-The Hindu Business Line Opening up the dairy market to the US will place India at an economic disadvantage and hurt small farmers, businesses in the sector The upcoming visit of US President Donald Trump to India may see the contours of the Indo-US deal being finalised in specific sectors, which is also likely to INClude allowing for market access for US dairy products in India. This move is likely to have...
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NSO will not release report showing first decline in consumer expenditure in 40 years -Somesh Jha
-TheWire.in Consumer spending surveys help set the base year for key macroeconomic data, INCluding gross domestic product. New Delhi: More than a month after National Statistical Commission (NSC) chairman Bimal Kumar Roy said the official survey report showing a dip in consumer spending for the first time in over four decades would be made public, the autonomous data body decided against releasing the report. When asked why the NSC departed from its earlier...
More »Union Budget 2020-21: An expert's guide to rural distress -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has all the ingredients to deepen India’s farm crisis These are desperate times for India. Rural unemployment was at a 45-year-high while consumption expenditure of rural families fell 9 per cent between 2011-12 and 2017-18, according to a report by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), which the government never released but got leaked to the media in November 2019. Between 2011-12 and 2015-16, the INCome of farmers...
More »India: "History's longest ever e-curfew" continues in Kashmir
-Reporters without Borders Six months to the day after the Indian government blocked all communications in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir on 5 August, after revoking its autonomy, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reveals what it is like for journalists trying to work in this territory in the wake of the federal government’s recent measures, which have had little real impact. Kashmiris had few illusions. A week after the supreme court...
More »Organic farming: The food forest of Nayagarh -Satyasundar Barik
-The Hindu Among this year’s Padma Shri awardees are a father and daughter who turned a barren wasteland into a riot of trees and crops Furrowed with deep gullies, its topsoil all but gone, this degraded patch of land near Odagaon in Odisha’s Nayagarh district was once a dense forest. Whenever nature tried to reclaim it, the little shoots would be nibbled away by goats and sheep. The villagers who owned the...
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