Rural India is starting to look less like farmland and more like a low-security prison. Everywhere you go — barbed wire. On the fields. Around the orchards. Across kitchen gardens. We said we’re protecting crops from animals, but honestly... are we fencing out the problem or fencing in our failure?
Policies restricting cattle slaughter, without creating parallel systems of care or utilization, have flooded villages with stray, unproductive cattle. Governments, already broke, now scramble to feed them. Farmers, already tired, have to fence their fields just to survive a crop cycle. Barbed wire is booming not food production. So in essence, we create the problem, then pay to fix the damage. That’s not protection. That’s circular policy madness.
This isn’t just fencing land- it’s fencing logic. If we don’t rethink the root, we’ll soon be harvesting nothing but rust and regret.
