How ‘Big Ag’ ate up America’s small farms

40 years ago, the US threw open

farming

to the corporate sector, something India now wants to do. How has this played out there? Los Angeles-based IITian Bedabrata Pain, an ex-Nasa scientist and national award-winning filmmaker, set out on a 10,000-km road trip across rural

America

to document the story of their

farmers

. This is what he saw

The roads were icy and the wind biting cold as we started our 10,000-km journey through the heart of America one January morning. Sristy Agrawal, Rajashik Tarafder — young physicists pursuing their PhDs — Rumela Gangopadhyay, a theatre artiste, and I wanted to witness the state of farming in rural America, the quintessential “Trump country”.

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