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Why food inflation may turn sticky -Sayantan Bera

-Livemint.com * Despite the slowdown in rural demand, the spike in food prices is not showing any signs of cooling. Here’s why * This is the best time for the budget to address the volatility in food prices. Reliable market intelligence on crop production and timely advisories to Farmers can help stabilize prices New Delhi: For more than five years now, the Indian countryside has only heard stories of anguish. Consecutive years of...

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Move to cash transfers will lead to savings, put agriculture on sustainable growth path -Ashok Gulati

-The Indian Express All such investments will go a long way to augment Farmers’ incomes in a sustainable manner. Else, I am afraid, much of the talk in the Union budget for agri-reforms will remain mere rhetoric. Although the Union budget is basically an accounting exercise of revenues and expenditures for the coming year, economy-watchers anxiously wait for the finance minister to announce major economic reforms. In that sense, the budget of...

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More unemployed and self-employed people committed suicide than Farmers in 2018, show NCRB data

-PTI Students and un-employed victims accounted for 7.6% (10,159) and 9.6% (12,936) of total suicides respectively. At least 35 unemployed and 36 self-employed people on an average ended their lives every day in 2018, with the two categories together accounting for 26,085 suicide deaths during the year, according to official data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Unemployed persons (12,936) were slightly behind those self-employed (13,149) who took their own lives,...

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Farm Pollution: Happy Seeder produces not-so-happy results on ground -Anju Agnihotri Chaba

-The Indian Express Area under paddy stubble burning in Punjab up despite number of machines almost doubling. Jalandhar: Punjab Farmers have sown 4.50 lakh hectares (lh) wheat area this time using Happy Seeders. This is nearly 13% of the total 35.08 lh planted under the rabi cereal crop in the state. Not bad, it would seem, for a relatively new technology, which allows wheat to be directly seeded in combine-harvested paddy fields...

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Budget 2020-21: Will MGNREGA become an overarching rural development scheme -Richard Mahapatra

-Down to Earth The upcoming budget will see many schemes being brought under the rural employment programme; a direct cash transfer may be declared to top this up Union Budget 2020-21 will be a landmark for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Not just because India is going through an economic slowdown, but also for the fact that it will herald a countdown for many of his ambitious promises that come with prime ministerial...

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