Agri minister in New Delhi, RBI in Mumbai talk. Their talks or reports don’t translate into visible activities at the grassroots! Agri minister wants us to believe he has enough food stocks. Fine! But their prices of grains are rising in the open market and the food for work programmes is likely to slow down!…
Category: Agriculture
An open letter to the Chairman, SBI
India’s big bank must standardise agri credit lending practices State Bank of India (SBI) is a great bank. Its pedigree is very impressive, almost as old as the start of the East India Company. It was born on March 27, 1806. Started as the Bank of Calcutta for the company officials. One legend is that…
Blackout of rural reality!
Agri marketing will take care of itself. If rural infrastructure projects speed up! There were two farmers suicides in the month of July. The two were in Karnataka. One in Tumkur district and another in Gulbarga district. The Tumkur farmers committed suicide by hanging himself in his field and the causes are the same ones…
Are we all conspirators against farmers?
Farmers seem to live in blissful ignorace! The government condemns farmers to exist in ignorance and isolation. Agriculture : who cares? Agriculture is never headline news! Why? It doesn’t excite the educated persons, mostly they live in cities. We don’t seem to get any positive information about what the many development agencies are doing for…
Marketing of agri produce is a high priority now!
Maharashtra Agriculture Minister speaks Use technology to modernise rural/agri market information for farmers. The Maharashtra agriculture minister Mr.Balasaheb Thorat must be congratulated for speaking about the agri sector’s current issues. In Ahmedabad the other day the minister had said that free power will hold on in the state. Much more seriously he saw the drought…
Agri Credit : Chidambaram must monitor agri credit targets every month!
There are routine disturbing news coming out everyday. What news except farmers committing suicides? The latest is of course more farmers deaths in AP. In two days, 5 suicides! There is also now farmers suicides from MP, Maharashtra and even from the other Southern States; Karnataka, has of course for notorious insensitivity, Kerala, the more…
Pawar should do more!
Chidambaram should deliver on his promises! The PM should activate ministers! We are a responsible media. We use responsible language. Even when it comes to ask difficult questions! As a responsible media we have to articulate the voices and opinions from a sector like agriculture which in the UPA’s priorities seem to rank low! Recently,…
Land reforms in West Bengal
Why keep farmers poor? W.Bengal obsessed with keeping tenants – owners in constant tensions! Let us know W.Bengal is economically a poor state. It is backward state too in health and education. The West Bengal Assembly had defeated a government-sponsored proposal to exempt certain provisions to relax the land ceiling law in operation in the…