Category: Agriculture

Farmers air their grievences in the presence of the PM. Why not act at once on their suggestions? It is becoming difficult everyday to judge the government. Its many actions. Yes, Dr.Singh is a decent man. This much is admitted by everyone. He seems to have no enemies. But then what is his performance as…

Sad thoughts on the turn of events at rural Anand The Prime Minister must give some thoughts to the latest developments at Anand. Petty jealousies have sought to bring a bad name to a man who made all Indians proud. The government must intervene and save the country and the good name of India from…

Vadamalai mission is clear! We consider farmers success is our success! Whatever we undertake, we strive for making the farmers succeed. in their investments, in their maximisation of their incomes and profits. Also, we are clear that wherever farmers face problems we strive to solve them. In a practical way. We are a strategic consulting…

This government doesn’t have a vision or a plan for agriculture Yes, it is nice to hear the Prime Minister speaking at the 10th Plan mid-term appraisal about missing our economic growth target! It is none other than agriculture! It doesn’t take such a long time and so much of labour and so many brains…

USA `industrial’ agriculture enjoys high subsidies Agriculture-dependent countries get no subsidies! Indian agriculture is very different from what we see in advanced countries or small countries in Central Asia or Africa.In the USA agriculture is becoming an industrial activity. There big agri/food companies have emerged as the big buyers of agri products. Thus, McDonalds, the…

End the collectors’ Raj! First step is the Right to Information Act! Indian bureaucracy is not trained to part with information under the law. Under the existing law, there is so much official secrecy and everyone, from the ministers to the secretaries to the petty village clerk is accustomed to browbeat the poor and the…

There is a real shortage of skilled manpower in agri sector! Or, for undertaking consultancy business management of various new agro ventures We are experiencing a severe shortage of people with requisite skills to work in the agri sector. To draw up strategic development projects in new crops, new agribusiness models, what is now called…

Time to partly privatise and for private participation. There was this news recently. The Union Minister for Planning M.A.Raja Shekaran, a senior politician from Karnataka had participated at the Bangalore based Agriculture University on a, mouthful topic, called “Extension of methodological issues in impact assessment of agriculture and rural development programmes”. From the way this…