-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The prices of vegetables and fruits are likely to go up in Delhi as supplies from Uttarakhand and neighbouring areas have been affected due to the recent floods. The Yamuna flood plain - a major source of vegetables and fruits in the capital - has been washed away completely. "We get 7-8 tempos of watermelons, cauliflower, spinach and bottle gourds from farmers in the Yamuna belt...
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Following the domestic iron ore trail-Sudipto Mondal
-The Hindu The travails of an official who tried to trace the route, destination of the ore THE STORY SO FAR A six-month investigation by The Hindu shows that 350 million tonnes of iron ore was transported out of Bellary between 2006 and 2010 costing the exchequer over Rs. 1 lakh crore. The Lokayukta report had pegged the loss at Rs. 12,228 crore. Our investigation showed that 200 million tonnes of ore was...
More »No Country For Countrymen -Arun Sinha
-Outlook As the Manmohan Singh government makes evident its unfriendliness to villages, the nation hurtles towards disaster. It's a danger no one wants to face. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been trying for years to make us believe that agriculture is a vast marshland in which a huge population is stuck ankle- to neck-deep and it is his duty to rescue them. "Our salvation lies in moving people out of agriculture," he...
More »A grain of common sense-Sreenivasan Jain
-The Business Standard Chhattisgarh proves no cash transfer or UID is needed to make PDS work Viewed from a ration shop in Surguja in the largely poor tribal north of Chhattisgarh, the arguments for and against the food security Bill seem way off the mark. We had travelled there to see first-hand Chhattisgarh's much-celebrated transformation of its broken, corrupt public distribution system (a recent survey found that wastage of PDS grain dropped...
More »How to reduce our rotting mountains of grain
-The Economic Times India's GDP growth has almost halved from 9.2% in 2010-11 to 5% in 2012-12. Major problems include a high current account deficit, high fiscal deficit, and lack of bank credit for small and medium enterprises. All three problems can be mitigated substantially by one single measure - reducing excess food stocks. So say Ashok Gulati and Surabhi Jain, chairman and joint director respectively of the Commission for Agricultural...
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