The nation was drunk in the success of green revolution. Bollywood , kollywood and Tollywood took to glamorizing the farmer as a macho idol. Tractors became the aston martins and instead of micro gadgets , our 007-esque farmer had a staff and fists that could blast off villains and their cronies into stratosphere.
In reality though the invincible muse was not so immune after all. The scientists did the resource audit but failed to do the environment audit. Many fertile fields which earlier gave out lush crops now fed the cattle as pastures. Many exotic breeds of crops that had genetically evolved natively to the respective regions were lost out as standardized crops surfaced on the market. They required ample input of fertilizers and supplements.
According to a study , according to the figures projected by the dailies of that era; a hectare of land should have received an annual precipitation level of 1500 litres , not at all congruent with actual meteorological figures.
All this possibly suggests a laundering of Foreign investment without proper channels. Again a curtain pulled over an act ; whence poor turned poorer and the rich made hay while the sun was still up.