-The Hindu Business Line Technology is transforming Indian agriculture and increasing output. This is good news, given that India may need to produce 90 million tonnes of foodgrain annually by 2030 to feed its growing population, says Vishwanath Kulkarni Jitendra, a prosperous farmer from Machrauli in Haryana, had barely hired a combine to harvest wheat on his 10-acre plot when clouds started building up. The weather office had predicted rains over the...
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New leader, old challenge -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth India's first PM born after Independence will face the old problem of poverty eradication India may have its first post-Independence-born prime minister this June. But what difference would it make in terms of the country's development agenda? How will the new prime minister face the challenges that have been there since before Independence? Or, what are the developmental challenges the new prime minister may find difficult to address? Arguably,...
More »Kerala-based Prabhal Mohandas is making the best of tech to sell ‘matta rice’ -Jubin Mehta
-YourStory.com Prabhal Mohandas was born and brought up in Kerala with a rich family history in agriculture. He, however, went on to pursue higher education and did his engineering as well as an MBA. He spent a good decade with the likes of HSBC and Reliance and then got the urge to come back to his roots to start an enterprise around agriculture. Belonging to the technology age, Prabhal realized the...
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-The Financial Express MGNREGS fails to deliver on even its own targets Given how less than a tenth of households applying for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have ended up getting the guaranteed 100 days of workin FY14-the figure was 14.5% in FY09-it is obvious the scheme is failing under even its own stated goals. At a time when both economic Growth and jobs creation is...
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-The Financial Express In what could be a big question mark on the world's largest jobs scheme. In what could be a big question mark on the world's largest jobs scheme, the number of people who availed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) fell 8.4% year-on-year in 2013-14, reports Raj Kumar Ray in New Delhi. Also, only a tenth of the people enrolled got the promised 100 days of...
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