The Roots Of The Agrarian Distress In India
By CP Chandrasekhar It did not take the current round of farmers’ agitations to drive home the idea that India’s agrarian sector is under stress. Low […]
Agriculture
High GST on farm machinery to hit farmers
By Vijay C Roy Chandigarh : The high rate of GST on farm machinery, including threshers, rotavators, laser levellers etc and agriculture implements, is likely […]
Government hikes paddy MSP by Rs 80 per quintal, pulses by up to Rs 400 per quintal
New Delhi : The government has approved Rs 80 per quintal hike in paddy MSP, while support price of pulses has been raised by up […]
India’s worsening agrarian crisis demands a swift shift in policy
By Kadayam Subramanian The fatal shooting by police of five farmers during a protest June 6 in the Madhya Pradesh city of Mandsaur was a […]
Farm crisis: Why should Bharat have to feed India at its cost?
By Mohan Guruswamy New Delhi :  It was around the mid-1960s when the Paddock brothers, Paul and William, the “prophets of doom”, predicted that in another […]
Farming took root in India only 10,000 years ago, study finds
By Snehal Fernandes Mumbai : Farming came to India 10,000 years ago, and it was only much later that grains such as rice, wheat and millet — […]
Instead of farm loan waivers, invest more in agricultural infrastructure
By Himanshu The deaths of five farmers in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district has brought the crisis in agriculture centre stage. While the latest incident may have […]
Is India faced with a 3.1 lakh crore farm-loan waiver? And will it help?
New Delhi : As demands for farm-loan waivers grow across Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Karnataka — after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra […]
AgriTech In India: How Startups Are Changing The Face Of Indian Agriculture
New Delhi : India holds the record for the second-largest agricultural land in the world, with around 60% rural Indian households making their living from […]
Non-farm jobs on the rise in India: McKinsey report
New Delhi : In a new report on India’s labour market, the McKinsey Global Institute has focused on the concept of “gainful employment”, basically better […]