Category: Agriculture

Govt gets panicky on price rises! Food grains distribution to the States to be reduced! Prices rise steeply for rice, wheat, sugar, pulses and edible oils! Sugar costs Rs.22 per kg! Wheat, sugar and milk prices contribute directly to inflation. So, desperate steps to impose restriction and other actions under the Essential commodities act. The…

Agri sector in Bengal disappointing! Bengal has to go a long way before it can transform the agri sector into a commercially thriving sector for any new agro entrepreneurship. Just to compare Maharashtrian agri sector with that of Bengal is like to compare two different worlds! West Bengal was once the richest State but it…

Kerala seeks control over five dams! Supreme Court directs the raising of the height of Narmada Dam! Yes, the inter-state waters disputes are no more news. They make news whenever the state politicians have no other purposeful jobs on hand!  So, comes the news of persisting inter-state rivers disputes, from one state or other. Now,…

Economic nationalism in industry and agriculture The India-born Lakshmi Mittal’s takeover of the Europe’s biggest stall maker, Arcelor, now Arcelor-Mittal Steel, made lots of headlines for months. The major European governments, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Spain, the Presidents  and Prime Ministers of these countries raised a hue and cry over their own nationalistic industry (they held…

UP is always in the news. For all its political importance. But the State is known for its extreme complexity in all its many dimensions, political complexity, political instability and the big number MPs who make up the composition of the Central Government in all desirable and undesirable ways! UP’s economic and social backwardness is…

This is the time for farmers, farm entrepreneurs! To invest and make big money in the farm sector! You have to know the changes in our economic sectors and policies! You have to know the new opportunities. New innovative agri projects are coming up. Almost everyday! So many people ask us, they visit us or…

Vidarbha farmers’ continued suicides haunt the Prime Minister and the Agri Minister! What needs to be done?  Prime Minister must deliver or ……! Prime Minister had visited the farmers’ suicide zone of India, Vidarbha and listened to the farmers’ problem!  It is a nice gesture after two years of so much indifference! The CWC had…

Contrast the Food Processing Ministry with others! It is agriculture that doesn’t make news for the right reasons? It is in the news for the wrong reasons!  That should explain the failures on the agriculture front. We are saying this with a sense of mission, with a sense of sorrow and with a sense of…