What are the broader requirements and consideration? The farmers of Punjab, as we write are on a war path. It is an unusual agitation, an agitation very unprecedented in independent India, India had never seen such a massive show of protest that had prolonged for more than 45 days, almost one and half month long….
Category: Agriculture
Farmers’ agitation must end!
Better it ends right now! There is as of now, as we writes massive trust deficit between the farmers and the government and this trust deficit must somehow be brought to an end. How is the unresolved question. Farmers’ agitation and the way the deadlock is going to be resolved. The role of the media…
Protests in a democracy okay!
But peaceful protests can’t be prolonged or unlimited! The current farmers protests in Delhi has created a new phenomenon from starting as a peaceful protest by farmers from Punjab and Haryana, mostly Jat-Sikh farmers who, as everyone in the rest of the country knows, are relatively well-off comparatively and well organised as a professional group,…
The three new agriculture-related Bills!
India has to change and specifically Indian agriculture sector has to change radically in many ways. Today the politics in India is so polarised that even if you want to make any honest and even innocent pronunciation it is suspect and mistaken in terms of the highly polarised politics. And let us not forget for…
Indian agriculture at the cross roads!
Our farmers must enjoy the benefits of new technological revolutions in not only cultivation but also marketing and realising higher incomes.New Bills would only facilitate modernisation of out-moded practices!Prime Minister’s assurance of doubling of farmers incomes must be made a reality very soon! Why there is continuation of farmers’ agitations in Punjab and Haryana. Not…
Agriculture revival needs further attention to micro level fine-tuning
More attention to the ground level realities. The social and economic and the panchayat level reforms are critical. These further details call for critical analysis on policy implementation. The revival of the economy seems to be very much dependent upon the agri sector. All other sectors, industry, infrastructure etc seem to be still in the…
Creating more jobs in agriculture!
It can only be a slow process! The very global surface, it seems, is one of vast barren land, stretching miles and miles of unending desert land, looking like newly discovered forests and uninhabited empty spaces or other desolate stretches. That never end. This is the impression I got recently after seeing a series of…
Indian agriculture on the way to recovery?
Agriculture is always a sensitive and therefore controversial field and every media outlet, be it the mainstream newspapers or specialist magazines have their own priorities. Today the entire world over we have a new crisis in farming looming large and that is this global level Covid-1 attack that had crippled societies and economies. The new…