India, June 3 -- An analysis published in Hindustan Times on Monday shows that India's agricultural workforce has become older than its non-agricultural counterpart in the post-reform period. A very large part of this age gap is because of younger men giving up on farming even as elderly male workers and women continue to work on farms. This data is in line with intuitive wisdom. More and more blue-collar workers have left their villages (and farms) to work in the cities. Even in villages, farming as a source of income is getting marginalised by other professions. Agriculture, per se, is finding it difficult to support incomes as viability remains a problem, the climate crisis is becoming a major source of disruption, and land holding get...