-Economic and Political Weekly This study reports on a survey of 4,881 users of more than 4,100 works created under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Maharashtra. It provides evidence that MGNREGA works support Agriculture, and benefit a large number of small and marginal farmers. An overwhelming 90% of the respondents considered the works very useful or somewhat useful, while only 8% felt they were useless. Further, most...
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India’s unfinished agricultural and rural revolution -Uma Lele
-The Financial Express The BJP's resounding Lok Sabha victory after years of policy paralysis raised a widely-shared hope that the government, led by PM Narendra Modi, will put India back on track by resuming inclusive growth. And that Agriculture and rural development would be at the centre of the agenda. Half the employment still comes from Agriculture, though it contributes just 14% to the GDP. India contains the largest number of...
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-Livemint.com A national task force on Agriculture will recommend ways to reinvigorate Agriculture, strategies for reforms New Delhi: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has formed a task force to suggest ways to boost Agriculture, demonstrating its commitment to farmers in a year when rural incomes have been hit by freak weather and a slump in the prices of key crops. The task force, under the aegis of NITI Aayog, the successor...
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-PTI NEW DELHI: Aimed at boosting the farm output, the government is looking at measures such as modernisation of farming practices and introduction of latest technologies to increase the production of crops, Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh said today. "... Agriculture remains central to India's economy... Livelihood of a large number of farming families is linked to Agriculture. Government is keen to usher in modern techniques in the Agriculture sector," Singh said...
More »Land acquisition: First, sow the seeds of security among farmers -Abhijit Banerjee
-Hindustan Times Many years ago, Jagdish Bhagwati, a very distinguished economist long before he became one of the patron saints of the NDA, published an important paper on what he called Directly Unproductive Activities or DUP. These bore a close relation to what his friend and well-known South Asia scholar, Anne Krueger, had called rent-seeking activities in some slightly earlier work. Both made the important point that the social cost of...
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