-TheWire.in Unless the state government has a system to ensure that landowners sign tenancy agreements, the new Act may not bring in any noteworthy changes. On July 25, soon after coming to power with an absolute majority, the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party-led state government passed the Andhra Pradesh Crop Cultivators Rights Act, 2019. The promises made to Farmers by the YSRCP in the run up to the polls had elicited great hope...
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Linking Farmers to futures market in India -Tirtha Chatterjee, Raghav Raghunathan and Ashok Gulati
-Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), Working Paper 383 Farmers, especially small and marginal, do not directly trade in agri-futures market in India. Their small size, lack of trust and understanding of futures market and dependence on middlemen, are some of the main deterrents. The role of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is crucial in this context since they can procure commodities, aggregate them and ensure that size and...
More »Zero Budget Natural Farming: Another Case of 'Raw Wisdom' Over Science? -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in The Centre says the method will improve crop productivity and reduce input costs, but it remains unclear which scientific studies – if any – these conclusions are derived from. New Delhi: During her budget speech in July, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman responded to widespread Farmers’ distress by saying that they would be encouraged to adopt a ‘zero budget’ technique that would take India’s agriculture sector ‘back to basics’. Zero-budget natural farming...
More »Will Punjab and Haryana HC's recommendations reduce Farmers' burden? -Rajeev Khanna
-Down to Earth The court’s suggestions, like making MSP a legal right and increasing it to thrice the cost of production, are practical but need effort in implementation, say experts The Punjab and Haryana high court recently recommended that minimum support price (MSP) be made Farmers’ legal right and it be set at three times the cost of production. But will these or a slew of other measures the court suggested address...
More »'Accelerating exodus from farming key to achieve target of doubling income' -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth To double Farmers’ income reduce the number of Farmers, suggest policy makers Among senior officials in the Union government and members of the Niti Aayog, conversations now start and end with one subject: “doubling Farmers’ income by 2022”. Clearly, the obsession with open defecation-free India is over as, unofficially, India has achieved the target before the October 2019 deadline. But the new target to double Farmers’ income by 2022 has...
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