-The Hindu Business Line Bengaluru: Prospects for wheat exports in the new marketing season are Turning bleak on falling global prices even as the country is seen headed for a bumper output this year. The recent fall in Euro against the dollar has made the French wheat cheaper thereby exerting pressure on the global prices. Wheat prices, which hovered around $6.6 a bushel in Chicago during mid December are now down to...
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NDA planned to amend, restrict rural job Act -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Limits funds to states under the scheme and still looking to reduce labour budget ratios The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had begun work on amending the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), restricting the coverage to a few backward districts, leaving out large portions of Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala from its ambit. The plan was eventually shelved after protests and a debate in...
More »Modi government's doublespeak on food security is a recipe for chaos and corruption -Jean Drèze
-Scroll.in The strongest safeguard against fraud is not end-to-end computerisation but clarity of entitlements: if people know what is due to them, they will fight for it. In a stunning admission of party hypocrisy, former Food Minister Shanta Kumar recently stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party's support for the National Food Security Act last year was just a pretence. Remember, when the act was being discussed in Parliament, BJP leaders (from Narendra...
More »Adopt ‘smart agriculTure’ to negate climate change effects: Expert -Snehlata Shrivastav
-The Times of India NAGPUR: 'Smart AgriculTure' is a concept that is being proposed by scientists, experts and planners as an answer to climate change which, along with other causes, is making agriculTure unsustainable. Smart agriculTure is also being projected to increase overall productivity, generate more employment and also conserve environment. Speaking to TOI, JC Katyal, former deputy director general of Indian Council of AgriculTural Research (ICAR) and former vice-chancellor of Haryana...
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-PTI New Delhi: The drug price regulator has sought details of patented medicines as part of a drive to fix their rates. The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) is also fixing the price ceiling for 102 drugs on the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) and has asked for financial data, like retail rates and the firms' Turnover. On patented drugs imported or manufacTured for sale in India, the NPPA has called for...
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