Telangana urges Centre to link MGNREGA to agriculture
Hyderabad : With the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) creating shortage of farm labourers, Telangana on Friday urged the Centre to link […]
Agriculture
What Needs To Change In Our Agricultural Policies To Stop Farmer Suicides
Posted by Aniruddh Shrivastava New Delhi : In 2016, the Union Sports Ministry passed a resolution to transfer sports from the State List to the Concurrent […]
Possible El Nino unlikely to impact food prices in India
By Hitisha Jain New Delhi : Weather forecaster India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted that India will witness normal monsoon this year. It said […]
Farm loan write-offs win votes in India, but may hurt economy
India risks straining public finances and undermining already ailing state banks, economists said, after a $5.6 billion loan write-off for farmers in Uttar Pradesh and […]
Sowing The Seeds Of Change For Digital Farming
The 2011 Census says there are 118.9 million cultivators across India or 24.6% of the total workforce of over 481 million. With such a large […]
Sustanable development goals and Indian agriculture
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were the world’s time bound and quantified targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions. There were eight MDGs. […]
Agri reforms soon to augment farm income
NEW DELHI: The agriculture ministry in consultation with the Niti Aayog has identified a set of nine marketing reforms to ensure remunerative prices to farmers […]
Rural migration and employment opportunities
Rural India represents around 70 per cent of the Indian population. It is very important to engage the rural youth in a productive way in […]
All you wanted to know about farm loan waivers
The UP government’s waiver of farmer loans, dramatic protests by Tamil Nadu farmers in Delhi and a warning from the RBI Governor against loan waivers […]
Indian, Australian PMs launch world’s most advanced nanobiotechnology research centre in India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull inaugurated the world’s most advanced nanobiotechnology research centre, a joint venture between The Energy and […]