There is no other media support as well. Our TV channels are still entertainment oriented! The Indian agriculture is supposed to be the largest economic and social sector. This much is admitted and appreciated. But there is no real appreciation as there are no bodies where the farmers representatives or spokespersons are prominently allowed or…
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It is only fair! Sharad Pawar must quit his ministerial post!
Sharad Pawar has been elected President of the International Cricket Committee (ICC).It is a great office and the post carries great honor as well as heavy responsibilities. As such, Pawar has met the Prime Minister and asked the PM to reduce his burdens the Cabinet Minister in charge of crucial portfolios. Agriculture, Food and Consumers…
So, agriculture is now a game?
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,…
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…