-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: The monsoon has started withdrawing after delivering near-normal rainfall across the country, setting the stage for a bumper harvest after two years of scanty rain that hit farm output and distressed villagers. "This year the southwest monsoon has overall been good, with most states getting excess to normal rainfall and only few having deficit rains. It is good news for Farmers. I am sure we will have record...
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Food India wastes can feed all of Bihar for a year, shows govt study -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times India is growing more food but also wasting up to 67 million tonne of it every year, a government study shows. That’s more than the national output of countries such as Britain. And enough food for Bihar, one of India’s larger states, for a whole year. The value of the food lost – Rs 92,000 crore -- is nearly two-thirds of what it costs the government to feed 600 million...
More »Farm-loan waiver: A political masterstroke, but economically not prudent -Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Amit Agnihotri & Archis Mohan
-Business Standard The efficacy of farm debt waivers is ambiguous, but it has proved to be a potent potent weapon in the run-up to elections With elections round the corner in agrarian states of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, his party’s Punjab chief ministerial candidate Amarinder Singh and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal are trying to woo Farmers of the two states with promises of farm...
More »The Liquid Alternative: The ultimate antidote to Farmers' debt woes - dairying -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Again, going by NSSO data, while 11.9 per cent of an average Indian agricultural household’s monthly income comes from “farming of animals”, it is well over 24 per cent for Gujarat. Gujarat has a relatively low per agricultural household debt of Rs 38,100, as against the all-India average of Rs 47,000, according to the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO) data for 2012-13. Also, 79.2 per cent of the state’s...
More »A quiet revolution in farm mechanization -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Madhya Pradesh is leading the way in setting up custom hiring centres, which rent out machinery to small Farmers and employ rural youth to manage them Bhopal/ New Delhi: The frown on the face of Shakti Singh Tomar belies his recent successes. A 44-year-old farmer from Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh, Tomar proudly says he purchased a Mahindra Bolero SUV in 2014 by paying Rs. 8.1 lakh in cash. “Unlike others, I...
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