INDIA-AGRICULTURE-ECONOMY

To go with ' India-Agriculture-Politics' FOCUS by Abhaya SRIVASTAVA In this photograph taken on April 15, 2015, Indian farmer Tarachand Mathur, 64, looks at his wheat crop grown on land acquired by the government in the village of Kanjhawala some 15 miles (25 kilometres) north-west of New Delhi. India's poor but powerful farming lobby flocked to Narendra Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party at the general election last May, when the Hindu nationalist premier won the biggest mandate in 30 years. But anger in rural areas has recently been mounting over his government's bid to overhaul land purchasing laws, compounding woes over extensive damage to winter crops due to unseasonal rain across northern India. AFP PHOTO / Chandan KHANNA (Photo credit should read Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)