-Down to Earth Srihari kurade proudly walks through his orchard of kokum (Garciniaindica), a wild fruit that is famous for its therapeutic properties. With more than 2,400 trees spread over seven hectares (ha) of land, his orchard in South Goa is the world’s largest kokum plantation. Kurade is also perhaps the only Farmer in the region to have taken up systematic large-scale plantation of the fruit that is endemic to the...
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This is how the Indian government reduced farm suicides in the country in a year India -Steffy Thevar
-TheNewsMinute.com From 2013 to 2014, Farmer suicides in India have halved, but Farmers’ groups and activists are not rejoicing. Severely criticizing the government, they say that the authorities have merely come up with disingenuous categories which are designed to move the deaths from the columns that record Farmers’ suicides to ones that rule them out. In its Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report for 2014, the National Crime Records Bureau’s said...
More »Why caste census findings need to be taken to Nairobi, via Geneva - Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com A simple but powerful case can be made that here is a comprehensive census which shows that the Indian Farmer is entrenched in deep poverty The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman thinks about the next generation, said 19th century American author James Freeman Clarke. Reactions to the recently released Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) only reaffirms this. Earlier...
More »PM relents, may agree to amend Land Bill -Puja Mehra & Smita Gupta
-The Hindu To help break the impasse on the Bill, the Cabinet decided on adding a provision to enable the States to frame and pass their own laws. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, deliberated on Tuesday a proposal to amend the Land Bill to give flexibility to the States to frame their own laws for land acquisition, a demand various Chief Ministers aired at the July 15 meeting...
More »Decoding Karnataka debt trap: Rise of a new breed of private moneylenders -Sowmya Aji
-The Economic Times MANDYA: A new breed of moneylenders has pushed Farmers of moneyed Mandya district in Karnataka into an endless debt trap, leading to mounting suicides, even as the institutionalised credit system has failed them. The system is so well entrenched that the borrowers themselves are taking steps to protect the moneylenders from a government crackdown on the practice. Farmers — big, small and marginal — have taken loans from private...
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