-The Hindu CPI for agricultural and rural workers increased by 10 points each last month Rising food PRIces spurred an increase by 10 points each in the all-India Consumer PRIce Index (CPI) for agricultural and rural labourers, respectively, last month, the Ministry of Labour and Employment said in a release on Saturday. An increase in the PRIces of rice, wheat-atta, jowar, bajra, ragi, vegetables and fruits contributed the bulk of the spike in...
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Project report 'Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20' by Foundation for Agrarian Studies
-Foundation for Agrarian Studies The project report titled “Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20,” has been released in APRIl, 2022. The report has been prepared by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies with the support of Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, New Delhi. In 2021, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies conducted a research project to analyse the trends in public spending on agriculture in India for the most recent decade (2010-11 to...
More »Inflation Spiral is Hitting the Working Poor the Hardest -Sanjay Roy
-IPA News Service/Newsclick.in Time is ripe to do away with every central cess on petroleum products and reject the government’s narrative that the poor are hurt less by higher PRIces than the rich. The country is in the grip of an inflationary spiral resulting in a galloping PRIce rise of all essential goods used by people. This crushing PRIce burden is making life exceedingly difficult for the rural and urban poor. The retail...
More »Wheat output to fall 3% from last year, says Centre
-Scroll.in Heatwaves across many wheat-producing states have resulted in a dip in the production of the staple grain this year. India’s wheat production is likely to fall 3% to 106.41 million tonnes this year from last year’s output of 109.59 million tonnes, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday, citing the Union agriculture ministry’s third advance estimates of output of food grains. Severe heatwaves across many wheat-producing states have resulted in a dip in...
More »Lessons from Rs 2 – Rs 100 Tomato pendulum
-The New Indian Express The steep fluctuation of PRIces in a crop whose consumption and cultivation cycles are well documented speaks volumes about the patchy intervention measures taken over the years. The retail PRIce of tomato has hit a high of Rs 100 per kg in Tamil Nadu just a couple of months after PRIces dropped to as low as Rs 2 per kg. There were reports from across the state about...
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