Gates Foundation sharpens focus on increasing income of Indian farmers
With an intention to help improve the income of Indian farmers, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will now sharpen focus on this area. The […]
Agriculture
130 Chinese agricultural traders evince interest in India
Over 130 traders of agricultural products from China met Indian business representatives and have evinced interest in doing business here. In a seminar held at […]
Supporting livelihood restoration in coastal areas
Introduction Hundreds of coastal villages in Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapada, Bhadrak and Balasore districts in Odisha have been displaced numerous times and have faced cyclone, […]
Tax on farm income should be limited to growers’ with large land holdings: Study
Exemptions granted on agri income and subsidies provided by the Centre and states are being cornered by big farmers and corporates. The Comptroller and auditor […]
NITI Aayog launches the first ever Agricultural Marketing & Farm Friendly Reforms Index. Maharashtra ranks first
The low levels of productivity, growth and incomes ailing the farm sector in India and causing immense agrarian distress is well known. Without undertaking radical […]
ICT use to boost PNG’s Agriculture sector
If you have made an urgent phone call to your family or sent a simple text message to a friend, then you have taken part […]
50 yrs on, Punjab leads agri charts, Haryana catching up
Food security of the nation continues to be in the hands of Punjab that contributes the maximum share of wheat to the central pool but […]
Expanding irrigated agriculture in India will need more groundwater
India is one of the world’s largest food producers, producing enough to support most of its 1.2 billion people and to export $39 billion of […]
Farm unemployment: The way out
Agriculture represents the primary sector of the Indian economy providing employment to about 51% of the total population with 14-15 per cent contribution to the […]
e-NAM & the dream of ‘One Nation One Market’
The e-National Agriculture Market (e-NAM), touted as the ‘turning point’ of India’s Agriculture sector, was launched by PM Modi in April this year. The e-NAM […]