December 19: Agriculture in America, Lessons and Warnings

Kisan Podcast 2020-21 by Sial Mirza Goraya

Dec 19, 202000:41:43News & Politics

I speak with Prasan (@dhanuraashi) about the transformation of agriculture in the United States, where household farms gradually got trapped in endless cycles of debt in the 20th century leading to rural devastation.

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