Agriculture in a time of climate change, erratic rains, natural disasters etc!For every one, individuals and people alike?Yes, such questions are not asked everyday and everyone at that! For the simple reason we live at a time when the rest of the world is preoccupied with more self-related questions. Money earning, job securing and running…
Category: Agriculture
Make life easier for farmers, villagers!
India is a great agricultural power, a great agricultural economy!How many of the policy makers, occupying key positions in the power structure of Delhi care to respond sympathetically? To people living within the Lutyen Delhi to borrow a latest phrase the many ‘Ladder Climbers’ perched in the cozy chambers of highly designated variously? Yes, when…
Four months old farmers’ protests prolong!
How long this state of affairs to prolong?Surely, there must be a way out! Agriculture and farmers’ lives are so precious!The country and political leadership owe the people this much of sensitivity and moral burden! The Prime Minister’s 75th edition of Mann ki Bath has come timely as this edition deals with the PM’s concern…
Farmers’ agitation going nowhere?
It looks like the farmers’ months long agitation is unending and this is not a good sign for any government as farming is a critical economic activity where the majority of population is engaged and food production and the social harmony are the first indication of any government’s good governance. And as for farmers, first,…
Farmers’ agitation has to end somehow!
What are the broader requirements and consideration? The farmers of Punjab, as we write are on a war path. It is an unusual agitation, an agitation very unprecedented in independent India, India had never seen such a massive show of protest that had prolonged for more than 45 days, almost one and half month long….
Farmers’ agitation must end!
Better it ends right now! There is as of now, as we writes massive trust deficit between the farmers and the government and this trust deficit must somehow be brought to an end. How is the unresolved question. Farmers’ agitation and the way the deadlock is going to be resolved. The role of the media…
Protests in a democracy okay!
But peaceful protests can’t be prolonged or unlimited! The current farmers protests in Delhi has created a new phenomenon from starting as a peaceful protest by farmers from Punjab and Haryana, mostly Jat-Sikh farmers who, as everyone in the rest of the country knows, are relatively well-off comparatively and well organised as a professional group,…
The three new agriculture-related Bills!
India has to change and specifically Indian agriculture sector has to change radically in many ways. Today the politics in India is so polarised that even if you want to make any honest and even innocent pronunciation it is suspect and mistaken in terms of the highly polarised politics. And let us not forget for…