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Women grow as much as 80% of India's food – but its new farm laws overlook their struggles

  • Written by Bansari Kamdar, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts Boston
Women grow as much as 80% of India's food – but its new farm laws overlook their strugglesPlanting paddy saplings in Patiala, India. Three-quarters of Indian farmers are women, but most don't own their land.Bharat Bhushan/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

Indian women are left behind on farms to make ends meet as more men in India migrate from rural areas to cities, seeking higher incomes and better jobs.

Nearly 75% of the full-time...

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