-Press Release from Centre for Budget Analysis (CBGA) and Jan Awaaz New Delhi, 29 November 2014: There have been a number of media reports recently around possible cuts in Union Budget allocations for the current fiscal 2014-15 in case of social sector programmes, i.e. reductions in allocations in the Revised Estimates (RE) for 2014-15 as compared to the Budget Estimates (BE) that were made in July this year. This issue deserves...
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New law of the land: Compost or perish -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line Two young women's organic business helps small farmers salvage their soil and livelihood Kolkata schoolmates Avantika Jalan and Rashmi Sarkar run Mana Organics, a social enterprise that helps small farmers improve soil fertility through chemical-free methods and navigate the country's complex food supply chain. Organic produce from its two projects in Tinsukia, Assam, and three villages in Madhya Pradesh are sold in New Delhi and Kolkata. Early days Registered as...
More »Left alone to tend farm and family: reaching female farmers in rural India -Caspar van Vark
-The Guardian Men are setting off to find work in cities, and women are being left holding the sickle - how can we help them? "I can see the strain when I go back to the farms," says Palagummi Sainath. "Women have always done the bulk of work in agriculture, but post-2008, things have changed. There's been a male exodus, and the roles that men were doing in agriculture are now...
More »Creative approach: Hand-held projector comes in handy for illiterate ryots -R Avadhani
-The Hindu SADASHIVAPET (MEDAK DISTRICT, Telengana): DRDA teams up with Digital Green, an organisation supporting technology, to spread the word on innovative practices being followed by farmers. As the project is supported by battery and video can be played even on a wall, farmers are viewing these videos even in late hours. What can be done with a hand-held projector? Spreading new and innovative systems in farming with semi-literate and illiterate persons...
More »80% of grants for finding solutions to improve agricultural yield spent in US, UK, Europe -Kounteya Sinha
-The Times of India LONDON: Majority of the $3 billion spent by the world's leading philanthropic organization - the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on finding solutions around improved agricultural yield to benefit the world's poorest and hungry people, has been spent in the US, Britain and other rich developed nations. Grain, a research group based in Barcelona said on Tuesday that over 80% of the grants were given to organizations in...
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