-Livemint.com How increased mechanization, volatile prices and stressed farm incomes are leading to a consolidation of agricultural land in Punjab Patiala/Sangrur/New Delhi: A Farmer selling his farm equipment is a telltale sign of distress. But Maghar Singh doesn’t regret doing it. Six years ago, he sold his tractor, harvester and other equipment, and rented out his 8 acres (3.2 hectares) of land in Patiala in south-eastern Punjab where he used to...
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Why Two Weather Forecasters Differ on Their Prediction for the Monsoons This Year -Atul Dev
-CaravanMagazine.in “If I see clouds forming in the sky, the first question that comes to my head is whether I have forecasted it,” BP Yadav, head of the weather forecasting division at the India Meteorological Department (IMD), told me when I met him on 25 April. Yadav’s office, on the second floor of the IMD building that overlooks the Lodhi Gardens in Delhi, is equipped with three LCD monitors that present...
More »Death of Small-Farmer Dairies amidst India's Dairy Boom -Sagari R Ramdas
-Economic and Political Weekly Amul has begun to do to the informal dairy sector what the European Union threatened to do to the Indian dairy sector: dump milk and milk products, capture the market and then drive down procurement prices as well. India's dairy sector increasingly shows signs of corporatisation with foreign fi rms and venture funds investing in cooperatives and then building chains with forward and backward linkages. The cooperative...
More »From plate to plough: Padyatras, politics, policies -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express Rahul Gandhi will help Farmers more if he focuses on how policies are implemented On April 30, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi undertook a padyatra of about 15 km in the Vidarbha region to register his sympathy and concerns for Farmers. Vidarbha has been reeling under agrarian distress for many years, and has also been an epicentre of Farmer suicides. Cotton being one of the primary crops of this...
More »Indian agriculture at cross roads: MS Swaminathan
-ANI Chennai: Indian agriculture is at the cross roads, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, father of India's first Green Revolution, has warned. Lamenting on the state of Indian Farmers, especially Farmers with small land-holdings, Dr. Swaminathan said, "The market economy certainly is not friendly to small Farmers. WTO regulations are also hindrance. Even in the United States which is the heartland of the free market economy, Farmers are insulated from market shocks through heavy...
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