-LiveMint.com Panel suggests floor price for foodgrain at a 10% premium to costs; safety net to kick in if prices fall below MSP New Delhi: In what could restore the terms of trade in favour of Agriculture, a government panel has recommended a new cost-linked minimum support price (MSP) and a safety net for farmers. The recommended MSP, or the floor price for foodgrain, will be at a 10% premium to costs,...
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Linking farming to market won’t help -Sucha Singh Gill
-Tribune India Policy shift towards market-oriented management will hit marginal farmers hard There is unfolding of the policy of the NDA government towards Agriculture. Contrary to election speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government has kept quiet about the Swaminathan Commission report about fixing the MSP of agricultural commodities at cost plus 50 per cent. At the same time, the government has given indication towards reduced FCI operations. It has been...
More »CAG rips into famed Gujarat growth model
-The Times of India GANDHINAGAR: The Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) of India report tabled in the state assembly on Tuesday raised several question marks on the much-famed Gujarat Model. The report tore apart the tall claims of the state government led by former chief minister Narendra Modi on agricultural growth, social indicators and spent on social infrastructure, fiscal discipline, right to education, and law and order situation. The report observed that Gujarat's...
More »Precision Agriculture Could Start A Green Revolution In India -Dr. Anil K Rajvanshi
-Huffington Post Bhau Kadam (name changed) is a small sugarcane farmer in western Maharashtra. He and his family own about 3 hectares of land. Kadam has two sons who are both graduates and work in Pune. When I asked him why he did not make his sons farmers, he said that farming is hard work, is non-remunerative and it is difficult to get labour. Besides he also thinks that a...
More »What the states got right -Dhanmanjiri Sathe
-The Indian Express The pace of land acquisition, which has been taking place in India since Independence, increased after liberalisation. In more cases than not, it has been successful, that is, both buyer and seller have been satisfied with the outcome. But today, land acquisition is being portrayed as next to impossible. This perception is not based on reality and needs to be changed. The farmer is wrongly being portrayed as...
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