-Livemint.com As the country still continues to debate the beef ban and its impact on agrarian distress, data shows that what’s really being hit is the sex ratio of the bovine population New Delhi: Bulls are missing, both in India’s equity markets and in its fields. As the country still continues to debate the beef ban and its impact on agrarian distress, data shows that what’s really being hit is the...
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Jat violence: What exactly happened in Haryana (and why) -Anumeha Yadav
-Scroll.in The reservation protest wasn't a spur-of-the-moment agitation. It was a cynical political build-up that spilled over into the streets. Footprints of violence were everywhere in Chhavni Mohalla. A Tractor trolley lay overturned right at the entrance of the residential colony in Jhajjar. A little inside, in the middle of the road, there was a gutted Tractor. Small shops in a corner of the colony had been ransacked and burnt. The twisted...
More »Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester in UK, interviewed by Samira Bose
-CaravanMagazine.in Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University. Agarwal has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; environment and development; the political economy of gender; poverty and inequality; legal change; and agriculture and technological transformation. Her best known work is A Field...
More »The seeds of trees fuel his machines -BS Satish Kumar
-The Hindu Ramesh from Hoovinahalli is making waves with his biofuel, a 1:10-litre combination of honge oil and diesel BENGALURU: This farmer from Hoovinahalli in Hassan district has not passed SSLC. Yet, his passion for innovation and experimentation is evident in all that he does. He runs a Tractor, ragi-cleaning machine, and an irrigation pumpset on biofuel that he has produced and blended with conventional fuel. His achievement is being hailed by...
More »From plate to plough: A leaf from the MP book - Ashok Gulati & Aastha Malhotra
-The Indian Express Madhya Pradesh’s agricultural growth rates offer important lessons for the Centre Shivraj Singh Chouhan completed 10 years in office as chief minister of Madhya Pradesh last week. His most outstanding achievement is the excellent performance of agriculture — the agri-GDP of MP grew at 9.7 per cent per annum during 2005-06 to 2014-15, surpassing even record-holder Gujarat’s 7.7 per cent. The last five years have been even more...
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