-The Tribune In Sirsa, private players are buying cotton at up to Rs 9,700 per quintal whereas the government has fixed the MSP at Rs 5,925 Sirsa: The low cotton yield this season due to excessive rain and pink bollworm attack has resulted in the crop selling at over 60 per cent higher than the minimum support price (MSP). In Sirsa, private players are buying cotton at up to Rs 9,700 per...
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What the Budget can do to support farming, in five charts -Arjun Srinivas
-Livemint.com/ HowIndiaLives.com Even as it presses for market reforms in Agriculture, the Centre has been actively using the basket of schemes wholly funded by it to widen the social security net for farmers. Expect that to continue in the coming Budget In 2016, the BJP-led government set itself the target to double farmers’ incomes by 2022. An inter-ministerial committee set up to recommend strategies to meet this target highlighted seven sources of...
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हाल की मीडिया रिपोर्ट्स यह बताती हैं कि आगामी उत्तर प्रदेश विधानसभा चुनाव से पहले उत्तर प्रदेश के बुंदेलखंड क्षेत्र को लगभग रु. 6,300 करोड़ की परियोजनाओं की घोषणाएं की गई हैं, जिनमें झांसी में टैंक रोधी मिसाइलों के प्रणोदन प्रणाली के लिए 400 करोड़ रुपये का संयंत्र भी शामिल है. 18 नवंबर, 2021 को झांसी नोड (उत्तर प्रदेश रक्षा औद्योगिक गलियारे से संबंधित) में पहली परियोजना के लिए नींव...
More »Reforms should make farming sustainable -Devinder Sharma
-The Tribune In India, there is a concerted campaign to discredit the arhtiya, building the case for bringing in agri-business companies. There is certainly a need to regulate the middlemen, but the American experience shows how the consolidation of the meat industry, leading to market concentration in the hands of a few companies, is making it difficult for livestock farmers to survive. WHILE Indian policy makers and economists haven’t drawn any lessons...
More »See Sonar Bangla shine and leave behind India, Pakistan on economic & social indices -Mani Shankar Aiyar
-The Telegraph With a per capita income at a whopping $2554, poverty is down; exports are up and GDP is fueled by both Agriculture and manufacturing; but the downside is a growing nexus between politics and business There is justifiable pride all around at Bangladesh’s remarkable performance in both the economic and social development dimensions. “Pakistan and India don’t matter. We have done better than both!” The figures speak for themselves. The renowned...
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