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Best Cheap Android Phones in 2020
Source: Alex Dobie / Android Central
It's 2020, and flagship smartphones are all nearly a thousand dollars or more. But as high-end phones get more expensive, cheaper phones are getting better. Phones under $300 are beautifully designed, with great screens, super-long battery life, excellent cameras, and awesome speakers. We've researched and ranked all of the best cheap Android phones you can buy, and with our buyer's guide, you'll find the perfect phone for you.
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The Moto G7 and its other budget counterparts on this list have impressive, high-resolution touchscreens, reliable software, and great cameras. Some features, like NFC, drive up manufacturing costs, so you have to weigh whether you need NFC-enabled features like mobile payments. And the Moto G7 also lacks the same graphical power as its more expensive competitors, but most games play without issue, even at medium or high settings, because Android games are designed to play on hardware of all sizes and prices.
At the same time, Motorola's given the G7 a computational and memory upgrade, shipping the new Snapdragon 632 along with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage standard, numbers that would have been unheard of in a $300 phone just two years ago.
The Moto G7 has all the major features you need from a modern smartphone.
Motorola has had years of practice making the Moto G line into a budget powerhouse; when it designed the first Moto G back in 2013, it eschewed expensive materials like metal and glass and focused instead on the core experience. Starting in 2016, Motorola began finding ways to add essential features like fingerprint sensors, and now the Moto G7 is made from a premium-feeling and resilient plastic frame and is covered on the front and back with Gorilla Glass.
But while the Moto G lineup tends to use less expensive components and materials, Motorola's excellent manufacturing results in a device that does not sacrifice quality.
At the same time, Motorola understands its audience, which is why it includes a dual-camera setup to the Moto G7. The second camera adds depth effects like portrait mode without sacrificing the excellent pedigree of the primary 12MP sensor.
Finally, if you're in the U.S., the Moto G7 is one of the few sub-$300 phones to work on all four U.S. carriers, and it's even sold directly at a few carriers, another advantage of Motorola's long-standing relationship with companies like Verizon.
U.S. buyers take note: The successors to the Moto G7, the Moto G Stylus and Moto G Power, are being released on April 16. Pre-orders are currently open for the two phones and once we review them they'll likely replace the two Moto G7 phones on this list.
Best Value: Nokia 6.2
Upgrade Pick: Google Pixel 3a
Upgrade Pick
Best Features: Samsung Galaxy A50
Best Build Quality: Nokia 7.2
Best Build Quality
Best Battery Life: Moto G7 Power
Best Battery Life
Best Under $200: Nokia 4.2
Best Under $100: Nokia 5
Best With a Caveat: Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro
Best With a Caveat
Best Outside the U.S.: Moto G8 Plus
Best Outside the U.S.
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Great build quality and design
Excellent main rear camera
Compatible with all major U.S. and international carriers
Moto Display adds tremendous value
Moto G line isn't known for swift software updates
Lacks NFC
The best budget Android phone for most people
Motorola's 2019 Moto G is well-built, nicely-designed, and has some excellent upgrades over its predecessor, including a faster processor, improved display, and rear fingerprint sensor.
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If you like maximizing your bang-for-buck, it's impossible to ignore the Nokia 6.2. This is a product that brings a tremendous amount of value to the smartphone space, and it all starts with the design. The Nokia 6.2 looks and feels like a much more expensive phone than it is, thanks to the striking glass back, polycarbonate frame, and 6.3-inch Full HD+ display with slim bezels and a small waterdrop notch.
Other specs for the phone are just as impressive, including three rear cameras, 64GB of expandable storage, a 3,500 mAh battery, and charging via USB-C. You also get a dedicated button for the Google Assistant, along with an NFC chip for Google Pay.
Being limited to AT&T and T-Mobile is a bit of a letdown, but assuming you use one of those two carriers, the Nokia 6.2 is an easy choice.
Beautiful glass design
Clean and simple Android One software
Three rear cameras
Google Assistant button
One of the best values Android has to offer
For folks that love finding a good deal, the Nokia 6.2 is one of the best Android phones available.
The Pixel 3a manages to pack all of the best parts of the standard Pixel 3 into a more affordable package by using a middle-of-the-road chipset and a polycarbonate body. The result is a nearly identical-looking phone for hundreds less that takes incredible photos using the same image processing and Night Sight technology.
While it'll run you an extra Benjamin over the Moto G7, the Pixel 3a is without a doubt the phone you should look at if photography is your main priority. It's not just good for its price, the Pixel 3a takes some of the best photos of any phone on the market, even though it only has one lens. You also get a squeaky clean build of Android with three years of guaranteed software updates. It's also available at three of the four major U.S. carriers, which is a first for the Pixel lineup.
Incredible camera
Excellent build quality with polycarbonate shell
Three years of updates
Clean Android build
Available at most carriers
$400 isn't super cheap
Performance is a bit slow
The uncontested budget photography king
The Pixel 3a takes absolutely stunning photos, and comes with the promise of three years of software updates. It's a bit pricey compared to other phones on this list, but it's the best photography option by a mile.
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Samsung isn't usually associated with good cheap phones — at least that used to be the case — but starting in 2019, the company has invested tremendously in its new Galaxy A line, bringing the best features of its flagships down to a much more reasonable price bracket. The Galaxy A50 is one such beneficiary, with a beautiful 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display — probably the best on this list — along with a super-fast Exynos 9610 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a massive 4000mAh battery.
But the pièce de résistance of the Galaxy A50 is its triple rear camera setup, which includes a primary 25MP sensor, an 8MP secondary super wide-angle camera, and a third 5MP sensor for depth. There's also a massive 25MP front-facing selfie camera, too, hidden in the teardrop notch.
To justify its $275 to $350 price (depending on where you buy it), Samsung's included an under-display fingerprint sensor, something missing on all the other phones on this list. Samsung's also making a big deal of its One UI software, which runs on top of Android 9 Pie, though an update to Android 10 is coming soon.
Big, beautiful AMOLED display
Excellent triple camera setup
Samsung's One UI is among the best Android skins around
Huge 4,000mAh battery
Unlocked model lacks NFC
Primary camera isn't quite as good as Nokia 7.1 or Pixel 3a
Samsung's best budget phone in years.
Samsung's bringing its A-game with the Galaxy A50, a fantastic device that you can (and should) pick up for under $300 if you value plenty of features and a beautiful display.
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The Nokia 7.2 is the successor to the ultra-successful (see what we did there?) Nokia 7.1, and it's better in every way. It continues the company's legacy of outstanding build quality with a super-strong polycarbonate frame — that green colorway is even nicer-looking in real life — that feels like metal but can withstand scratches and drops far better.
The hardware has been given a nice boost over the 7.1, too: a Snapdragon 660 processor powers the Nokia 7.2, along with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which ensures it's going to last well into the 2020s. Nokia also puts Android One on all of its phones, providing at least two platform updates and regular security patches — something the company has over our top pick, the Moto G7.
But the real reason to look into the Nokia 7.2 is its triple-camera setup, which includes a massive 48MP primary camera. You can also choose to use the ultra-wide camera for incredible landscape shots, or grab some impressive portrait photos with the dedicated depth sensor.
Great build quality
Awesome big screen
Triple camera is super useful
Android One software is unbeatable
Works on Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T
Snapdragon 660 is already quite dated
Doesn't work on Sprint
Hard to beat, harder to destroy
The Nokia 7.2 is an excellent follow-up to one of our favorite phones. It's fast, beautiful, and can withstand abuse. What more do you want?
If you're more into viewing content than worrying about how good that content looks, the Moto G7 Power is the better choice than the Moto G7 — or practically any other budget handset. It's got a massive 5000mAh battery that keeps it going longer than almost any phone on the market, but trades in some screen resolution — its 6.2-inch display is only 720p, compared to the 1080p panel on the main Moto G7.
Other than that, though, the Moto G7 Power has the same basic specs as the G7 — a Snapdragon 632 processor and 3GB of RAM, as well as a rear fingerprint sensor and a 12MP rear camera. It also features Motorola's excellent Android software, which takes Google's stock Android Pie and adds a bunch of Moto Experiences, including an unmatched ambient display and some handy gestures.
But really, the main draw here is the price — and the amount of crazy uptime you're going to get with this phone. If you're not the kind of person who likes to charge their phone every night, or just uses it all the time, this is the one to get.
Huge battery lasts days, not hours
Great software experience
Decent rear camera
Works on all four U.S. carriers
Low-res 720p display with a notch
Motorola has a poor software update track record
No NFC support
The biggest battery you'll find today.
If battery life is your primary concern, and screen or photo quality less so, the Moto G7 Power is the best phone you can buy. Just beware of slow updates.
If you were impressed by the Nokia 7.1's build materials for the money, the Nokia 4.2 features the same design, and similar construction (the frame is metal, but the body is plastic) for just over half the price. Its tiny teardrop notch means you get an almost all-display device, and you still get Android 9 Pie thanks to the phone being part of the Android One program. You also get an update to Android 10 in Q2 2020, which shouldn't be long now.
There's a fingerprint sensor along the back, and a dedicated Google Assistant button on the side for quick voice commands. The power button doubles as a notification LED, glowing different colors to denote specific apps, and remarkably, this $190 phone has NFC to allow for Google Pay — something you rarely see in this price range.
You do have to sacrifice a bit of performance, but in the end, Nokia's latest is a steal at under $200.
Outstanding build materials
NFC-compatible
Android One with Pie out of the box
Notification LED in the power button
Smooth performance over Snapdragon 439
Micro- USB charging
Not CDMA-compatible
Excellent hardware and clean software on the cheap
The Nokia 4.2 has a fantastic metal and glass design and a clean build of Android 9 Pie with the promise of timely, continued updates thanks to Android One. It even has NFC for mobile payments. For under $200, there's really not a lot to complain about.
Nokia does inexpensive phones well, and that includes older models like the Nokia 5. A little bit of time on the market has dropped the price on this phone, but unlike most cheaper devices Nokia hasn't left it behind in terms of software updates — so you can buy with confidence knowing you'll still be supported.
The specs don't jump off the page, with only 2GB of RAM and a 5.2-inch display, but there's enough horsepower to get the basics done.
Fingerprint sensor for quick authentication
Compatible with GSM networks in the U.S.
Very modest specs
Basic cameras
Relatively small screen
A super-low price tag with outsized value.
You get all the basics, and nothing more — but you save a ton, and get simple software that's kept up to date.
Source: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central
Xiaomi isn't a well-known name in the West, but it should be: this company is making some of the best Android phones you can buy, for considerably less than competitors like Samsung or even Nokia.
For under $300, you're getting a phone that looks and feels the part of a much more expensive phone, with capable specs and a huge 4500mAh battery. You also get a triple camera anchored by a capable 64MP main shooter, and a big display. The big downside is Xiaomi's software, which is a bit grating compared to the competition, and may not be updated as frequently or for as long as we'd like.
U.S. buyers take note: The version on Amazon U.S. is an international model and won't work on Sprint or Verizon or any of their MVNOs. It will work perfectly on AT&T and T-Mobile. It also has no U.S. warranty.
Robust hardware
64MP camera is a great addition
MIUI software isn't for everyone
May not receive updates as often as phones in the West
Everything you could want in terms of specs for the money.
Xiaomi absolutely rocks it when it comes to low-price phones with great specs. Get a big screen, long battery life and a modern design for a good price.
The Moto G line is a consistently great choice for those looking to save money while not compromising on the core smartphone experience. The Moto G8 Plus follows the same proven formula, with good enough specs nicely combined in an attractive hardware package.
You're getting a 6.3-inch display, updated Snapdragon 665 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of expandable storage and a healthy 4000 mAh battery. That's really good for the money, and it's paired with Motorola's simple and useful software. You also get a triple camera setup now with a dedicated ultra-wide lens for interesting shots.
Big display
Large battery
Triple camera system
Motorola's software updates can be slow
Not yet available in the U.S.
It's hard to beat the value of a Moto G.
The Moto G8 keeps up Motorola's value-focused legacy. You get solid specs, a big battery, an attractive design, a triple camera, and simple software.
There's no shortage of excellent Android phones these days, whether you want to spend more than $700, less than $300, or even $100. The above phones represent the best of a set limitation — that of not wanting to overspend on a product that, inevitably, will need to be replaced in a couple of years.
But that's the beauty of a device that costs a third of what you'd spend on a Galaxy S10 or Pixel 4. It offers 90% of what those phones cost and can be replaced more easily. While you may miss out on some of the more advanced features like waterproofing and wireless charging, and you may not receive as many updates, or for as long, these phones represent a new breed of budget devices, you can feel confident in buying.
And the Moto G7 is the best value of the bunch.
Splurging on the best overall phone that throws in everything and the kitchen sink isn't always the ideal solution — especially when you're looking at cost-cutting phones in the first place. Instead, you should figure out what you value the most. If you're looking for an excellent battery life, the Moto G7 Power is absolutely worth the money over the standard G7. Similarly, the Pixel 3a easily has the best camera, and if you're looking for luxurious hardware, it's tough to beat the Nokia 7.2. Every manufacturer has something of value to offer.
Daniel Bader is the Managing Editor of Android Central. As he's writing this, a mountain of old Android phones is about to fall on his head, but his Great Dane will protect him. He drinks way too much coffee and sleeps too little. He wonders if there's a correlation.
Andrew Martonik is the Executive Editor, U.S. at Android Central. He has been a mobile enthusiast since the Windows Mobile days and covering all things Android-related with a unique perspective at AC since 2012. For suggestions and updates, you can reach him at andrew.martonik@androidcentral.com or on Twitter at @andrewmartonik.
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Concorso D'Eleganza Villa D'Este is a VIP annual event in Italy that draws millionaires and billionaires to see some of the world's rarest and most valuable historic cars. The Concorso d'Eleganza, is hosted every year by grand hotel, Villa d'Este on the shores of Lake Como.
What is Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este?
Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este is one of the top annual classic events for classic and vintage cars in Italy, Europe.
It takes place in the second half of May, near the Villa d'Este hotel in Cernobbio, on the western shore of Lake Como.
Visitors can see about fifty cars, built between the 1920s and the 1970s. Also, car makers take advantage of the event to showcase some of their upcoming models. The event has been organized by BMW Group and the Villa d'Este hotel for the last ten years. The Selecting Committee will choose the most exceptional automotive masterpieces before they are judged by the panel of Jury members.
The focus on preservation, design, originality, and the spirit of nobility bring together the most important and beautiful cars from all over the world. The cars are organized in different categories and an exclusive panel of experts judges the cars to select the Best of Show prize, the BMW Group Trophy.
This trophy is reserved for an extraordinary automobile. The Coppa d'Oro Villa d'Este is the most traditional prize of the Concorso and the award is decided by a public vote at the Villa d'Este.
A prize awarded to the contemporary Concept Car was introduced in 2002 and this prize has been a regular feature of the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este since then. The trophy creates a link between the glorious past and the exciting future of the automobile.
The spectacular success of the Concorso has been largely empowered by the partnership of the BMW Group as the organiser of this event since 2005. This competition also goes back to roots of the Concorso when designers and automobile companies presented their latest automobiles to the public. About 10 to 12 Concept Cars & Prototypes are showcased here. Some of them make their world debut during their days at Lake Como and the winner of the award is elected by public vote at the Villa Erba on Sunday.
This event is a remarkable experience because of the atmosphere, the gardens of Villa d'Este and the view of Lake Como.
The history of Concorso D'Eleganza Villa D'Este
It was first held in Cernobbio near Lake Como in Italy on the 1st of September 1929. It has been more than 90 years from the first time this event took place.
From May 24-26th, 2018, the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este gathers classic automobile and historic motorcycle enthusiasts from all around the world each year as they watch the participating cars and their owners compete for the significant and most sought-after "Trofeo BMW Group" prizes.
Concorso D'Eleganza Villa D'Este 2022 dates
The Grand Hotel Villa d'Este will once again host one of the world's most prestigious heritage events for historic vehicles from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd May 2022.
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Owners of vintage and historic cars and motorcycles may enter the competition in several classes to compete for trophies and awards. The public at Villa d'Este are really important as they reward participants with applause and cast their votes.
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65% of the people say Over Exposed when they speak about Paris Hilton.
According to Los Angeles-based E-Poll Market Research, which provides "appeal" rankings for nearly 4,500 celebrities. To put that in perspective, most celebrities average between 3% and 7% on the E-Poll celebrity index during the peak of their careers.But Hilton isn't the only star to have worn out her public welcome. Audiences have tired of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Pamela Anderson, among others. And while overexposure may have less to do with the precise number of headlines than it does the public's perception, the 10 celebrities on our list have proved that familiarity can, and does, breed contempt.
All press is good press, the old adage goes. This does not apply to Paris Hilton.The celebutante's every move, from her club-hopping to her jail stint to her search for a new best friend has proved fodder for the flashbulbs and celebrity press. But what has the incessant coverage garnered her? Eye rolls–and worse, audience disinterest
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"Is it the paparazzi's fault? They contribute," says Lori Levine, chief executive of talent brokering firm Flying Television. "Is it the insatiable appetite of the American public? That contributes. Is it the invention and obsession with YouTube? Yes, that contributes too."
And don't forget the growing list of spotlight-seeking stars that chase the flashbulbs as much–if not more–than the flashbulbs chase them. Consider Lohan, third on our list, who seems to make a habit of migrating to paparazzi stalking grounds like Les Deux, Villa and trendy eatery Katsuya.
Star Editor-in-Chief Candace Trunzo says that if celebrities don't want to line the pages of her magazine, they don't have to. "By and large, if you really want to be a private person and live a private life, you can do it," she says, citing Johnny Depp as an example.
But many crave the limelight for good reason. Unlike Depp, they don't have a steady stream of projects keeping them in the public eye. Rather, they rely on media attention to keep them relevant–and famous.
Take The Hills' best friend-turned-best enemy Heidi Montag, who lands at No. 10 on our list. With both her music and fashion forays proving flops, she has managed to parlay her on-again-off-again relationships and outings with MTV co-star Lauren Conrad and bad boy beau Spencer Pratt into tabloid-worthy fodder. (Had we expanded our list, Pratt would have ranked No. 12).
"Heidi and Spencer have turned overexposure into an art form," says In Touch Editor-in-Chief Richard Spencer, who marvels at the flashbulb-focused lovers' vast numbers of petty feuds and photo ops.
Levine agrees. "Heidi and Spencer are the ones that really understand, more than anyone else, what it takes," she says. "They're unabashedly unashamed about being completely overexposed." And their reward for it: Still more exposure.
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Agricultural Households and Farming Income: An initial analysis of variations in income from farming and other sources among agricultural households in India
Harish Damodaran, Samridhi Agarwal, Mekhala Krishnamurthy
The Agriculture Census for 2015-16 placed the number of "operational holdings" at 146.45 million. The farmer here is somebody cultivating land without necessarily owning it. The land may be a single piece or multiple plots owned or taken on lease; what matters is the entire area ("holding") being managed ("operated") by the same person ("cultivator") alone or with others.
The National Statistical Office's (NSO) recently released 'Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Livestock Holdings of Households in Rural India, 2019' report has a different definition. The SAS doesn't focus on operational holdings as the basic unit or on the number of farmers but identifies "agricultural households." Agricultural households are defined as households having at least one member self-employed in farming and whose annual value of produce from such activity exceeds Rs 4,000. Farming or "agricultural activity" includes cultivation of crops (field, horticultural, plantation and fodder) as well as animal husbandry (dairying, poultry, goat/sheep-rearing, piggery, inland fishery, beekeeping, sericulture, etc.). Self-employment in agriculture can further be either in "principal" or even "subsidiary" status not less than 30 days during the survey reference period of six months (in this case, July-December 2018 for visit-1 and January-June 2019 for visit-2). India, as per this report, had 93.09 million "agricultural households" in 2018-19 (July-June) and 101.98 operational holdings. Of these, 89.58 million holdings were possessed by agricultural households, while 12.40 holdings were possessed by non-agricultural households (i.e., even if the plot was put towards some agricultural production, the household itself was not classified as agricultural by the definition above.
There might be a number of reasons that explain the huge variation—53.36 million – between the Agriculture Census' and the NSO's estimates.
The Agricultural Census is collected on a complete enumeration basis. This exercise involves re-tabulation of data from village land records that most states maintain for collating individual field and crop-wise area statistics. The NSO estimates of agricultural households, by contrast, are based on a survey design. The survey sample size for 2018-19 covered 58,035 households (45,714 agricultural) in visit-1 and 56,894 (44,770) in visit-2.
As long as some part of a plot of land has been used towards agricultural production, it is classified as an operational holding. The Agricultural Census begins with the status of the plot, whether it is owned by urban or rural, agricultural or non-agricultural households. The SAS begins with classifying rural households.
Members within a household may operate multiple holdings. While the Agricultural Census treats each of them as separate operational holdings, the NSO's focus is on the agricultural household. All lands operated individually or jointly by all members of a household are taken as a single production unit or holding. So, if you used the Agricultural Census to estimate the number of farmers, you would consider each operational landholding as representing a farmer. But if you used the SAS, you would be working with the category of agricultural household, even though there might be more than one operational landholding and more than one 'farmer' residing in that household.
Given the expansive definition of "agricultural household" used by the SAS, it would follow that agricultural households would likely have multiple sources of income. In this note, we seek to try to understand what this data reveals in terms of the degree of dependance that agricultural households have on different sources of income, how this varies by land possessed and by state, and what the implications of this might be for agricultural, economic and social policy.
For this analysis, we consider net receipts (after deducting paid-out expenses) from crop production plus farming of animals as a percentage of the agricultural household's total income from all sources. The latter includes income from wages/salary and leasing out of land, net receipts from non-farm business, and earnings from pension/remittance. A ratio above 50 per cent can be construed as significant agricultural dependence.
According to the SAS, the average total monthly income of an agricultural household in India during 2018-19 was Rs 10,829. Out of that, the share of farm income – Rs 3,798 from crop and Rs 1,582 from animal agriculture – was 49.7%. For the average agricultural household, the largest single-source of income was wages/salary (Rs 4,063). This has been cited by a number of analysts to conclude that the average Indian farmer is more of a labourer today (https://bit.ly/3i9Kws3).
Any all-India average, though, hides considerable differences between states and also between landholding sizes. Chart 1 shows the average farming income dependence among agricultural households to be below a third or even a fifth in Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh, while amounting to over 50% for Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and crossing 60% in Punjab, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Meghalaya. (A recent analysis suggests the Meghalaya data may require a closer look and that tasks remains to be undertaken).
Farm income dependence is, moreover, a function of landholding size too. The following charts shows state-wise ratios of net farm receipts (from crop cultivation plus animal husbandry) to total agricultural household incomes across seven size classes of land possessed: <0.01 hectare, 0.01-0.4 hectare, 0.41-1 hectare, 1.01-2 hectares, 2.01-4 hectares, 4.01-10 hectares and above 10 hectares. "Land possessed", it may be noted, is defined as land owned plus land leased-in minus land leased-out plus public/institutional land encroached upon without ownership/occupancy right. A farmer, by this definition, needn't own any land. An agricultural household can "possess" land by growing crops or raising animals entirely on other's land taken on lease.
What clearly emerges from our charts is that farming income dependence is less – between 26% and 44% at an all-India level – when holdings are one hectare and below. But the 50% threshold is surpassed thereafter, rising to 70% in the 2.01-4 hectares land possessed size class and almost touching 90% for above 10 hectares. The 50% threshold is crossed for a majority of states even when land possessed size exceeds one hectare. In the top two size categories – four hectares and above – income from farming contributes over 50 percent of all income for agricultural households in nearly all states. The variations across all charts are of course significant and striking, a point to which we will return later.
In terms of numbers, how many agricultural households in India are primarily dependent on farming income as the largest source of their overall household income?
The NSO Situation Assessment report has state-wise estimates of agricultural households for different size classes based on total land possessed. We have already worked out the ratios of farm income to total agricultural household income for all states across each of these size classes (Charts 2 to 8). Taking only those land size classes for which the farm income dependence ratios are 50% or higher, and adding up the corresponding estimated number of agricultural households, gives us a figure of farming income-dependent households in each state. For instance, Andhra Pradesh has 31.59 lakh agricultural households in all. But the 50% farm income threshold is crossed only for households having more than two hectares of possessed land. They number just 7.46 lakh, or 23.6% of the total agricultural households in the state.
Using the above methodology, we have calculated the number of significantly farming-income dependent households for all states. To repeat, agricultural households deriving a significant share of their income – 50% or more – from farming activity per se. It can be seen from the table below that this population is just over 36 million, which is approximately 39% of the total 93 million-odd agricultural households estimated by the NSO. It is, of course, even lower compared to the 146.5 million operational holdings in the country, as per the Agricultural Census for 2015-16. A previous estimate made by one of the authors of the present note had suggested that there are 47-50 million farmers that derive a significant part of their income from agriculture.
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State-wise estimates of Farming income dependent farmers (in thousands)
Farming income dependent
households Total agricultural households % of Farming income dependant households
Jharkhand 6.6 2808 0.24
Kerala 8.1 1466.9 0.55
West Bengal 75.7 6626.2 1.14
Jammu & Kashmir 12.3 658.3 1.86
Tamil Nadu 60.3 2597.7 2.32
Odisha 283.7 4815.3 5.89
Tripura 25.3 289.3 8.75
Himachal Pradesh 140.5 1034.2 13.59
Sikkim 10.4 65.2 15.95
Uttarakhand 172.9 983.4 17.58
Assam 637.6 3099.7 20.57
Andhra Pradesh 745.5 3159.4 23.60
Haryana 710 1906.7 37.24
Chhattisgarh 1302.6 2985 43.64
Rajasthan 3267.4 7041.5 46.40
Bihar 3351.6 7011.3 47.80
Madhya Pradesh 3489.9 7276.3 47.96
Uttar Pradesh 8746.5 17789.5 49.17
Maharashtra 3646.6 7289.3 50.03
Telangana 1528.2 2668.5 57.27
Punjab 884.3 1473.8 60.00
Gujarat 2499.9 4037.1 61.92
Manipur 166.4 241.2 68.99
Meghalaya 272.2 364.7 74.64
Karnataka 3664 4251.6 86.18
Mizoram 71.5 76.4 93.59
Nagaland 181.6 191.8 94.68
Arunachal Pradesh 152.40 152.4 100
ALL-INDIA 36114 92360.7 39.1
Note: All-India figures are sum total of all states. The total agricultural households are slightly less than the 93.09 million given in the main NSO Situation Assessment report.
Policy conclusions and recommendations
This note has attempted to make a few key points. First, that estimates for the number of farmers in India based on available national statistical data varies depending on whether you count and base your assumptions on the number of "operational landholdings" or the number of "agricultural households."
Second, as per the SAS 2019, among the 93 million agricultural households estimated to live in rural India in 2018-19, there is significant variation in the degree of dependence that households have on farming income. The degree of dependence varies across the size of landholding possessed. The NSO Situational Analysis report shows that the 50% farm income-to-total agricultural household income threshold is crossed at an all-India level only when the land possessed size exceeds one hectare or 2.5 acres. The fact is that 70% of agricultural households in the country do not possess even this minimum.
Third, this analysis of the SAS estimates that farming income contributes 50 percent or more of overall income for only 39 percent of agricultural households in India or approximately 36 million households. This may be thought of as the number of farmers who are able to make a living from agriculture, that is, make at least half or more of their living from farming. There are only ten states where this proportion is over 50 percent of the state's agricultural households.
What are the policy implications emerging from this data and analysis?
Given the diverse role and place of agriculture in the lives and livelihoods of agrarian households and communities, it is not for us or for anyone else to conclude that the value of agricultural land or of farming can be simply equated with the amount or proportion of household income that it brings in. However, both the low levels of total household income and the very low earnings from farming for the vast majority of agricultural households is a harsh reality. Given the very small size of landholding possessed by most farming households, it is also a reality that most agricultural households are increasingly dependent on income from wages and other sources to meet their needs. This, then, is largely a process of distress-driven diversification. The reasons are structural and reflect deep problems with both the agricultural and non-agricultural economy.
Addressing these different, but interrelated challenges will require both much greater understanding of and investment in farming as livelihood and enterprise, as well as reimagining agriculture and rural livelihoods beyond the farm.
To start with, one must recognise that farming is a specialised and skilled economic activity and enterprise. We must not continue to keep treating it as a welfare sector or an endlessly absorptive residual/subsistence economy. Not everyone can, or need be a farmer. Agriculture policy should prioritise and support those for whom farming is their major source of income. This includes the design and delivery of Minimum support prices, government procurement, agricultural market reforms, infrastructure, irrigation, fertiliser and other input subsidies, Kisan Credit Card loans, crop insurance and export-import policies on farm commodities.
It is especially important to remember that farmers with sizeable operational landholdings, from which they earn the majority of their income, may not be the owners of that land. While India's statistical data focuses on 'operational' holdings and land 'possessed', agricultural policy remains steadfastly attached to land 'ownership' as a primary criterion for many schemes, benefits and transfers to farmers. This disadvantages many risk-taking and entrepreneurial cultivators across the country. Even a scheme like Pradhan Mantri Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan), which provides an income support of Rs 6,000 per year for some 110 million beneficiaries could be much more effectively designed and directed. This will help increase the quantum of support to those who need to be encouraged to remain in or expand their agriculture business. The ongoing protests against the Narendra Modi government's agriculture reform laws are, perhaps, an expression of the accumulated frustrations and crises facing a prominent section of India's farming-income dependent households, but they are by no means the only such farmers across the country.
What should be done for the 70% farm households that are mostly dependent on other income sources to eke out a living? Crop-based agriculture policy cannot obviously be the only or main answer. Livestock-based livelihoods are also very important here. Depending on the context, it is possible for even a one-acre farmer to rear five cows and sell 30 litres of milk daily from three at any given time, while dedicating her entire land to growing high-protein fodder crops. The same land can, alternatively, house a broiler farm with up to 10,000 birds and six batches being sold in a year. There are likely to be other, agroecologically and economically better strategies that need to be prioritised.
Further, there is also likely to be significant scope for value-addition and employment outside rather than on the farm as well – be it in aggregating, grading, packaging, transporting, processing, warehousing and retailing the produce, not to speak of supply of agri-inputs, machinery and other services to farmers. All these activities fall within the realm of agriculture, even if outside the farm. Agriculture policy should aim at not only increasing farm incomes, but also adding value to produce outside and closer to the farms. Finally, these will necessarily have to be state-specific and within them region and location-specific strategies that locate rural households at the centre of a larger vision for agricultural and economic development. Policies, moreover, that better understand farm/non-farm interlinkages and better support and enable the necessary and challenging processes and dynamics of diversification on and off the farm.
This note, part of the Understanding the Rural Economy series by CPR, has been authored by Harish Damodaran, Mekhala Krishnamurthy and Samridhi Agarwal.
Find all previous notes as part of the series here:
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Carbohydrates to proteins and back: How dietary and cropping diversification seems to have gone into reverse by Harish Damodaran, Mekhala Krishnamurthy and Samridhi Agarwal.
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U2 unveiled "The Blackout," a dynamic new track from their upcoming album Songs of Experience on the band's Facebook page. The album follows 2014's Grammy-nominated album, Songs of Innocence.
"The Blackout" video was covertly filmed during the European leg of the Joshua Tree 2017 tour, U2gigs reports, at Amsterdam's Westerunie venue in late July. The allegorical lyrics about the destruction of the Earth and renewal appear to have political undertones, as Bono sings: "Dinosaur wonders why it still walks the Earth, yeah/ The meteor promises it's not gonna hurt" … "When the lights go out/ In the darkness where we learn to see."
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Day 19 – Most memorable scene
Like for many other beanies my most memorable scene was in When the Weather Is Fine. When Ji Eun-shil asked Lee Jang-woo why he was working in this small town when he graduated from SNU, and he told her that he just wants to live an ordinary live – I was very touched by his answer. He knew exactly what he wanted and lived his life to achieve his dream of an ordinary life. When I watched this scene, I felt lost in real life. I was almost 30 and my first year as a full-time employee was over. However, when someone asked me, if this is what I want to do I would say no. But I couldn't say what I wanted to do instead. That's why Jang-woo's answer struck me so deeply. This year I learned a lot about myself and what I want to do career-wise, and I don't feel this lost anymore. Yet, the scene is still memorable to me.
Day 20 – Cameo that blew up your mind
I like cameos that are intelligently woven into the story. Like Choi Ji-woo meeting her North-Korean fanboy, or Yeo Jin-goo who gave Han Ji-pyeong the possibility to pay back what he owed in a different way. The one that blew up my mind was Kwak Dong-yeon in It's Okay to Not Be Okay. His role was so perfectly written into the two episodes, I didn't think it was only a cameo at first. Kwak Dong-yeon also played the role so phenomenally that he has to be mentioned for that alone.
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I'd forgotten about that scene! I remember thinking that he makes a good point in that there is nothing wrong with enjoying an ordinary life and that it truly can be a good life.
It was a really good reminder that a dream about living an ordinary life is just as important as wanting to achieve something extraordinary and unique.
Day 18 – One you want to rant about
The last drama I wanted to rant about was Hwayugi. I loved this drama so much that I watched every episode without subtitles and once again when it was subbed. It lost its steam at the end, but I wasn't ready for the let-down in the last episode. Gosh, was I upset! I even ranted about it to my poor colleagues who knew almost nothing about Korean dramas and even less about Hwayugi. Since then, I never felt so upset again. Either the drama is bad from the beginning or the middle part and I couldn't care less anymore by the end, or I avoided the disappointing end by dropping a drama soon in time (Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol!!).
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I am up to the last episode of Hwayugi and I am steeling myself 😄 keep finding reasons to put it off because I know I'm not going to be happy
I hope I didn't spoil anything! But sometimes it helps to expect the worst so you won't be disappointed as much 😄 It was this way in Flower of Evil for me.
You didn't, I knew the reputation before I even started watching – better to be prepared 😅
That's good. At the moment I'm trying to persuade my best friend to watch it with me. Time heals wounds, I guess 😀 Enjoy the last episodes! (Just to make sure: It's not meant to be sarcastic.)
I dropped Hwayugi at the penultimate episode. I'd never done that before.
Day 17 – One that made you emotional
As I have PMS, there are days I react emotionally to scenes, even if they are not actually emotional. But even without this, 18 Again had me in tears often. The reconciliation scene between father and son after the basketball game was very touching. Such was the moment at the school festival when Hong Dae-young, as Go Woo-young, heard the same song as 20 years earlier after he had confessed to Jung Da-jung. His longing for her was so palpable.
Ja-sung's growth also made me really emotional. I was so proud of him when he apologized to Shi-woo for the bullying. (As someone who was bullied by a lot of different peoples and groups in my hometown, I know how it feels like. But there were also two girls who apologized, and we became very good friends after some time.) And I swooned so hard when Ja-sung "saved" Shi-a and Ji-ho from the kids who chased them and warned them not to touch Shi-a AND his "rival" Ji-ho. There were so many other scenes that made me all emotional in a good way. I laughed and cried so often; I can't name another drama like this in this year.
Day 15 – Secondary character you will never forget
The first character that came into my mind was Han Ji-pyeong, but I mentioned him in my list of male leads already. So, I'm writing about Lee Jang-woo (Lee Jae-wook) in I'll Go to You When the Weather Is Fine instead. He was a social butterfly, had the cutest crush on Ji Eun-shil, tried to be a good friend, even though Im Eun-seob was really reserved, and knew exactly what he wanted. I want more characters like him – simply grounded people with a normal life with whom one can identify.
I love him too. I didn't know who he was when he was in that drama, but I did really catch my eyes. The way he portrayed the character was refreshingly unique; he made his character stand out and charming in its own way -the way Kim Seon-ho did to the character Han Ji-pyeong. These second leads normally get male lead roles in the end if they can do what these actors did.
Well, I just hope Kim Seon-ho's next drama as a lead won't end as disappointing as Lee Jae-wook's first drama as a lead.
He did pretty well in the first 13 episodes though. *feel eternally thankful for the Beanies' suggestion to stop watching at the end of ep13.
I, too, hope that KSH will be fine in his first male lead role after Start-Up. I want him just to be himself; he already radiates so much by being like that. 😊
I stopped at ep 12 because ep 13 was aired two weeks later, I guess. I wanted to watch the rest when the drama was finished. But then Start-Up happened and I was preoccupied 😉 I should be thankful for the distraction from Kim Seon-ho 🙂
I know firsthand how distracting that must have been. KSH just stole the show and I almost forgot the lovely DoDo couple. Being occupied with Start-Up I was a couple of episodes late and the going downhill thing happened…
Day 14 – The drama that could have been …
While 2020 had bad dramas (like every year has) I want to write about a drama I liked a lot: It's Okay to Not Be Okay. I started this drama mainly for Seo Ye-ji and she was wonderful and gorgeous in it. The dark fantasy themes were so compelling, almost all characters were interesting, it was beautifully shot, and the leads had amazing chemistry from the beginning. Gu Moon-young's and Moon Gang-tae's traumata felt so real and it was great to see them overcame their past bit by bit – they went from screaming and crying to smiling happily for a family picture.
And it would have been perfect in my eyes, if the mother had remained faceless. The story-arc around her made this wonderful and extraordinary drama fall flat and ordinary. It is still a mostly good drama overall, but it could have been simply perfect.
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I totally agree with you. The mum plot almost ruined the drama for me, it was not necessary, it added nothing to the story. The only good thing was that it was solved quickly and it wasn't an agony and in such a way that I decided to look aside all the huge plot holes regarding the dead-not-dead-mum-that-didn't-age-a-day-since-she-died-not that I still loved the drama. Even so, this drama can never make it to my top list just because of this.
It was such a shame, I was so ready to include it on my top list.
Day 13 – Most fashionable character
When I think about fashion the first characters who came into my mind are Yoon Se-ri and Go Moon-young. But while fast-forwarding through Crash Landing on You to take some screenshots of Yoon Se-ri, I decided to go with a male character: Gu Seung-jun. He looked so charming in his colourful suits, but also comfortable in his knitted sweaters. Normally, I don't pay much attention to the males' outfit, simply because females' outfits are most of the time more interesting. However, even next to Yoon Se-ri and Seo Dan, Gu Seung-jun managed to stand out.
He was stunning.
I will never get over his death 😭😭😭😭
Me neither 😭😭
It was just too cruel to let him die — he and Dan deserved better!
Karmen ~ 🍜🏢🎭 ~ 📚☔🦋 ~ 🪂🌱💘 ~ ✨🍊💫 ~
Sometimes his sweaters seemed a little over the top, but even so warm and soft!
I agree, but he can pull them off nevertheless!
I actually dig his white sweater in the first picture! I love this kind of knitted cable pattern.
Fly Colours
I love fluffy sweaters, so I'm biased, but I thought he looked comfy and pretty!
Day 12 – "Oldie" (not 2020) you loved
I've watched good old dramas for the first time last year, but I really want to name two dramas I rewatched. First: Chief Kim – Whenever I need something light to distract me from real life problems, this is my go-to drama. It has so many satisfying arcs and the character development of Chief Kim, Director Seol and Park Myung-suk belong to my favourite character developments in dramaland. At first, I didn't like the over-the-top humour then I eventually got used to it and after a while I thought it was the funniest drama ever (still think so).
The second one is more personal: Be Melodramatic. I live alone for more than ten years now (except for a few months during my exchange semester in Wales or when I was looking for a new apartment) and I actually enjoy living alone. I have a big family and whenever I visit my family I'm surrounded by a lot of people, which I find tiring, even though I love my family a lot. So, during lockdown I was glad that I didn't have to be locked up with my family. But I missed my best friend a lot. We don't live in the same city and we couldn't see each other this often, but the time we spent together were even more precious to me. Whenever I'm watching Be Melodramatic I'm reminded of her and our friendship. I loved this drama before but I came to love it even more this year.
The friendship in Be Melodramatic was wonderful! The show doesn't make a big fuss of it, but I remember at the end thinking that those women went through some heavy stuff, and they were always there for each other (and the brother, too, who's name I've just forgotten).
That's what I loved the most: the friendship seemed so natural and real. They supported each other without making a big deal about it, the brother included.
I would love to watch this drama with my best friend, but she lost her husband six years ago after an accident so it would hit too close to home. Maybe someday there will be an opportunity to watch it together. Their friendship is just too wonderfull to enjoy it alone.
I understand toy so much about living alone and having a big family and being relieved not having spent the lockdown with them…
And also about your love for both Dramas… and uri Junho!
I'm so glad I joined this 2020roundup. It's so fun to discover similarities with other beanies! And as I said before, I often had the impression that we like the same dramas. And I like that we even share the love for uri Junho💛
Day 11 – Your 2020 crush
While my ultimate "crush" Junho is still in the military, 2020 definitely held a few new discoveries for me. The first one was Kim Jung-hyun (this feels like last year). He was so oozing in Crash Landing on You that I had do check out is former dramas. I hope Mr. Queen is good enough for him and Shin Hye-sun!!
However, a long time has passed since February. In the meantime I've watched Start-up and have fallen deeply for Kim Seon-ho. And I've fallen even deeper while watching 2 Days and 1 Night. With Christmas break around the corner and more than two weeks for myself, I will happily immerse myself in his older works.
parkchuna is still Running Errands
I have Catch The Ghost in line! I actually watched the 1st episode when it first aired but i guess i wasn't smitten by his dimples yet back then.
I'm currently watching Strongest Deliveryman, but Catch the Ghost will be next 😄
I just skipped watch this last week or two, but i think it was a nice drama. Would have watched in full if i had time/patience but i just really wanted to see KSH 😂
Day 10 – Drama Beanies convinced you to watch and you can't be grateful enough
I often scroll through the beanie wall and read comments about dramas I don't watch. So it happens a lot of time that I start a drama I would't have started otherwise. However, the one I can't be grateful enough is 18 Again. When I read the Premiere Watch I didn't care at all about this drama, but soon some comments praised it so much that my interest was piqued. It is such a lovely story about family, relationships between parents and children, and husband and wife. And it rose attention to how small decisions can change a whole life – not only for the father who got a change to be 18 again, but also for the other people in the story. It is a romantic comedy, youth drama and family drama and all of this is woven into a beautiful told story. Really, if you haven't watched it, I can't recommend it enough. Lee Do Hyun as an 18-year-old ahjussi is a big plus – he was a gem in this drama!
Day 8 – The OTP you didn't think you'll adore
I didn't have to think about this theme: Goo Se-ra and Seo Gong-myung (Memorials/Into the Ring) are clearly the OTP I loved most this year. I only started this drama because the pictures and comments on the beanie wall made me curious, and it was really a rewarding drama. Both are lovable and great individually and together they are even more awesome. They showed a few of the most realistic kiss scenes in kdramaland, I loved it the most when they were smiling while kissing each other, or Se-ra's giggling at those moments. Watching them together made me just really happy!
Day 7 – That OST you're obsessed with
This one is a surprise for me, because there is none. I'm totally a music person: I listen to music when I commute, when I'm at work, when I go for a walk, or when I go to sleep. Literally the only time I don't listen to music is when I'm watching dramas or when I'm visiting someone (by now my friends are used to Korean background music, when they stay at my place). Normally, every year there is at least one drama in which I find the music so great that it made me fall in love with the drama (for example Hwayugi or Memories of the Alhambra). And in my Top100 of the year playlist by Spotify would be more than one OST. But this year there is none. For me this is a little bit disappointing since a lot of the singers whose voices I really like released OSTs for dramas I like (Kyuhyun, Chen, Taeyeon …).
Well, I guess I listened too much to Junho and 2PM this year.
Not a bad choice, I would also listen to 2PM and Junho in a loop!
Two of my favourites songs this year are OST by Kyuhyun, from Weather and HP.
This two were also my favourite OSTs, but I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I love Dreaming by Kyuhyun, though.
Junho's songs really brought me through this year 😊
Maybe you'll find some new discoveries from Beanies' posts – I've found myself noting a few I haven't heard.
I will certainly look through all the posts! Maybe I'll even start a drama because I like a song so much 😄
Day 6 – Drama you know you will rewatch
I like to rewatch dramas when I'm in the mood for a specific atmosphere. Most of the time I would start in the middle and watch a few episodes on an evening. This way I will probably rewatch Memorials, It's Okay To Not Be Okay and Crash Landing On You. But there are also dramas I love so much I probably will rewatch them from start to finish: I'll Go to You When the Weather Is Nice (I'm only waiting until winter is really here), Hospital Playlist (I'm in love with the friends and so excited for season 2) and 18 Again (this drama was such a nice surprise, it's one of my most loved dramas this year).
Day 5 – Drama you finished for the bean
Flower of Evil
This drama started so good! I loved the idea of a serial killer as a main lead and how this would effect his family. It was new and inventive. Soon enough it was obvious that all of it was a misunderstanding. But the story was still interesting with a male lead as a father and husband who wouldn't feel any emotion but play the emotions instead. Then suddenly this was also a misunderstanding and the male lead became an emotional mess. I saw the route the drama was taking on the beanie wall and had to stop for a while. A few weeks later I binged the last episodes and it wasn't as bad as I thought (well, I was prepared for the worst), but it was clearly not as good and intriguing as the beginning.
This drama could have been so good, it just went downhill when they decided to make ML a mess with emotions. Nothing made sense. I could finish because at some point I decided I would take everything as a joke and mainly because I was playing Candy Crush while watching.
It didn't make sense at all!
I was also playing on my phone while watching 🙂 That's always a bad sign — If the story was good enough, I wouldn't play.
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Day 4 – Drama you couldn't finish
There are a few dramas I have dropped this year simply because I lost interest (Itaewon Class), or the characters weren't likeable (Sweet Munchies), or I just couldn't connect with the characters and story (Record of Youth). But I've dropped one drama I actually liked a lot: The World of the Married. Kim Hee-ae was amazing, and the story was good and very gripping. However, this was the problem. It was too gripping and emotionally exhausting to watch her fighting against her husband. I think, I will never be in the mood to end this drama, which is a shame since I think it's really good. But in my opinion drama watching should be fun and not this draining.
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This is a very strong reason to drop dramas . Dramas that are excellent but still draining get tiring at times. You want to finish it because it's well made but you eventually choose your own peace over that.
Especially when real life is so tiring this year. I had to watch a lot of high school dramas to compensate for this 😉
CindyMahri
This was my primary reason I avoided The World of the Married like the plague. 2020 is already too stressful, don't wanna add to that. (But I still wasn't spared from the horror sh*t finale of that show-that-must-not-be-named. Argh.)
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I have the same reason towards The World of the Married. Will probably get back to it when real life doesn't suck and we get to enjoy the thrill of it.
Day 2 – Female lead I will never forget
The theme today is difficult, I loved so many of the female leads we got this year. For example detective Cha Young-jin in Nobody Knows, neurosurgeon Chae Song-hwa in Hospital Playlist or lawyer Jung Geum-ja in Hyena – these three have very different personalities, but they have a few things in common: they are independent (from start to finish!), focus on their work and are also really got at their job. I think all three are pretty awesome and I want to be like them in ten years.
But there are more women I won't forget.
Yoon Se-ri in Crash Landing on You
She is resilient, quick-thinking, and even though she "descends" into an impossible situation, she isn't a damsel in distress, but adapts to the situation. I liked her bonding time with Captain Ri, the ducklings and the ahjummas, which resulted in her opening up and value the people around her more. At the end she is still a capable and successful businesswoman but has warmer relationships with the people around her.
Ko Moon-young in It's Okay to Not Be Okay
She is really one of a kind: Brutally honest on one hand and incredible vulnerable on other hand. I love her for saying honestly what she wants and feels, and my heart hurt so much whenever she was shown in her vulnerable state. Her whimpering when she had those nightmares made me cry so much, I will never forget these scenes.
Goo Se-ra in Memorials
She is also one of a kind in a completely different way. I simply adore her quirky personality and her cute giggling! And her ability to stand up again, even when something didn\'t work out the way she wanted is admirable.
Day 1 ¬– Male lead you will never forget
Ri Jeong Hyeok in Crash Landing on You
He is not only kind and caring to the woman he falls in love with, but he also cares for his subordinates who truly respect and like him. That is one of the main reasons why I like him this much. Even though he doesn't talk much about his feelings, he shows his concern for other through action. And he is still a badass captain in the Army.
Im Eun-Seob in When the Weather Is Fine
He is also someone who doesn't talk about his feelings, but nevertheless shows them to the people around him. I loved how he eventually opened up more to the people who cared so much about him, but always stayed true to himself. At the end, he was still an introvert, however he was able to accept the good things that happened to him.
Han Ji-Pyeong in Start-Up
Well, technically he is not the first lead, but he stole the show for me. I like that he is smart, hardworking and doesn't let himself be dragged down by his difficult past. And I love his no-nonsense personality (If I think about it, this is something that reminds me of my boyfriend. So, I guess it's no wonder I root especially for Han Ji-Pyeong's happiness.)
Honourable mention
The doctors in Hospital Playlist and Seo Gong-Myung in Memorials
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Wow, I knew I watched a lot of dramas this year, but making this list was almost embarrassing. Well, I guess this happens if you work less hours for a few months, don't visit your family and can't spend time with your boyfriend, who lives across the world. I normally don't mind our long-distance relationship, but this year it really sucks. So, I spent like all my free time watching dramas and here is my list.
2020 finished dramas
Backstreet Rookie
Crash Landing on You
Do You Like Brahms?
Find Me in Your Memory
I'll Go to You When the Weather Is Nice
It's Okay to Not Be Okay
My Unfamiliar Family
Mystic Pop-up Bar
Old School Intern
Stove League
The Good Detective
Planning to start with
On hold (let me finish Kim Seon-Ho's contents first …)
More than Friends
Tale of the Nine Tailed
Older dramas finished
Welcome to Waikiki 1 and 2
The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry
Heartless City
Sassy, Go Go
Diary of a Prosecutor (somehow I never watched the last episode, but I don't know why)
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Record of Youth
The World of the Married
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Galaxy Zoo: Motivations of Citizen Scientists
"Citizen science, in which volunteers work with professional scientists to conduct research, is expanding due to large online datasets. To plan projects, it is important to understand volunteers' motivations for participating. This paper analyzes results from an online survey of nearly 11,000 volunteers in Galaxy Zoo, an astronomy citizen science project. Results show that volunteers' primary motivation is a desire to contribute to scientific research. We encourage other citizen science projects to study the motivations of their volunteers, to see whether and how these results may be generalized to inform the field of citizen science." More
Implantable Biomedical Sensors - for Astronauts?
"A team of scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have developed the world's smallest medical implant to monitor critical chemicals in the blood. The 14mm device measures up to five indicators, including proteins like troponin, that show if and when a heart attack has occurred. Using Bluetooth, the device can then transmit the data to a smartphone for tracking. The device can also track levels of glucose, lactate, and ATP, providing valuable data for physiologic monitoring during activity, or in possible disease conditions like diabetes. As far as tricorders go, this device may be the one you have been waiting for, provided you are on board for the implant." more at ExtremeTech
Imagine the potential of such technology to monitor the health of astronauts. No more wires.
Smartphones Become Tricorders
"Run tracking and calorie counting apps can certainly be regarded among the successes of the smartphone, but without dedicated sensor hardware, the philosophy of "there's an app for that" only goes so far. A host of products now available for Android let users with a little bit of technical know-how create powerful devices previously found only in the domain of hospitals and law enforcement. One of the most successful expansion boards that allows Android devices to control external instruments and to orchestrate the collection of a variety of sensor data is the IOIO board. The system works well in wireless mode with most Bluetooth dongles, and its on-board FPGA gives 25 I/O channels, including plenty for analog input. It also handles analog output via pulse width modulation (PWM)." More at ExtremeTech
Estonia's Student Cubesat Ready for the Next Vega Launch
"The tiny spacecraft passenger for Vega's upcoming Flight VV02 is getting the same "white glove" treatment as the launch's two larger payloads, with Estonia's ESTCube-1 student satellite now mission-ready at the Spaceport in French Guiana. In the Spaceport's S1B clean room, ESTCube-1 has been integrated in its box-type dispenser - readying the cubesat for integration in the Vega launcher's payload "stack," along with the Proba-V and VNREDSat-1A passengers. ESTCube-1 is the first Estonian satellite, built by a collaboration of students from Tartu University, Estonian Aviation Academy, Tallinn University of Technology and University of Life Sciences, and was developed in conjunction with the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the German Space Center (DLR)." More
Spin Your Thesis! 2013 Teams Selected
"Four teams of university students have been chosen to develop and conduct hypergravity experiments during ESA's fourth 'Spin Your Thesis!' campaign. The campaign will take place from 23 September to 4 October 2013 at the Large Diameter Centrifuge facility located at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Each week two teams will use the centrifuge equipment. During the preparation of their experiments, the students will be supported by ESA's Education Office and hypergravity experts. A member of the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA) will also be on hand to provide advice and expertise in gravity-related research." More
Silicon Valley Space Center to Develop Suborbital Payloads
"The Silicon Valley Space Center will develop four scientific payloads to fly on the XCOR Lynx spacecraft, which is currently under construction in Mojave, California. The payloads will fly on missions sponsored by the United States Rocket Academy's Citizens in Space program. The payloads are part of a cooperative agreement between the Silicon Valley Space Center and Citizens in Space, which was announced today. "The Silicon Valley Space Center is proud to support the Citizens in Space program," said Dr. Sean Casey, co-founder of the Silicon Valley Space Center. "This is a unique opportunity to leverage the technical expertise of the Silicon Valley community in support of citizen science and the emerging suborbital spaceflight industry." More
Oreo's "Out of this World" Global App
"After conquering the seventh continent in its 100th birthday year, the World's Favorite Cookie has decided to take on the universe in its 101st with a new, ground-breaking star chart messaging app; OREO Skies. Putting its own, playful twist on traditional mobile messaging, OREOteamed up with Nokia to develop a smartphone app designed to connect people in a never-been-done before way: through the stars. Using augmented reality technology, the OREO Skies mobile app, now available exclusively onNokia Lumia Windows smartphones, allows users to ignite the "child" inside by writing messages and attaching them to actual constellations revealed in the app. As the best-selling global cookie brand,OREO is offering people around the world a chance to connect with each other in a way that's never been done before." More
NASA Ames' E. Coli Small Satellite Study Selected for Flight
"NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) recently selected E. coli AntiMicrobial Satellite (EcAMSat) as one of 24 small satellites to fly as secondary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. EcAMSat is being developed through a partnership between NASA's Ames Research Center and the Stanford University School of Medicine. It will be the first NASA mission in the "6U" configuration, with six times the volume of a single cubesat unit ("1U"). Cubesats belong to a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The cube-shaped satellites measure about four inches on each side, have a volume of about one quart, and weigh less than three pounds. Though it is large for a nanosatellite, the 6U EcAMSat weighs only about 30 pounds and measures approximately 14.4 inches long, 8.9 inches wide and 3.9 inches tall." More
ESA Seeks Innovators for Orbiting Laboratory Ops-Sat
"ESA is offering software developers the opportunity to use its new testbed in space. The robust nanosat will allow individuals, companies and institutions to try out pioneering software without the danger of losing a mission. Satellites are so complex and costly that their controllers cannot afford to take risks. The need for reliability means that onboard and ground control software has not altered significantly in the past 20 years. But the tiny Ops-Sat, a CubeSat combining commercial off-the-shelf technology and ESA expertise, is a chance to try out new ideas in space as early as 2015. "This satellite is designed for experimenting with mission-critical software both on board and on the ground," says Dave Evans, Ops-Sat project manager at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. "This means it must be flexible, powerful and robust." More
NASA Ames Selects CubeSat Technology Projects for Future Launches
"NASA recently selected cubesat projects for flight opportunities as part of its CubeSat Launch Initiative in the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Three of these projects are sponsored by the Space Technology Mission Directorate and are managed by the Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and will be launched by the Launch Services Program at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla. These cubesats are research spacecraft that weigh less than five pounds and measure approximately four by four by 12 inches. These miniature spacecraft will be launched to Earth orbit as auxiliary payloads between 2014 and 2016." More
Public Support Sought To Retrieve Apollo Era Moon Images
"The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues its efforts to recover and enhance Moon images from the 1960s using modern technology.
NASA Launches Exploration Design Challenge
"NASA unveiled an Exploration Design Challenge on Monday to give students from kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to play a unique role in the future of human spaceflight. The innovative educational opportunity was announced in a special event at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The challenge asks students in the U.S. and abroad to think and act like scientists to overcome one of the major hurdles for deep space long-duration exploration -- protecting astronauts and hardware from the dangers of space radiation.This education-focused effort was developed through a Space Act Agreement between NASA and Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md., in collaboration with the National Institute of Aerospace in Hampton, Va. The goal is to help students see their role in America's future exploration endeavors. "America's next step in human space exploration is an ambitious one and will require new technologies, including ways to keep our astronauts safe from the effects of deep-space radiation," Bolden said. "That is the focus of this challenge, and we are excited students will be helping us solve that problem." More
Collaborative 3D Printed Rocket Engine Design Competition
San Francisco - (March 8, 2013) - Today DIYROCKETS and Sunglass are announcing a partnership to launch the world's first open source competition to create 3D printed rocket engines through collaborative design.
The competition opens for registration at South By Southwest (SXSW) on March 9, and challenges makers, designers and space entrepreneurs to create open source rocket engines that will serve the growing market for small payload delivery into low earth orbit and ultimately, disrupt the space transportation industry.
Although several companies have recently made strides in showcasing the power of the private sector in space exploration, DIYROCKETS is taking this a step further by creating the first of many competitions that encourages the fusion of creativity, technology and collaboration by people across the globe. Utilizing Sunglass's cloud-based platform to visualize, collaborate, manage versions and exchange feedback on each design with team members and the public from anywhere on the globe, the contest aims to dramatically drive down design costs, while creating innovative technology for all types of space hardware and parts, ranging from space propulsion to space medical sensors. Teams will have the freedom to work in a 3D design environment of their choice such as SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Rhino or CATIA, while syncing their project to the Sunglass cloud.
Smartphone satellite STRaND-1 operational in orbit
"STRaND-1, the nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has been declared operational in orbit by the mission team from the University of Surrey's Surrey Space Centre (SSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). The satellite successfully separated from the Indian PSLV launcher in low Earth orbit after its launch on 25th February, and first contact with STRaND-1 was made on its second pass over the Guildford ground station. STRaND-1 is being commissioned and operated from the Surrey Space Centre's ground station at the University of Surrey. Initial checks have confirmed that critical systems are all functioning as expected." More
NASA Announces Fourth Round of CubeSat Space Mission Candidates
"NASA has selected 24 small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The proposed CubeSats come from universities across the country, a Florida high school, several non-profit organizations and NASA field centers. CubeSats belong to a class of research spacecraft called nanosatellites. The cube-shaped satellites measure about 4 inches on each side, have a volume of about 1 quart, and weigh less than 3 pounds. The selections are from the fourth round of the CubeSat Launch Initiative. After launch, the satellites will conduct technology demonstrations, educational research or science missions. The selected CubeSats will be eligible for flight after final negotiations and an opportunity for flight becomes available." More
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Crack the eggs into a bowl and pour in the half-and-half. Whisk until just combined. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
Add the diced onions and jalapeños to the skillet, and cook until onions are translucent, about two minutes. Pour in the egg mixture and add the tortillas. Spread everything out into an even layer, and then let cook undisturbed for one minute. Gently stir the mixture, and once again spread it out into an even layer. Sprinkle on the cheese and cook until it melts, 30 seconds to a minute. Turn off the heat.
Season the mixture with salt and pepper and garnish with cilantro. Serve the migas with salsa. Refried beans are an excellent addition.