Gujarat's business acumen and entrepreneurial zest is passé; the State's leap-frogging with 11 per cent agricultural growth, praised by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) last year, is old hat too. What is new is this: Gujarat may now export more ‘kesar', the famous mango variety of the State, to West Asia than Maharashtra sells alphonso; the State has entered Goa market with cashew nut; and an Ahmedabad-based part-time...

Plan to conduct an array of sensitisation programme  Farmers will be taught the raising and technical aspects of jatropha farming They will be educated on aspects like digging bore well and disc ploughing Tirupur: Promotion of methods to develop wasteland and subsequently take up large scale cultivation of jatropha on it will be on the top of the priority list for the Department of Agriculture in Tirupur district during the current financial...

But they are smaller in comparison with those found in Punjab and Haryana Gujarat has acquired the distinction of having the largest number of agricultural godowns and storage sites in rural areas, the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has said. The number of rural godowns in Gujarat touched 5,293 with a total storage capacity of 14.97 lakh metric tonnes. But they are smaller as compared to those...

The glitter of growth has added little sparkle to the lives of many peasants and rural workers. Deprivation, discrimination, and disadvantage dominate the everyday lives of large sections in rural Andhra Pradesh, an important new study*finds.  Village studies highlight features of society that are often overlooked and overshadowed by macro-studies of the economy. A recent study presents extraordinarily rich, unusually detailed and intensely disturbing data on agrarian relations, livelihoods, economic...

In India peasantry is under assault. There is a five-pronged attack on this class and the mighty Indian state is sometimes an active and sometimes a passive abettor. The first point of attack is from the corporate sector. The corporate sector is in a land grab mode. Though not justified, one could understand their urge to get land for industry and real estate purposes. Not that they are causing aggressive...