-The Hindu Business Line The fodder crop deserves a central place in the agri-ecosystem and needs institutional support, such as crop insurance The recent increase in fodder costs have played a major role in rising milk PRIces, hitting dairy farmers hard. Fodder inflation has seen a sharp hike in the last four months, despite the softening of overall WPI inflation in the recent months. The overall WPI inflation has eased to 10.70 per...
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A year of extreme weather events has weighed heavy on India’s agricultural sector -Vivek Gupta
-India.mongabay.com * After the drop in wheat production due to heat waves, extreme weather events have now cast a shadow on rice production, which is likely to drop beyond centre’s initial 6% loss estimate. * In six years (2015-21), the country lost 33.9 million hectares of the cropped area due to floods and excess rains and 35 million hectares due to drought, which are likely to intensify as various studies predict. * Centre...
More »Editorial on recent growth of PRIvate schools
-The Telegraph One reason for the shift to PRIvate schools is the inadequate number of government institutions What government schools lacked in glamour they once made up in width and depth of study and aspirations towards social inclusiveness. The recent growth of PRIvate schools suggests that even their academic credentials have become suspect. According to the Global Education Monitoring Report, 2022 by Unesco, in the last eight years, seven out of 10...
More »Reforming the PDS for better nutrition -Surabhi Mittal
-Hindustan Times India ranked 107th out of 121 assessed countries on the 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI). Although there are some measurement issues in the GHI, the report says there is high malnutrition in India due to rice-wheat biased policies. Malnutrition in India manifests itself in terms of triple burden – underweight especially among poor, hidden hunger (deficiency in micronutrients), and overweight. The National Food Security Act, 2013 (NFSA) was introduced to...
More »Bengal’s premium variety aromatic rice witnesses 11% decline in PRIce -Shobha Roy
-The Hindu Business Line Production of Gobindobhog rice is estimated to be 5-7 per cent higher this year on the back of a better-quality crop giving a better paddy to rice conversion rate West Bengal’s premium variety of aromatic rice — Gobindobhog – has witnessed a near 11 per cent decline in PRIces on the back of prospects of arrival of a higher crop and better quality produce. The imposition of 20...
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