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How Trade Policy Is Changing Farm Costs and Profits
Ramesh Kumar is forty two years old, standing at the edge of his wheat field in Gurdaspur, Punjab, doing math in his head, fertilizer costs, expected yield, market prices, then school fees and loan repayments. I don't know if we can afford it this year, he says. Everything depends on the crop. This episode traces exactly how decisions made in trade offices thousands of kilometers away turn into a real number on a farmer's balance sheet. We break down the global fertilizer squeeze driving cost...
27 Aug 2026
Closing the gender gap in Asian agriculture
Closing the gender gap in agriculture could add up to one trillion dollars to global GDP, and help forty five million people escape food insecurity. The United Nations has designated 2026 the International Year of the Woman Farmer to confront this head on. This episode looks at what that gap actually looks like across Asia, and what is being done about it. We correct a widely repeated but inaccurate statistic about women's role in global food production, break down the land ownership barrier ...
27 Aug 2026
Farming forward why farms still work by hand
Right now, across low and middle income countries, roughly half of all farm work still gets done by human or animal power, not machines. Not in the past, right now, in 2026. This episode looks at the real reasons so many farms across Asia still work by hand, despite decades of mechanization progress. We break down the structural barriers behind this, land fragmentation and the economics that make big machinery unaffordable for small plots, tasks that genuinely still need a human touch, and th...
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