Farmers versus kiranas

Now that leading farmer groups have come out in support of FDI in retail, the debate has got a lot more interesting. After all, if the imagined travails of 3 million retailers can stall the FDI proposal, then the possible benefits to farmers have to be weighed against this. While the BJP lot are now of the view FDI will finish off kiranas, the fact is that even if Big Retail's market share jumps from 6% today to an impossible 20% in a decade, that allows kiranas to grow at 12-13% annually.

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