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A growing urban middle-class is consuming more higher-value, high protein foods, which is stoking food price inflation and changing business and farm models in rural India.
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Image: A farmer spreads fertiliser on his field in Satara district, about 285 km south of Mumbai.
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Image: Farmer Ajit Govind Sable displays harvested red capsicums which were grown inside a poly house in Satara district.
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Image: Farmer Ajit Govind Sable walks down an aisle inside his poly house, where he grows capsicums and chillies, in Satara.
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Image: A boy, with his face covered with an empty onion sack to protect him from flies, takes a nap in an open air vegetable market in New Delhi.
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Image: A farmer spreads fertiliser on his field in Satara district in Maharashtra.
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Image: A woman farmer carries cucumbers from her field to sell in the markets in Allahabad.
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