-The Hindu Business Line Farmers across Uttar Pradesh and Punjab lament weather woes and lack of social security Consumers may be bracing themselves for rising prices of vegetables and fruits, but the unseasonal heavy showers and hailstorms through the first half of March have already dealt a significant blow to Farmers across much of the northern, central and western belts. Agriculture Ministry estimates earlier this week showed that Rabi crops in about 181...
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MGNREGA Works and Their Impacts: A Study of Maharashtra -Krushna Ranaware, Upasak Das, Ashwini Kulkarni, and Sudha Narayanan
-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...
More »NDA seeks framework to revive agriculture -Sayantan Bera
-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...
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...
More »Homegrown veggies keep village women healthy -Snehlata Shrivastav
-The Times of India NAGPUR: Almost 50% of women in Borgaon Gondi, a tribal village in Wardha district, are anaemic. This is not because of poverty or non-availability of nutritious food. Most Farmers in the village own 2-5 acres land except a few who own above 50 acres. It is sheer ignorance about what to eat and the general neglect of women and children that are the main causes. However, there is...
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