Only implementation is questioned!Insurance regulator, IRDAI, asks the Insurance Companies to honour farmers ‘crop insurance claims! High Court petitioned for enquiry over crop insurance schemes! The Karnataka High Court ordered issue of notices to the Union and State governments on a Public interest Litigation petition seeking directions for the disbursal of crop insurance to the…
Category: Agriculture
Bold initiatives are called for in Indian agriculture.
Old institutions should go! New collaborations must come in. Elections over and we can sit easy on the farm front? Agriculture is never a high priority in India given the sort of priority politicians and media give to this topic. Neither the public are too much bothered about what is happening in agriculture inside India…
How to make Indian agriculture relevant for our present times?
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…
Election time!
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,…
Farmers, lately, seem to have got too many problems!
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…
Agriculture as an election 2019 issue!
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…
Indian agrarian crisis
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…
Farm loan waivers and the migration of labour from UP and Bihar
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…