Category: Agriculture

Biotech crops-A Nobel Laureate makes a strong case! Anybody cares for biotech crops? Biotechnology? Yes, sometimes big time industry too often forgets the humble beginnings of big things. One such is biotechnology industry. Who are all the big stars today? Like IT also we do the same mistake. How many know how the IT revolution…

English language media even don’t report the latest data on food grains output etc! Indian agriculture needs wider recognition. Needs commitment, ideas, big vision and an innovative outlook. There is an urgent need to turn agriculture farmer-friendly! A basically farm viable agriculture policy needs drawn up Make the Internet, mobile phones technology to reach farmers…

Agriculture from across the world! Small scale farming and plantation scale farming! Agriculture problems are special to each country! A latest issue of The Economist magazine has covered the rice farming countries of Asia. We have also seen some of them, mainly, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Thailand. The other prominent Asian rice economies are Indonesia…

The agri ministry is lethargic in spending its allocated budget! It has spent only 28% of its budgetary estimates against a target of 33% How many in the country, especially farmers know of the pathetic state of affairs in the key ministry that holds them to ransom with all its current miseries of suicides, debts…

Can Dr.Panagariya succeed where angels feared to tread? Can this government do  the  new proposals? Distress in agri sector  continues! Multiple problems! Farmers’ suicides  continue. Farmers’s debts mount. Farmers have No one is talking about. Where is the agriculture minister? Why he doesn’t talk of the many segments, like sugar and other commodities that are …

Sugar industry is in crisis! When it will be solved and how it can be done? Yes, Indian sugar industry is in deep crisis. There is an 80,000 crore industry, the very basis of Indian commercial agriculture base and it is an international level industry, perhaps, only next to Brazil. Today, we see a sad…

So, the corporate praise is an illusion or plain lie! Or, corporate criticism could be other than blame! Yes, capitalism has many colours, it is a chameleon! That is one basic consideration that uniformly, nay, universally capitalism has a bad press, all intellectuals have taken stands against capitalism. Now, we have seen the latest book…

There must be a way to stop this national shame! Is this not a national scandal? This spate of farmers ‘s suicides after a two generation efforts in ending food scarcity and ushering in the Green Revolution and ensuing self-sufficiency in food production? Now, at a time and a critical phase of our agricultural modernisation…