-The Hindu Business Line This brings higher returns; govt must spend more on R&D, roads: ICRIER paper New Delhi: Spending on agricultural research and development, including extension services, is at least 10 times more effective in reducing poverty than spending on fertiliser or power subsidies, an ongoing study has shown. Spending ?10 lakh on agricultural R&D can help lift 328 people out of poverty, whereas allocating the same for fertiliser or power subsidies...
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This Farmer Grew 100 Tonnes of 20-Foot Tall Sugarcane in One Acre! Here's How! -Manabi Katoch
-TheBetterIndia.com Appaso Kabade, a farmer from Karandwadi village in the Sangli district of Maharashtra, owned 30 acres of ancestral land. As a local sugar mill was giving a reasonable price for sugarcane, he started growing the crop. He was able to grow about 25 to 30 tonnes of sugarcane per acre, but his dream was to reach up to 100 tonnes from the land, but it remained unfulfilled. Suresh took to farming...
More »A job crisis, in figures -Radhicka Kapoor
-The Indian Express Multiple data sets confirm sluggish pace of employment creation. Paucity of data can no longer be an excuse for the lack of debate. Jobs are an integral part of India’s political narrative today. This is unsurprising because the NDA came to power on the promise of creating a large number of jobs for India’s rapidly rising work force. However, much of the debate on employment performance over the last...
More »Meet India's FIRst and only licensed fisherwoman, KC?Rekha -Ramesh Babu
-Hindustan Times KC Rekha may have become a fisherwoman out of necessity, but she’s come to love her profession, despite the odds and uncertainty, despite her life being as complex as the tangled net in her vessel. Thrissur (Kerala): KC Rekha, a 45-year-old mother of four sits alone on an isolated beach of a Kerala fishing village at the crack of dawn, untangling a mess of nylon fishing nets on which her family’s...
More »Rural workers of Jharkhand demand their rights
-Right to Food Jharkhand Ranchi (Jharkhand): Close to 1,000 NREGA workers and other rural labourers converged to Birsa Chowk from 12 districts of Jharkhand today and sat on dharna to protest against repeated attacks on their right to food and right to work. The event was jointly organised by Right to Food Campaign Jharkhand and NREGA Watch. The dharna was prompted by a series of recent starvation deaths in Jharkhand. The...
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