Fifth, credit-system in rural areas finds it difficult to cope with the rising demands of commercialised agriculture and in any case, there are few credible risk-mitigation measures for the borrowers resulting in greater distress to the farmers in areas with significant presence of commercial crops.
“The old order changeth, yielding place to the new ...” as Tennyson intoned in La Morte d’Arthur, and with foresight warned: “lest one good custom should corrupt the world.” There was once a time when we spoke of the promise of a stable state and an end to poverty.