Category: Agriculture

Is the government in the listening mode? Or, is it seized of its own superiority of knowledge in this most critical sector? Farming scenario is changing for the good. Yet, the farm sector needs a  serious look from the farmer’s points of view.   Government should regulate banks and finance institutions to give funds to…

Why keep the public in the dark? Indian agriculture is at a critical stage. After years of self-reliance and self-sufficiency as ensured by the Green Revolution, we seem to be reversing some of the national consensus. The so-called second Green Revolution of which the PM and his colleagues seem to be imagining without fully working…

PM, Sonia Gandhi just talk casually! About helping the farmers! Who said the PM is a transparent man or really sensitive to farmers, farm decline or farm imports? Farmers’ suicides that continue don’t evoke any response from those in New Delhi. Delhi is really door hai! The PM, Sonia Gandhi or the FM don’t show…

Ajit Singh’s call for productivity and intensive farming. Do they know the ground reality of agriculture? Who speaks for farmers? How committed is the government for the agri sector? At the second International Congress on Plant Physiology, the President said this. The agri minister said this. What about the Prime Minister and his distinguished Cabinet…

But no credible agri export strategy is visible! Surplus onion and potato production and fall in prices! This `annual ritual’ gives us an idea of how horticulture sector is capable of over producing and prices crashing! Indian horticulture cries for attention. What we need is not extension of horticrops. Nor crop productivity. What we need…

Take initiatives to do more than mere lending. Bankers are back in the news. For the obvious reason they think that with the Securitization Bill they can recover the NPAs easily. Some of the high profile banks, notably ICICI have attached industrial properties.