Category: Agriculture

Let more people, politicians and experts and thinkers debate and discuss! As elections near, farmers are getting forgotten! Farmers as vote-banks are a different category of people! From being debtors and litigants farmers become pampered for short periods! You see in a democratic country like India where periodic elections every five years and in many…

Is there time to think of agriculture and farmers? Yes, much has been talked about farmers, their own tales of woe and tonnes of promises to help them etc. Rahul Gandhi has promised the moon, all farmers’ loans he promises to wipe out! As for the BJP, the Prime Minister has vowed to protect farmers,…

Too many government schemes, too many promises! Also, the political parties are mobilising them to march to Delhi or Mumbai demanding too many redressed of their grievances! The PM-Kisan Scheme is the latest to catch the public attention! The Central government is to pay Rs.2, 000 out of Rs.6, 000 as minimum income payment after…

Farm loan waivers and universal basic incomes! Two new buzz words! Agriculture as we near the election 2019 has come to connote many a new buzz word. It is now agri crisis, agri distress and also jobs crisis and many such trendy outbursts. If you leave out the much debated Rafael deal what are you…

The long-term is clear, not the short term! The 119 billionaires in India saw the rise of their wealth rising at Rs.200 crore a day! While  13.6 crore Indians who make up the bottom 10 per cent, have continued to languish in debts, continue to languish so since 2004. Readers and conscience keepers can deduce…

What the new MP Chief Minister Mr.Kamal Nath says about preference for only locals is not acceptable! How can we ban the imigration, yes, the seasonal migration of farm labour from one state to another can be controlled by any state policy? This is unwise and must be curbed at the very beginning. Who doesn’t…

Where is it? Farmers’ litigations: reduce pending court cases. Farmers must be compulsorily insured and also their healthcare insurance. Farmers are also prone to much litigation. So, please take steps to reduce the number of litigations in which farmers, both the sides, sometimes as tenants and land lords or sometime out of rivalries or jealousies…

Where is it? Farmers’ litigations: reduce pending court cases. Farmers must be compulsorily insured and also their healthcare insurance. Farmers are also prone to much litigation. So, please take steps to reduce the number of litigations in which farmers, both the sides, sometimes as tenants and land lords or sometime out of rivalries or jealousies…