Category: Agriculture

Environment, energy, infrastructure issues might impact Indian agriculture’s long -term prospects India continues with its short-term strategies. It resorts to import of wheat for the second year. And at such high prices. The Prime Minister, after a long interval, is  undertaking a tour of six states to over-see the agriculture developments. Fine! If only the…

What new hopes on agriculture front? Three priorities in agriculture Water, energy, biotechnology Inter-linking of the Southern rivers, high investments in agri-biotechnology, energy efficient management in electricity and water consumption in agriculture. The National Development Council met with the one single aim of what to do in the Indian agriculture. We have becoming accustomed to…

Every one knows the exact reasons! No one dares to speak out! We are publishing this magazine, now for more than two decades. And we have built up a dedicated readership. It is not easy to publish an agriculture magazine in English. All the English publications are newspapers or magazines and all are urban-focused. No…

India would turn into a food importer? Yes, says our Agriculture Minister! Our policy makers have become smug about agriculture! They don’t in fact know what to do to turn agriculture as India’s strength. That is the current tragedy of policy making. All our top ministers are able men. They are widely seen as the…

Wheat farmers are becoming assertive! Yet they need correct market information to get maximum prices! The wheat procurement season is on and the wheat output is good in Punjab, Haryana and MP and Rajasthan and UP. There is a sort of cold war between the various players in the wheat procurement trade, the government on…

Confesses India would lose self-sufficiency in food! The Government must make a strong commitment to make India self-sufficient in food! Sharad Pawar, the agri minister, is in the news lately for all the wrong news! Poor man, he should be worried about India’s growing food deficit. Yes, he seems to be worried. Not so overtly….

So too a full-time PDS minister! Also a full-time co-operatives minister! Agriculture is becoming more and more hopeless and unviable. It is a great national shame that farmers and their families undergo in Vidharba. Readers, please go through the editorial, for details. As we write, there is another heart-breaking n new from Karnataka. A fairly…

Urban development and much of new infrastructure investments only can change rural India’s fortunes. Sam Pitroda, yes, this is the wizard, who befriended Rajiv Gandhi and helped to bring about the PC booths all over India. That was the first telephone revolution that reached almost the rural interiors also. It was later; now, the new…