Category: Agriculture

Kerala seeks control over five dams! Supreme Court directs the raising of the height of Narmada Dam! Yes, the inter-state waters disputes are no more news. They make news whenever the state politicians have no other purposeful jobs on hand!  So, comes the news of persisting inter-state rivers disputes, from one state or other. Now,…

Economic nationalism in industry and agriculture The India-born Lakshmi Mittal’s takeover of the Europe’s biggest stall maker, Arcelor, now Arcelor-Mittal Steel, made lots of headlines for months. The major European governments, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, the Presidents  and Prime Ministers of these countries raised a hue and cry over their own nationalistic industry (they held…

UP is always in the news. For all its political importance. But the State is known for its extreme complexity in all its many dimensions, political complexity, political instability and the big number MPs who make up the composition of the Central Government in all desirable and undesirable ways! UP’s economic and social backwardness is…

This is the time for farmers, farm entrepreneurs! To invest and make big money in the farm sector! You have to know the changes in our economic sectors and policies! You have to know the new opportunities. New innovative agri projects are coming up. Almost everyday! So many people ask us, they visit us or…

Vidarbha farmers’ continued suicides haunt the Prime Minister and the Agri Minister! What needs to be done?  Prime Minister must deliver or ……! Prime Minister had visited the farmers’ suicide zone of India, Vidarbha and listened to the farmers’ problem!  It is a nice gesture after two years of so much indifference! The CWC had…

Contrast the Food Processing Ministry with others! It is agriculture that doesn’t make news for the right reasons? It is in the news for the wrong reasons!  That should explain the failures on the agriculture front. We are saying this with a sense of mission, with a sense of sorrow and with a sense of…

Sonia Gandhi’s letter to Prime Minister Two years achievement? This massive import? This government seems to have lost steam and might drive the country into an irreversible trend!  Sonia Gandhi chose to write to the Prime Minister and places it on record on his moves to enter into a free trade agreement with the Asian…

Why not? Rich needn’t be on the defensive anymore! The “eviction” rate, another name for those leaving their traditional petty living with so much to lose with the new opportunities opening up, in the nearby towns and cities, the eviction rate is on average 15%.In tribal and Rajbonshi-dominated districts of south and north Bengal respectively,…