Farmers agitate and come out on the roads and show their anger and helplessness! Of course, agriculture, as we say, is always a difficult sector. It has become more and more so simply because we tend to take the disorganised, inequity-ridden sector for granted. The very many antiquated land laws, from agricultural landownership to tenancy…
Category: Agriculture
Farmer’s distress takes ugly turns!
In many states, 100 and odd farmers groups, on the roads! What prevents purposive actions and decisions? The Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken well and in an eloquent manner at Khekhda in Meerat on the occasion of inauguration of the 135 km Easter Peripheral Express way in Bagpat on the role of farmers in…
Travelling through the Indian states!
The South vs. the North! Some general observations! Too much of political news is not good for any society. More so, in India where we see some of the curious scenarios. One is more about party politics and that too after the 2014 elections there is too much distortion of certain issues of society. So…
K.C.Chandrashekhar Rao
Telangana Chief Minister’s revolutionary farm reforms! Let us congratulate the hon’ble Chief Minister! Agriculture is never easy. It is a tough field. It requires tonnes of nerves and unlimited will power. For politicians lately, agriculture has become a plaything. How many Chief Ministers, the ambitious and the cunning ones, specially have promised instant farm loan…
Agriculture and rural India has no media focus!
So, the problems of farmers and villages continue to suffer We are glad to see the Prime Minister’s visit to the Left-Wing Extremists-affected Chhattisgarh districts is very inspiring and timely. Why not the much talked about technology-enabled schemes, the rural BPO programmes take off in such remote villages? Very fine. We congratulate the PM and…
Agriculture’s many challenging problems!
The Prime Minister more often talks on agriculture! Farmers’s agitations matter a great deal in the current Indian context! They are becoming more and more urgent and insurmountable. Invite the experts and rural leaders, opinion makers for interaction with the PMO. Let us become practical and do things in a radically refreshing manner. No one…
Cauvery river water dispute solved?
Yes, in a significant way! Yet the state governments would keep the issue for electoral politics! The Union minister for Water Resources Mr.Parshottam Rupala, was in Coimbatore the other day and he took the opportunity to reassure the farmers of Tamil Nadu to say that the Central government was not taking any partial stand with…
Agriculture in India is proving to be the most difficult area for the government to tackle the farmers, rural peoples’ unrest.
Yes, agriculture is a serious business and the government in the last three years has found that it is the agri sector, the rural sector that is proving elusive in its grand strategy of winning over people in spite of the over-all strategy of winning elections in almost all the states. Since the Modi government…