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If building something on agricultural land is hard, it is good: it is called agricultural for a reason. Maybe buying a parcel of industrial or commercial land would have ended up cheaper?


Author of the article here:

All the land in India is agricultural by default. Except in some desert states.


Fellow Pune resident here. I think there is a potential for a transparency startup here. Parts of stuff like these exist. I would buy you lunch/ beer/ whatever to learn from some of your experiences.


I'm building a startup for solving this. Let's meet. Twitter DM @ mrohanshah


Really? Lots of land parcels are identified as Non-agricultural.


Yeah. His motivations seem a bit suspicious. Is he so ignorant to claim all land in India is agricultural land.


Sure it's not 100% but more like 50.4%.


Guess which country has the most arable land in the world?


Hey author, this is OP. Thanks for documenting your ordeal.




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