-The Hindu Business Line Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is the new buzzword among development professionals and NGOs — both public and private! Everyone wants to mobilise the community and establish FPOs. Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) is the new buzzword among development professionals and NGOs — both public and private! Everyone wants to mobilise the community and establish FPOs. FPOs present the power of aggregation, farmers’ come together, form an organisation, which collectively buys...
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What is in store for India’s imports?
There is some respite expected for India in terms of prices of imported commodities. This may ease the depletion of its foreign exchange reserves. The country has faced a widening of its merchandise trade deficit from US$ -17.91 billion to US$ -26.91 billion between October 2021 and October 2022. The commodity price data provided by the World Bank in December 2022 (termed as The Pink Sheet) shows that energy prices plummeted by...
More »Open Field Tests of GM Mustard Need to be Conducted with Utmost Precaution: AIPSN
-The Hindu “It would have been better if seed production trials take place in a controlled rather than in an open environment so as to assess various risks before conducting open field trials,” read a statement by the AIPSN. Following the go-ahead for production and field testing of hybrid seeds of genetically modified (GM) mustard, All-India Peoples Science Network (AIPSN) has demanded that the open field tests, if any, be conducted with...
More »GM Mustard: Doctors demand ban on crops, uprooting of trial plantations -Himanshu Nitnaware
-Down to Earth Over 100 doctors across India submit letter to PM Modi warning of health concerns Doctors across India have come together to express their concern against the plantation of genetically modified (GM) mustard crops, which recently received the Centre’s go-ahead for its environmental clearance. A letter has been submitted by 111 doctors across various fields to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding immediate uprooting of the trial plantations of the genetically modified...
More »Need to make agri credit system equitable -Bishwa Bhaskar Choudhary
-The Tribune The agency-wise share indicates that Agricultural credit dispensation in the country is heavily dependent on commercial banks and points towards the poor credit delivery capability of cooperative banks and regional rural banks. THE availability of finance is a key driver of progress in any sector. In the case of agriculture, access to adequate credit assumes vital significance since most of the agriculturists are small or marginal farmers. It has been...
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