-The Hindu Business Line Wheat stocks already low due to low production, concerns mounting about dip in paddy sowing Rice and wheat stock in the Central Pool, managed by the Food Corporation of India (FCI), is at a five-year low, mainly due to lower procurement of wheat. Rice stock, though above 2020 level, may deplete fast in case there is a drop in production during current kharif season as paddy transplanting has...
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Climate resilient millets boost livelihood opportunities for Odisha’s tribal women -Aishwarya Mohanty
-India.Mongabay.com * Millets are being revived in the state of Odisha, on a large scale under its flagship Odisha Millets MISsion. Millets grow well in dry zones as rain-fed crops and are considered low-duty crops. * The revival is helping women farmers in the tribal districts of the state to enhance their livelihood opportunities and become financially independent. * In Mayurbhanj, the third most populous district in Odisha, the number of women farmers...
More »No silver-bullet solutions for water supply worries -Veena Srinivasan
-Deccan Herald Many of our policies are great on paper, but they face bottlenecks in planning and implementation Water has high political salience as a subject in India. The country has made steady progress in access to drinking water since the National Drinking Water MISsion was launched in 1986. The Jal Jeevan MISsion (JJM) launched in 2019 furthers this progress by aiming to provide functional tap connections to every house. This does not...
More »Moving policy away from population control -Aditi Chaudhary and Nandlal MIShra
-The Hindu India’s focus should be on investment in human capital, on older adults living with dignity, and on healthy population ageing The United Nations’ World Population Prospects (WPP), 2022, forecasts India becoming the most populous country by 2023, surpassing China, with a 140 crore population. This is four times the population India had at the time of Independence in 1947 (34 crore). Now, at the third stage of the demographic transition,...
More »Cereal inflation would be hard to tame amidst low rice acreage
Is India going to face inflation in cereal prices during the rest of the current financial year? Experts differ on this. An analysis by Nomura Global Economics and CEIC finds that a below normal monsoon does not always translate into high retail inflation in food. Similarly, an above normal southwest monsoon does not always bring down the rate of food inflation. However, some agricultural experts (please click here, here and...
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