Category: Agriculture

The onion glut and the government inaction a big worry for farmers! Lasalgaon, 45 km from Nasik is, as everyone knows, India’s largest onion market and everyday hundreds of Lorries proceed towards the market complex there. There ensues bidding for price fixation. The story is old and told many times and everyone also knows how…

What future for specialised media? Development media, agri and rural media space? The famed Mumbai-based Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) completes 50 years, in fact, it was started earlier by the founder, the legendary Sachin Choudhury, in 1949,this August. We have a lot of association, long memories and many of our older associates and friends…

There is a new rural revolution! Internet consumers in rural India will simply explode! This will bring about a sea-change in the way rural consumers, why, even the producers to produce, to sell and buy through the new MNC food retail companies!  Public sector vs. private sector! Welcome to MNC Food Retail investments! The government…

What chance for rural India and rural media, in particular? Agriculture never makes news! And all news today, urban news, right? Unless there is some disaster like farmers’ suicides or some natural disasters! How sad and how our own priorities of living are corrupted.  Corrupted by whom? Our own politics and economics is one thing….

Why we have to take agriculture seriously? Why agriculture and the Indian village eco-system must get priority in our policy making? Vadamalai Media is basically an agri media publishing company. We are in this media line for over a quarter century now! This sustainability obviously seems to be easy. But in reality it is an…

Yes, e-market, e-NAM, the Internet-based National Agricultural market connecting 21 mandis from 8 states was launched by Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi on April 14. This is a most revolutionary step. A giant step, historically too. After almost of millennium of darkness, the Indian agriculture sees a great leap. The Internet tech that has transformed the…

Agriculture’s political priority now the focus! See the budgets of the government! The Centre has taken the bold step to come out with a budget that makes bold promises. Agriculture spending will top the sectoral allocations. What was once considered to be an urban party of traders and small businessmen and shop-keepers, the BJP now…

They would start roaring more in the coming days! To protest on their grievances. All budgets focused on farmers! The Central and the states’ budgets! Why? Is it because the government care for farmers? How many farmers committed suicides, you know? No budget, Central or the states, in particular, the Maharashtra and the Karnataka budgets talk…