-Huffington Post Across the globe, 805 million people are struggling with hunger. But that figure could be significantly reduced if female Farmers just had the same rights as their male counterparts. Now that more men in rural areas are taking jobs in cities, about half of all Farmers are women who produce more than half the world's food, according to World Watch. Yet, despite their increasing roles, women Farmers are often deprived...
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NC Saxena, former member of the Planning Commission and National Advisory Council, speaks to Kanika Datta
-Business Standard NC Saxena, former member of the Planning Commission and National Advisory Council has been critical of the land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement Act. He tells Kanika Datta why things are unlikely to improve with the amendments recently passed by the Lok Sabha. Edited excerpts: * You were critical of the LARR Act but less so of the ordinance. Why? Let me clarify. The 2013 Act was anti-Farmer and anti-industry. The ordinance...
More »New solar-powered pump promises to end Farmers' irrigation woes
-PTI Vadodara: The Farmers in the country can do away with their dependence on conventional forms of energy for operating pumps to water their fields as a private company has come up with a solar-energy operated pump, which will also reduce environment pollution. ABB India has developed a solar-powered water pump for irrigating crops with rural India facing problems in the supply of electricity and availability of diesel for operating gensets. "ABB solar...
More »135 Farmer suicide cases in 58 days from Aurangabad division in Maharashtra
-PTI Maharashtra has reported 135 cases of Farmers' suicide in the Aurangabad division during a short period of the first 58 days in 2015 due to successive natural calamities and scarcity situation. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Agriculture Mohanbhai Kundaria also said: "In the last three years i.e. 2012, 2013 and 2014, there were 662 cases of Farmers' suicide which were eligible for compensation of...
More »Case for proper crop insurance scheme -Devinder Sharma
-Deccan Herald Make new entrants provide 40 per cent risk coverage to the farming sector on a household basis. Unseasonal rains and strong winds that lashed the entire north-western region have done immense damage to the standing crops. The Union Ministry of Agriculture has estimated damage to standing crops in 50 lakh hectares in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. Coming after an extended...
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