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India Calls its Grasslands “Wastelands”; it’s a ₹1.3 lakh Crore Mistake!

The Morning Brief
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26 December 2025

Half your milk comes from animals grazing on land the government calls wasteland. The mutton in your biryani? Same story. We’re talking ₹1.3 lakh crore annually 5% of India’s GDP built on ecosystems we’ve systematically mislabeled as worthless since the British needed a tax category for “land we can’t monetize.

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