-TheBetterIndia.com Here’s how Farmers of Uttarakhand are following a traditional method of farming called Baranaja (or twelve grains) to sustain their crops even in harsh climatic conditions. When Farmers in distress are given tempting offers to use chemicals that can give them bumper crops, many Farmers fall prey to such offers. But these are the Farmers of Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. They have been following their traditional method of rain fed...
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Farmers get little by way of help -Sayantan Bera & Elizabeth Roche
-Livemint.com With India staring at the prospect of a poor monsoon, benign neglect of the agricultural sector continues to the present regime even as rural distress is peaking, warn analysts New Delhi: The signs were there as early as a year ago. When Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister, India was staring at the prospect of poor rains. The 12% deficit in monsoon sparked a drought that parched major farming...
More »A year of rural misery -Hiimanshu
-Livemint.com The BJP, which rode to power on the aspirations of rural youth and Farmers, faces one of its toughest challenges from the same electorate The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came to power in the 16th general election by winning a sizeable number of seats in states with a predominantly rural population. These states—Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh—not only accounted for more than...
More »Environment: Ecological suicide -Ashish Kothari
-The Hindu The growth-at-all-cost mantra has left a vast majority of people impoverished. If the first year of the BJP government is any indication, its five-year stint may turn out to be the worst period for India’s environment and ecosystem-dependent people since the 1980s. This is saying a lot, given that none of the previous governments has been particularly sensitive to issues of fresh air and water, productive soil, healthy forests and grasslands....
More »The Deepening Furrows -Ajay Jakhar
-The Indian Express Poorly designed policies are largely to blame for farm distress Successive governments have transformed an unevenly prosperous rural society to one which is evenly distressed. Small and marginal Farmers now feel worse off than the landless. Most suicides have taken place in the families of such Farmers, especially those with no source of non-farm income. For the sense of desperation that now pervades rural India, all political parties are...
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