The Telegraph

Agriculture must be integral to reform and planning in order to make a significant dent in poverty and malnutrition as well as to ensure food security in the long run. In reality, while the Indian economy has been growing at over 7 per cent annually, growth in agriculture has been dismal – around 2 per cent in the last 10 years. This is in sharp contrast to the average annual growth rate of more than 4 per cent during the 1980s and early 1990s. Agricultural growth slipped from 3.9 per cent per annum during 1981-91 to 2.8 per cent during 1991-2001. These developments have adversely affected small and marginal farmers. The crisis is reflected through the rise ...

The Pioneer

Former Union Minister and Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, Hukmdev Narayan Yadav stressed on utilising the modern agricultural science and technology for refinement, modification and upgradation of farmers’ traditional knowledge, skill and experience.

The Hans India

According to the report submitted by Agriculture Expenditure and Cost Commission (AE&CC) Chairman Acharya Vijaya Gopala Sharma at South Indian States Regional Conference (SISRC) recently in New Delhi, farmer has to spend Rs 27,000 to cultivate in 1 acre following skyrocketing prices of seeds, power tariff, fertilizers, pesticides, and cost of labour charges.

Money control

Despite several support schemes provided by the Indian government, why is it that Indian farmers get poor returns? A report by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) suggests that implicit taxing of farmers and heavy subsidizing for consumers give negative results to farmers in India.

The Tribune

Set up by Adani Green Energy Limited more than a year ago, Punjab’s largest solar power plant of 100 MW at Sardargarh village in Bathinda is turning out to be a game changer not only for the state that has a challenging task of meeting its future energy needs, but also for its farmers who have given their land on lease for the project.

Financial Express

Given the overarching food security concern of 1.32 billion people in India, the country’s policymakers have a challenging task. On the one hand they need to incentivise farmers to produce more and raise their productivity in a sustainable manner, and on the other, they need to ensure that consumers have access to food at affordable prices, especially those belong to the vulnerable sections. In order to find a fine balance between these twin objectives, India has followed myriad policies that impact both producers and consumers.

Financial Express

With the overarching concern for food security of 1.32 billion people, India’s policymakers have a challenging task. On one hand, they need to incentivise farmers to produce more, raising their productivity in a sustainable manner, and on the other, they need to ensure that consumers have access to food at affordable prices, especially the vulnerable sections. In order to find a fine balance between these twin objectives, India has followed myriad policies that impact both producers and consumers. These policy instruments range from domestic marketing regulations (for example, APMC Act, Essential Commodities Act (ECA)), budgetary policies (such as input subsidies), trade policies (such as minimum export prices (MEP) or outright export bans, tariff duties), to food subsidies ...

The Economic Times 

After the MSP hike last week, the Narendra Modi government is getting set to appease farmers with yet another reform. And this will be via a new procurement policy which attempts to eliminate the middle man, senior officials from farm ministry exclusively told ET NOW.