Ajit Singh’s call for productivity and intensive farming. Do they know the ground reality of agriculture? Who speaks for farmers? How committed is the government for the agri sector? At the second International Congress on Plant Physiology, the President said this. The agri minister said this. What about the Prime Minister and his distinguished Cabinet…
Category: Agriculture
Surplus horticulture production is here!
But no credible agri export strategy is visible! Surplus onion and potato production and fall in prices! This `annual ritual’ gives us an idea of how horticulture sector is capable of over producing and prices crashing! Indian horticulture cries for attention. What we need is not extension of horticrops. Nor crop productivity. What we need…
We tell bankers: change your mindset!
Take initiatives to do more than mere lending. Bankers are back in the news. For the obvious reason they think that with the Securitization Bill they can recover the NPAs easily. Some of the high profile banks, notably ICICI have attached industrial properties.