What can be done, both in the short and the long-term? Short-run solutions are obvious. Give farm loans waiver! Easy to say, difficult to implement! This demand and also conceding the demand is now more a political decision and it is for the Prime Minister, more than for anyone to take a final decision. Farmers…
Category: Agriculture
Doubling farm incomes in five years?
Is it just a mirage and election-eve slogan? Indian agriculture won’t change easily Government budget is still subsidy-driven and populist only. You see, there are many experts who are specialists in agri sector. Also, there are rural experts, many highly devoted and committed to rural India and also others who can give a summary of…
Modi’s UP election promise to wipe off the farmers loans!
SBI and other banks seem to oppose the move! SBI chairperson, Arundhati Bhattacharya has come out to openly express her reservations. This she had said so to a CII, the private industry body. Prime Minister Modi won an unprecedented election victory, UP victory is something really unusual and such an absolute majority has done many…
What is happening in the agri sector?
Is there is a concern for the drought and distress in the agriculture? What progress we have made in the many new projects like river-linkages? The government of Mr.Narendra Modi seems to have brought in a new reality or unreality for the all-important agri sector! From the estimates released by the government we are led…
Crop insurance scheme suffers on multiple fronts!
No CMD for the Agriculture Insurance Corporation! Prime Minister’s many welfare schemes: what progress? There are many of the Modi government welfare schemes that are advertised extensively. One of the welfare schemes is about the farmers’ crop insurance scheme. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yojana. It is a year since the scheme was launched. The new…
An Optimistic Outlook for Agriculture?
With a rain deficit of 60 per cent? Yes, it looks like, considering the erratic weather pattern predicted by the various global weather models and also their over-all prediction of a ‘rain-normal’ model for the New Year for the country. From Thiruvanathanpuram comes news of a report on scattered to isolated rain for the Southern…
The new realities in rural India!
Yes, there are now better realisation why Indian agriculture matters. Why rural India matters? Why agriculture and rural sectors don’t make news? Simply because there is no wider social recognition! May be from now onwards with environment, pollution and other issues, not the least is the health sector issues and the very emergence of an…
Job creation, the major worry for the Indian policy makers
Niti Aayog drawing up agri reforms! Agri sector is long neglected in fundamental policy thinking and hence there is no policy reforms for long. Now, we learn that Niti Aayog, the old Planning Commission-type policy making body set up by the new government seems to be really serious bout agri reforms. The external factors for…