When do we care for farmers, if at all? When Sharad Pawar goes to meet the PM? Yes, it looks so. The other day when the government formation in Maharashtra was at its most hectic pace, Sharad Pawar the senior most old Congress leader, now the chief of the much depleted Nationalist Congress party (NCP),…
Category: Agriculture
Agriculture as trade and diplomacy tools!
Indian agriculture’s much strength and many weaknesses!How far India has deployed agriculture sectors a political tool of trade and diplomacy? Indian agriculture matters in today’s world. India is now the world’s number one rice exporter. This has not been widely known. This must be made known widely. Now, the Indian domestic producers of commodities like…
New tools, technologies and innovative solutions!
Can help to revive agriculture! Indian Agriculture cries for action! The Nobel Prize winning Randomized control trial is one such new tool that could help boost agri production and productivity. Even there are other techs that could help to predict farm prices! Too many verbal promises and too little action programs! What do we have…
Why politicians and officials shy away from talking about the ground-level realities in agriculture?
Agriculture is both economics and politics! Do you know that currently Lok Sabha MPs are 147 times more richer than rural households! The time has come to realise this utter unreality of the Policy makers empty talk and the ground level realities! 32 years after the first farmer suicide in Maharashtra, nothing has changed! This…
Importance of agriculture never diminishes!
Hopes and despair in the agri sector persists!May be we have to learn many more things in agriculture policy making! There are reports from the Northern parts of India, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana about the hailstorm and unseasonal rains in these major wheat growing states. Varying stages of Wheat crop harvesting are reported….
Future of farming
Issues like climate change, monsoon changes and natural disasters seas rising. Complex issues for the educated society to give some thought from where their food is coming from! India is a youthful country, with majority young age groups! But is Indian agriculture a youthful area of development? No, Not at all. We still read about…
Farmer’s issues, schemes aplenty!
Only implementation is questioned!Insurance regulator, IRDAI, asks the Insurance Companies to honour farmers ‘crop insurance claims! High Court petitioned for enquiry over crop insurance schemes! The Karnataka High Court ordered issue of notices to the Union and State governments on a Public interest Litigation petition seeking directions for the disbursal of crop insurance to the…
Bold initiatives are called for in Indian agriculture.
Old institutions should go! New collaborations must come in. Elections over and we can sit easy on the farm front? Agriculture is never a high priority in India given the sort of priority politicians and media give to this topic. Neither the public are too much bothered about what is happening in agriculture inside India…