-Moneycontrol.com An intense focus on securing market access abroad and promoting Indian goods saw dozens of new products including Himachali millets and Chandauli’s black rice being shipped from India to several new destinations such as the UAE, and Denmark India’s agriculture and allied exports grew at a brisk 21 percent in the first eight months of the current financial year despite broken supply chains and various challenges brought about by the COVID-19...
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Zero-budget natural farming could lead to yield loss: panel -Sandip Das
-Financial Express According to Rao, the ICAR committee went through more than 1,400 scientific journals on various methods of promotion of sustainable agriculture besides interacting with farmers who have claimed to have adopted ZBNF across seven states. Large scale adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) — farm practices which exclude all synthetic chemical inputs and promote use of on-farm biomass — would result in ‘tremendous reduction’ in production of agricultural crops...
More »How the Rise of Global Inflation Will Play Out in Indian Politics -MK Venu
-TheWire.in Today, fuel prices are at an all-time high. Once the genie of inflation is out of the bottle, as it does once in a decade or so, no amount of narrative spinning by the Modi government will work. This year is likely to herald the return of global inflation in ways not seen in the past 20 years. We have witnessed inflation remaining rather subdued from the beginning of this century....
More »Myth of coverage: How state delay, private sector disinterest caused PM-JAY to fail -Shagun
-Down to Earth Almost 90% of COVID-19 hospitalisations under the scheme took place in 4 states The Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), India’s flagship health insurance scheme launched in 2018, provided cushion to only 14.25 per cent of people hospitalised for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) between April 2020 and June 2021. The scheme’s failure during the pandemic was expected. Since health is a state subject and PM-JAY is implemented by the...
More »Bihar not testing enough despite surging COVID-19 cases, official data shows -Mohd Imran Khan
-Down to Earth Bihar government has not focussed on ramping up testing despite its claims to the contrary, say activists Bihar is not testing enough even as novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases have surged in the past few days, an analysis of official state data shows. This is contrary to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Health Minister Mangal pandey’s claim that the state is conducting a large number of tests. Bihar tested 184,750...
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