State Times

Organic agriculture emphasizes the use of management practices in preference to the use of of farm inputs taking into account that regional conditions require locally adapted systems. This is accomplished by using wherever possible agronomic, biological and mechanical methods as compared to using synthetic materials to fulfill any specific function within the system.

The Indian Express

Even as political parties are going all out to woo the farming community by announcing loan waivers, Dr O P Yadav, agriculture scientist and director of CAZRI (Central Arid Zone Research Institute), Jodhpur, feels this is a “negative approach” and would not be sustainable in the long run. He said farmers should be paid remunerative price of their crop not such loan waivers.

Business Standard

Union minister Nitin Gadkari Saturday said the country needs “good” leadership and appropriate policies to become a strong economic power but also made it clear that he was “not talking politically”.