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Rebuild Agriculture to make it future-ready -Devinder Sharma

-The Tribune Rebuild Agriculture to make it future-ready With Green Revolution having outlived its utility, it’s time to move to the next stage. The 75th anniversary of Independence provides an excellent opportunity to rethink and redesign the road map. This will call for moving away from the economic thought that has always relied on sacrificing Agriculture for the sake of industry. The focus has to be on making the village the hub...

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Poor monsoon does not always translate to high inflation

-Moneycontrol.com Here is a counterintuitive set of data, which indicates a decoupling of rains and inflation With the monsoon delayed in June and being unevenly distributed in July, everyone has been worrying about a fall in food production and resultant inflation. After all, we keep hearing that India’s Agriculture is mostly rainfed. Then, the reasoning goes like this–poor rains equals poor harvest equals high inflation.  But does poor rains really cause inflation? Here is a...

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Should a drought in Bihar be declared? Experts say yes, govt says wait -Zumbish

-Down to Earth Following central guidelines on declaring drought, good rainfall on Aug 4-5 predicted, say govt officials Bihar, like most states in north, east and central India, has suffered due to a whimsical monsoon 2022. Rainfall has been scanty as well as erratic. Farmers have already shown signs of despair, as Down To Earth reported earlier. So is this agrarian state in the grips of a drought? Scanty or erratic rains in...

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Kharif 2022: Area under paddy dips by 13% as July ends -Shagun

-Down to Earth The primary reason for the reduced sown area is the failure of the monsoon in the month of June and of its smooth progression in July in most parts of the country There is 13.27 per cent less area under paddy in 2022, compared to last year, even as the sowing of paddy was completed by the end of July in most parts of the country. Paddy is one...

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Ailing NREGA: Additional Fund Allocation Uncertain, Activists to Protest Against Poor Implementation of Scheme -Rabindra Nath Sinha

-Newsclick.in The NREGA Sangharsh Morcha has called for a protest from August 2 to 4 against insufficient fund allocation, delay in wage disbursal, and other issues in implementing the employment scheme. Kolkata: Uncertainty looms over the Centre's decision on additional fund allocation to the MGNREGA programme before undertaking the traditional mid-term review at the end of August or early September. Contrary to official expectations, the dependence of rural households on jobs under...

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