. “Higher farm output has kept rural demand alive and kicking, and that definitely helped the economy [avoid] a much more severe deceleration.”
India's Farmers Benefit From Better Roads, Which May Help Singh - Businessweek
Bhiwa, whose monthly income has tripled to 6,000 rupees since the road was built, now sells to the highest bidder and checks benchmark prices on a mobile phone bought with the extra money he’s earned. “Our life has completely changed for the better ever since this road was built,” he says.
In the 10 years since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took office, the growth rate of India’s food output has doubled, boosted by the replacement of dirt paths with 600,000 kilometers (373,000 miles) of paved roads, the addition of 327 million rural phone lines, and a record improvement in literacy. Although India’s GDP growth is near a 10-year low, the increase in food production has prevented a deeper slump and could tilt an election in May in favor of Singh’s ruling Indian National Congress party. “What we see is a fundamental break from the past,” says Ganesh Kumar, an agricultural researcher at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai. “Higher farm output has kept rural demand alive and kicking, and that definitely helped the economy [avoid] a much more severe deceleration.”
India's Farmers Benefit From Better Roads, Which May Help Singh - Businessweek
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