-Scroll.in The National Policy on Marine Fisheries is tentative and fails to address the real problems of traditional Fishing communities. Though India cannot call itself a nation of Fish-eaters, it does have some of the world’s richest Fishery resources and an Exclusive Economic Zone in the ocean the size of 60% of its land area. It ranks third in world Fish production with a harvest of 6.3 million tonnes. This is...

-Livemint.com There is a growing risk that inflation may spike in the coming months The sharp drop in prices of farm products over the past few months has not just upset farmers across the country, but also seems to have complicated the task of India’s monetary authorities. The minutes of the last meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show that the committee is divided...

-BusinessWorld.in There simply are no easy solutions to the crisis in Indian agriculture, a product of decades of neglect and poor policies It is quite macabre, really — the barely concealed glee that seems to course through liberal analysts and intellectuals whenever it looks like Prime Minister Narendra Modi is heading for trouble. Macabre, because as the latest series of protests and events centred around farmers show, it is as ghoulish as...

-The Hindu Barrier-free tributaries flowing in can mitigate the effect, factoring in high-impact projects A new study has found that dams and other barriers across rivers in the Western Ghats do affect Fish species and their recovery downstream. However, barrier-free tributaries that drain in to these rivers can help Fish recover even in dammed stretches; protecting such tributaries could be crucial to maintaining Fish diversity in the Western Ghats. The Western Ghats is...

-The Indian Express Agriculture cannot survive without them. But they are invisible in the current conversation on the agrarian crisis An ex-company executive-cum-economist turns to the anchor during a discussion on the farmers’ agitation. “Overpopulation is destroying the farming activity. There are simply too many mouths to feed and the farms are shrinking. We must look to the urban areas for creating new jobs,” he says. The man at the local paan...