Category: Agriculture

How to revive the Indian agriculture? These current economic scenarios is far from any certainty and predictability. There are many challenges, from the external challenges and the internal turmoil. Of course, the economic and political issues, in the best of times or worst of situations are always very complex and complicated. That is why in…

Lifeline for India’s economic prosperity. Times seem to have changed. Forever? It looks at this point of time it is forever! The Covid-19 Pandemic could not have come at the worst time. Among the more serious tragedies and human misery about the sights and sounds of the thousands of ads the rural migrant desperately seeking…

When do we care for farmers, if at all? When Sharad Pawar goes to meet the PM? Yes, it looks so. The other day when the government formation in Maharashtra was at its most hectic pace, Sharad Pawar the senior most old Congress leader, now the chief of the much depleted Nationalist Congress party (NCP),…

Indian agriculture’s much strength and many weaknesses!How far India has deployed agriculture sectors a political tool of trade and diplomacy? Indian agriculture matters in today’s world. India is now the world’s number one rice exporter. This has not been widely known. This must be made known widely. Now, the Indian domestic producers of commodities like…

Can help to revive agriculture! Indian Agriculture cries for action! The Nobel Prize winning Randomized control trial is one such new tool that could help boost agri production and productivity. Even there are other techs that could help to predict farm prices! Too many verbal promises and too little action programs! What do we have…

Agriculture is both economics and politics! Do you know that currently Lok Sabha MPs are 147 times more richer than rural households! The time has come to realise this utter unreality of the Policy makers empty talk and the ground level realities! 32 years after the first farmer suicide in Maharashtra, nothing has changed! This…

Hopes and despair in the agri sector persists!May be we have to learn many more things in agriculture policy making! There are reports from the Northern parts of India, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana about the hailstorm and unseasonal rains in these major wheat growing states. Varying stages of Wheat crop harvesting are reported….

Issues like climate change, monsoon changes and natural disasters seas rising. Complex issues for the educated society to give some thought from where their food is coming from! India is a youthful country, with majority young age groups! But is Indian agriculture a youthful area of development? No, Not at all. We still read about…