-The Indian Express Farmers tend to lose out irrespective of whether crop prices go up or down. Government needs to rectify this. The price of tur/ arhar dal had recently skyrocketed to Rs 200 per kg and the consumer as well as the government were at their wits’ end. Not very long ago, high onion prices were making everyone shed copious tears. In both the cases, there was profit maximisation by...
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Rural distress: Droughts in food bowl likely to push farmers to cities -Komal Amit Gera
-Business Standard Drop in wheat acreage evidence of stress in agriculture Chandigarh: Two consecutive drought years have led to rural distress in the food bowl states. At some places, this has become even worse due to the attack of the white pest. Sahiblal Shukla, a farmer in Chitrakut in Uttar Pradesh , who has spent his lifetime in ploughing fields says that, “farmers in Bundelkhand area of the state may soon pack their...
More »This is how a Karnataka village stopped discriminating against a Dalit cook in a govt school -Anisha Sheth
-TheNewsMinutes.com It needed not just convincing, but also the threat of legal action against those who discriminated It took a lot of convincing, backed by the possibility of cases being filed against them, to get upper caste people to stop objecting to a Dalit woman being appointed as a cook in the Mysuru government school, where Chief Minister Siddaramaiah studied. On Friday, The Indian Express reported that attendance at a government school...
More »Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog speaks to Richa Mishra and Surabhi
-The Hindu Business Line The decline in share of cooperatives in total farm credit is a cause for concern and needs to be corrected, says Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog . An agriculture expert and a full-time member of the Aayog, Chand believes that financial inclusion in the sector has three dimensions – geographical distribution of farm credit, more long-term credit, and larger role of cooperatives. In an interaction with BusinessLine, Chand...
More »India to press for equity at climate talks -G Ananthakrishnan
-The Hindu India’s strategy at the Paris Climate Change summit will be to work with emerging economies and press the developed world to concede that responsibility for cutting carbon emissions after 2020 cannot be shared equally by rich and poor nations. Two major issues that New Delhi will focus on at the Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are failed ambitions on transferring low...
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