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…
Election time!
What are our thoughts? Freedom of the press and the freedom of the citizens and the future of Indian democracy! These are all the basic issues of how Indian democracy functions in the country. The General Election, 2019 has thrown up many unprecedented other issues that have caused many ripples verging on the very frontiers…
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…
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 and…
Education under the Modi regime
What are the progresses and achievements? The years 2014 to 2019 have been a radical time when the BJP party swept through the Indian political landscape as a tsunami and changed everything in the sense that for the first time since Independence an entirely new political party other than the Congress won elections and got…