Category: Agriculture

Is India still a deficit food economy?And Russia and other big economies are using their agriculture power as a political and diplomatic tool? Yes, we read every day about our agriculture development news. As bit players filling up our newspaper columns as a box news item, saying how the Kharif sowing, for instance, as normal…

Yet how agri issues are relegated to lower priority! Yes, agriculture doesn’t rank high in any of our day-to-day concerns except in our meals times! Yes, agriculture has evolved over time in such a way that when we think of agriculture, we think of villagers and rural India and rural India is what it is…

Towards sustainable agriculture!Not pursuing an unsustainable rural development strategy! Our conception of agriculture and rural development as things stand is so out of date and not in accordance with how the Indian rural realities are shaping up with rapid urbanization and employment opportunities are opening up with education spreading on a vast scale. Agriculture is…

A Tiny country feeds the world ! It is time we in India, more so from Indian agriculture universities and other agri teaching institutes, should become updated with what is happening in other parts of the world. New agriculture research and new agri innovations. We started from here and next few months we read more…

Agriculture in a time of climate change, erratic rains, natural disasters etc!For every one, individuals and people alike?Yes, such questions are not asked everyday and everyone at that! For the simple reason we live at a time when the rest of the world is preoccupied with more self-related questions. Money earning, job securing and running…

India is a great agricultural power, a great agricultural economy!How many of the policy makers, occupying key positions in the power structure of Delhi care to respond sympathetically? To people living within the Lutyen Delhi to borrow a latest phrase the many ‘Ladder Climbers’ perched in the cozy chambers of highly designated variously? Yes, when…

How long this state of affairs to prolong?Surely, there must be a way out! Agriculture and farmers’ lives are so precious!The country and political leadership owe the people this much of sensitivity and moral burden! The Prime Minister’s 75th edition of Mann ki Bath has come timely as this edition deals with the PM’s concern…

It looks like the farmers’ months long agitation is unending and this is not a good sign for any government as farming is a critical economic activity where the majority of population is engaged and food production and the social harmony are the first indication of any government’s good governance. And as for farmers, first,…