-IPS News SUNDARBANS, India- When the gentle clucking grows louder, 50-year-old Sukomal Mandal calls out to his wife, who is busy grinding ingredients for a fish curry. She gets up to thrust leafy green stalks through the netting of a coop and two-dozen shiny hens rush forward for lunch. In the Sundarbans, where the sea is slowly swallowing up the land, Mandal's half-hectare farm is an oasis of prosperity. The elderly couple resides...
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Few takers for solar agri pump scheme -V Kamalakara Rao
-The Times of India VISAKHAPATNAM: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy ( UMNRE)'s eco-friendly concept of promoting solar powered water pumps among Farmers in coastal AP seems to have met with a tepid response as only 200-odd Farmers in the five coastal districts falling under the purview of the Eastern Power Distribution Company of AP Limited (APEPDCL) have evinced interest in picking up these pumps. A few months ago,...
More »Farmers seek representation in NITI Aayog -R Vimal Kumar
-The Hindu Tirupur (Tamil Nadu): "Farming population has shrunk in the country by about 25 per cent since Independence and continues to dwindle at a steady pace. Farmers' suicides are still a concern. "To arrest the trend and save the farm sector, the farming community should be given adequate representation in the newly constituted NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog that replaced the Planning Commission". This is one of the...
More »Universal healthcare: the affordable dream -Amartya Sen
-The Guardian Universal healthcare is often presented as an idealistic goal that remains out of reach for all but the richest nations. That's not the case, writes Amartya Sen. Look at what has been achieved in Rwanda, Thailand and Bangladesh Twenty-five hundred years ago, the young Gautama Buddha left his princely home, in the foothills of the Himalayas, in a state of agitation and agony. What was he so distressed about?...
More »Rural wage growth lowest in 10 years, signals farm distress, falling inflation -Harish Damodaran & Surabhi
-The Indian Express Rural wages in India have registered an average annual growth of 3.8 per cent in November, the lowest since July 2005, according to Labour Bureau data. The 3.8 per cent year-on-year increase is a significant drop relative to the two-digit growth rates prevailing until June, and the peak 20 per cent-plus levels of 2011 (see graph). "The numbers confirm the findings in our mid-year economic analysis that inflation is...
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