This is a statement sent in by V.R. Krishna Iyer, a former Judge of the Supreme Court, who is based in Kochi: Some of the provisions of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that India recently signed with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) will weaken India’s, and specifically Kerala’s, rubber sector because Malaysia and a few other countries that are a part of the ASEAN will flood the...
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Gene mutation and food by Kavitha Kuruganti
Dr M.S. Swaminathan, considered the Father of the Green Revolution in India, finally stated his views on genetically-modified (GM) crops in an opinion piece published on August 26, 2009, in this newspaper. GM crops are produced by inserting foreign genes, mostly non-plant genes (bacterial, viral and animal genes) for obtaining hitherto non-existent, new characteristics in a crop. For instance, the Bt class of GM crops like Bt cotton and Bt...
More »Rising prices: What is the govt doing? by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
The spectre of inflation has returned to haunt India. It is not even six months since the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government returned to power but its inability to control food prices is arguably its single biggest failure till now. The inflation rate will eventually come down sometime in the (hopefully) not-too-distant future and the government will surely take credit for bringing prices down as and when that happens. But...
More »How to Minimise Displacement through Alternative Patterns of Development by Bharat Dogra
Displacement has become a leading source of discontent and impoverishment in India and many other developing countries. In the case of some vulnerable groups like tribals, it is perhaps the leading source of poverty and discontent resulting in widespread violence in several places. Thus policies which promote large-scale displacement not only increase poverty, these are also a threat to peace and democracy. Unfortunately it has been taken for granted by many...
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खास बात • राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर हुई कुल आत्महत्याओं में किसान-आत्महत्याओं का प्रतिशत साल 1996 में 15.6% , साल 2002 में 16.3% साल 2006 में 14.4% , साल 2009 में 13.7% तथा साल 2010 में 11.9% तथा साल 2011 में 10.3% रहा है। # • राष्ट्रीय स्तर पर हुई कुल आत्महत्याओं में किसान-आत्महत्याओं का प्रतिशत साल 2014 में 9.4%,साल 2015 में 9.43%, साल 2016 में 8.7%, साल 2017 में 8.2%, साल 2018 में 7.69% रहा है। • 2018...
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