Who is playing whose game? Agriculture is for the farmers? Or for the starving poor? Or, for the election-eyed street-smart politicians? The Prime Minister and the Agriculture Minister nowhere in this game? Supreme Court pulls up the Central government! Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council and the experts and media stars would battle it out? Yes,…
Category: Agriculture
Sharad Pawar’s negative approach to grains wastage
Supreme Court’s order to distribute to the poor must be taken in the positive sense When you turn the experts’ advice what do you get? Words, words and more words and mere words! The Supreme Court in a well-meaning public interest advised the Central government to distribute the food grains stored in the open yards,…
Food security at the time of food inflation!
We have a 17 per cent rise in food prices Already there is double digit inflation There is a world economic crisis The G-20 talked of reducing deficits in nations’ budgets Now, Sonia Gandhi leads a food security advisory council! Now also, there is going to be a change in the agriculture and food and…
Sharad Pawar’s May reply in the Rajya Sabha!
On the farmers suicides! The 2011 population census will give the number of farmers correctly? Or, we will resort to fudge figures like BPL and APL? And also hide figures for the farmers’ suicides? Farmer’s suicides: the eligibility criteria are a great insult to our sense humanity! Farmers’ suicides? A boring news? Yes, it has…
USA, EU and Japan alone give massive 219 billion dollar farm subsidies to their farmers.
This distorts international trade and directly hits Indian agriculture! Reforms in agriculture as urgent as in other economic sectors! Let us think out of the box! Yes, the monsoons seem to be timely this year, after, we are told, nearly three decades! India is monsoon-dependent agricultural economy and 70 per cent of the country’s agricultural…
Do the humble farmers’ high incomes make headline news?
They dont, why not? 75 FIRs registered against UP sugar mill owners! 19 FIRs registered against mills for procuring cane from farmers illegally! These are all big news and big developments in the current messy sugar business scenario. These UP mills are all very big ones, unlike in the South where the mills are very…
We welcome US co-operation in modernisation of Indian agri sector!
Why does one go for a secret new agribusiness pact with the USA? Why the secrecy, why this below radar deal? A five column news report appears in the national daily on such captioned title. The government only last week, that is, just a week before the presentation of the budget “quietly secured a Cabinet…
Agriculture is not all about crops!
It is also about people, issues and new strategies! Yes, the very country’s varied demands are all part of the total growth, not just agriculture or industry. The latest interest in climate change is one such latest development. Climate change control concerns everybody and farmers and farming sector needs much sensitisation and sensitivity. Natural forces…