Category: Agriculture

In USA, EU there is an ethanol boom! India yet to have a clear policy! There is now an European ethonal boom, in the USA there are pro-active farmers involvement in setting up biodiesel plants .Germany, is the leader, France, Spain (the firm name is Abengoa) and many countries are in active production. EU’s first…

Marine products/cashew and other major commodities are not finding big export markets. We must have the big picture first! Yes, our Commerce Minister Mr.Kamal Nath is doing a brave job. He had brought some openness to our WTO negotiations. Now and then we hear him talk boldly. But that is all. On the ground level…

What was like the Indian agriculture, the Indian villages in the Mughal times? Poverty, famines, oppression, peasant rebellions….. Here is just a few facts from a noted historian. Sometimes it helps to look at our rural Indian countryside in a historic past. How did our village ancestors live and prosper? For a change we looked…

Let us say India is a confident nation? No leader worth his or her salt says. What the Prime Minister said soon after the Vijay Parva? After the Gujarat victory? The PM asks counter questions. Harps on Hindutva. A great pity, indeed. The Opposition leader Ms.Sonia Gandhi hides her disappointment for not winning Gujarat elections….

There was this 21st International coffee Science meet in Bangalore not long ago. 35 countries grow coffee in the world and there is acute economic crisis in the coffee industry worldwide and most of the coffee growing countries are dependent upon this single crop as an export commodity and this very commodity determines the economic…

Sharad Pawar may be a competent administrator and an agri expert. But is days in the agri ministry hasn’t shown any dramatic initiatives Our agri sector is deprived of latest information and innovations There is simply no public-private sector interaction in new investments. We have been writing often about what is missing in our agriculture…

Create an agricultural innovation subsidy fund We need innovative ideas and projects in agriculture and agribusiness development projects It is a fact that Indian agriculture has become stagnant. Statistics have been bandied about by now by the Prime Minister, the Dy. Planning Commission boss and also by Sharad Pawar. There are simply no new innovative…

WTO is here to stay! India and farmers have to learn to make a success of WTO! WTO is a necessary good for the world agriculture. Without our agriculture or for that matter any country’s agriculture goods and services entering into the world trade the concerned agriculture goods and services won’t get the maximum prices….