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Crop Diversification, not 'maniacal' river linking, is solution to water crisis: Ex-Planning Commission Member Mihir Shah -Aditya Sharma

-News18.com Calling for reorganisation of the agriculture sector and crop diversification, Mihir Shah said that agriculture must be thought of as an enterprise. Delhi: Incentivising cultivation of water-efficient crops and not “maniacal” river-linking is the need of the hour as the crippling water crisis bears down on India’s agrarian economy, former Planning Commission member and water conservationist Dr Mihir Shah has said. Calling for a reorganisation of the agriculture sector and crop...

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GDP shocker: India's position slips among world's fastest growing economies -Dipu Rai

-IndiaToday.in Data shows that consumption and investment demand are declining. Private final consumption expenditure grew by only 3.1 per cent (a 4.5-year low), while fixed capital formation grew by four per cent, 0.4 per cent less than the last quarter of the financial year 2019. Gross Domestic Product or GDP is a tool to measure and compare how good or bad countries are doing economically. Recent data of the first quarter of...

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Sentiments do have real economic benefits -Renu Kohli

-The Telegraph Investors may be buying stocks again, but fundamental drivers such as expected corporate performance remain unchanged Sentiments matter for economic growth. Optimistic or upbeat sentiments encourage consumers to buy and borrow; businesses, on the other hand, are spurred to plan and invest. But when in reverse gear, downbeat or negative sentiments can hold back spending, restricting activities and stifling growth. For an economy seeking to revive itself, be it India...

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What is behind the GDP growth falling to 5% -Radhika Merwin

-The Hindu Business Line Apart from slowdown in manufacturing and construction, the steep decline in consumption is a big cause for worry Even as the Centre’s big bank mergers detracted the attention briefly from the much-awaited GDP growth numbers for the April-June quarter, the sharp slowdown drew the market’s attention back to the immediate issue at hand. The Central Statics Office (CSO) revealing that the real GDP growth in Q1 of the...

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Dip in tractor sales indicate further deepening of rural distress

In the financial year 2017-18 when tractor sales touched new heights, it was said by many of the NDA (viz. National Democratic Alliance) government supporters that rural demand has revived on account of adequate monsoon rainfall and higher minimum support prices for crops. Many economists and newspaper columnists also denied the existence of any rural distress. An alternative perspective, however, was also presented by rural economists like Dr. Himanshu who teaches...

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