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Editor's note: When it comes to agriculture, it sometimes seems like most of the news is bad news, at least for the farmers. And this theme has been repeating itself all across the globe, with disruptive forces unsettling the equations that farmers need to succeed in what is usually a gruelling environment. Whether it is increasing input costs, changing consumer preferences, the rains, the prices at the market and everything in between—something seems to go wrong a lot of the time. At this moment, the news tells us that a drought is roasting vegetables in France and Dutch farmers are getting caught in climate change cutbacks, while crops are going up in flames across Europe, and a weak monsoon could jeopardize India’s own food production. Finding agriculture’s proverbial silver lining (or even a few green shoots), therefore, requires a fair bit of optimism and quite a bit of searching. But given its importance to our collective future, try we must. Farming does have its bright spots Despite the decades of apathy and mismanagement on the part of successive governments, agriculture continues to …