Category: Agriculture

This will be the new column. Concentrating off and on the ground level realities of Indian agriculture and also of the Indian rural realities. After having run this journal for over a few decades we have come to the conclusion that we have all along been talking of agriculture as if it is a heaven-born…

Public opinion on farmers’ issues now would get some clarity? On the day of the great Sikh saint, Guru Nanak Dev day the government thought fit to withdraw the most draconian three laws on the farmers’ issues. Those who had agitated were the farmers of three most agricultural states, Punjab, Haryana and Western UP which…

Neither good for farmers nor for the country!’ India’s profile is rising internationally. India was earning some good grades in the International diplomatic circuit. The time has come to heal some wounds that are troubling. One major irritant is the prolonged farmer’s agitation that has caused so much destruction and much violence. We refer to…

An action agenda is drawn up at the Glasgow climate change international summit! Yes, it looks to be the only hope for standing up to the Climate Change Challenge facing the world. The stark message from the world leaders from the COP 26 Summit the just concluded Glasgow summit of climate change meet gives hope…

Fresh thoughts on the critical sector!In the latest world hunger index, India is shown in a poor light after many small neighboring countries! This is an insult to our media organizations. We have to change our media priorities from what we generally think our own political scenarios. Let us at least now change to serious…

Wonder rice?Yes, it looks like that! This new discovery is likely to reduce emissions and offer a good yield! Much to cheer in the Agri sector! Yes, problems in agriculture are too familiar and too complex. It is not the claim of any politicians to say they have the solutions to this vast spread of…

Is India still a deficit food economy?And Russia and other big economies are using their agriculture power as a political and diplomatic tool? Yes, we read every day about our agriculture development news. As bit players filling up our newspaper columns as a box news item, saying how the Kharif sowing, for instance, as normal…

Yet how agri issues are relegated to lower priority! Yes, agriculture doesn’t rank high in any of our day-to-day concerns except in our meals times! Yes, agriculture has evolved over time in such a way that when we think of agriculture, we think of villagers and rural India and rural India is what it is…