The "First cause" of agricultural ailment is embedded in a feudal ecosystem defined by unviable subsistence farming on millions of fragmented, land-crippled micro farms, covering 71.5% of the country's cropped area. This system yields diminishing returns, and agricultural growth policies have consistently failed – and will continue to fail – as undeniably evident from the last quarter-century agricultural record.

Agriculture growth (FY00 to FY25) remained a meager 2.63% with real GDP rising from Rs5.018 trillion to Rs9.603 trillion, barely keeping pace with population growth (2.32%). Consequently, per capita agricultural GDP inched up just 0.29% (Rs37k to Rs40k), showing no change in rural poverty-ridden lives. While livestock (+3.81%) outperformed all others, forestry (+0.16%) and fishin

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