The Hindu Business Line

2019 might be another farm-loan waiver year, but farmers in drought-affected Hiware Bazar village in Maharashtra, have a different plan in mind. They are not interested in the government’s loan waiver, but have resolved to develop their own marketing model this year to increase profits.

The Economic Times

With the general election a few months away, the central government has begun crunching the numbers in preparation for a comprehensive programme to help farmers tide over challenges posed by a dip in prices and dwindling incomes.

UNI

Punjab honoured as the second best state amongst states of north and north-east India, for extensive promotion and implementation of organic farming and bagged prestigious Jaivik India Award.

The Statesman

“The soul of India lives in its villages,” declared the Father of the Nation in the last century. Even today, more than 60 per cent of Indians live in villages. The significance of rural development in the over-all national development cannot be over-emphasized. The soul of rural India is in agriculture. It generates 17 to 18 per cent of our GDP. Agriculture is the source of livelihood for more than 50 per cent of our total work force. It supplies food to the nation and basic raw materials to agro-based industries. It earns valuable foreign exchange from agricultural exports. Farm income generates demand for industrial goods and contributes to domestic capital formation through savings out of farm income.

Mint

Palanpur is a relatively unknown small village in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh. However, it has a special place in development economics because of a research project that has stretched over seven decades. Economists have conducted seven detailed surveys of Palanpur since the 1950s, a rare longitudinal database that shows how the village has changed over three generations.