-Down to Earth Jean Dreze argues that we should not leave the making of an equitable society to experts alone What does one make of the shameful statistic that over 200 million Indians still subsist below the poverty line? How does one square it with the equally obscene distinction that we have the world’s fourth largest number of billionaires, thus making India the second most unequal nation after Russia? Indeed, how...
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Milk output rises 19% in 2014-17
-PTI New Delhi: India’s milk production rose by 19 per cent in the last three years to touch 163.6 million tonnes, leading to a significant increase in dairy Farmers’ income, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said today. Addressing a function on the National Milk Day, he said the government has launched many programmes in the last three years to raise dairy sector’s productivity. The minister announced that a National Action Plan Vision-2022 would...
More »Madhya Pradesh's new scheme to protect Farmers against fall of crop prices stumbles at the start -Mridula Chari
-Scroll.in Halfway through the ambitious Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana, Farmers are protesting and accusing traders of suppressing prices. When the Madhya Pradesh government introduced the Bhuvantar Bhugtan Yojana in August it hoped the new scheme would assuage angry Farmers and provide them a cushion against a possible price crash of farm produce. But in the first harvest season after the scheme was introduced Farmers continue to get prices below their expectations. Many Farmers...
More »Vidarbha Farmers in debt trap: Here is how to save them -Vivian Fernandes
-The Financial Express How can the cotton and soybean Farmers of Vidarbha and Marathwada supplement their incomes so they can get out of the trap of debt and self-engineered death? That was the theme of Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s ninth edition, four-day agricultural exhibition at Nagpur, called Agrovision, to which I was invited. A promising beginning has been made. In October last year, the National Dairy Development Board commenced operations. It...
More »Ploughing a lonely furrow -Devinder Sharma
-DNA India is expected to bear the brunt of $160 billion trade-distorting farm subsidies provided by developed nations like the US At a time when angry farmer protests seeking an increase in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all crops is on an upswing, India faces an uphill task to protect its food procurement operations at the forthcoming Buenos Aires Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from December 10-13. At...
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