The agriculture sector provides a livelihood to nearly 70 per cent of India’s 1.3 billion people and accounts for about 15 per cent of the $2.7-trillion economy. Farms need to become larger (the average Indian farm is two hectares), which makes the replacement of pure human labour with more expensive machinery work out. Each unit of human labour thus becomes more productive, leveraged up by that machinery and automation. For it takes human labour to do all the nice things that go into building a civilisation. By automating farming, so that we need less human labour there, we can have the human labour, the workers, who can be in our hospital system.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 19, 2020 17:03 UTC