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Artificially low inflation has hurt farmers, solution lies in balancing consumer-farmer interestsedit
In 1986 or 1987, I was young and foolish,and single, which means I was always looking for love. I was in my favourite bar in Bandra one night, drinking a Rosa rum and coke, when, rather surprisingly, two African women walked in and sat at a booth some ways behind me. One of them was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life.
Delhi farmers may get more as minimum support priceedit
“Even after working hard day and night, farmers are economically weak,” development minister Gopal Rai said on Monday. He pointed out that the UPA government had failed to implement the Swaminathan committee report on farmers and the NDA government had also ignored it. And farmers are committing suicides due to bad agriculture policies, he added. Besides implementing the recommendation on MSP, the government will also discuss other suggestions in the conference, the minister sa
Telangana Revolutionising Agriculture Sector Through ITedit
The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation has automated the process of application of license. In fact, the entire departmental process has been made online. Digital signing of licenses has also been enabled, says C Parthasarathy, Principal Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of Telangana, in conversation with Sudheer Goutham of Elets News Network (ENN).
India fields Ramesh Chand for top post at UN’s Food Agriculture Organisationedit
After laying low for nearly five decades at agri-related international platforms, India has decided to field a candidate for leadership position at the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation or FAO. PMO officials confirmed that India has nominated Ramesh Chand, member of the NITI Aayog and the Finance Commission, for the job.
FM Piyush Goyal discusses steps to promote lending to MSME, agriculture sectorsedit
The government on Monday asked state-run banks to step up their support to meet the lending needs of India’s growing economy, with finance minister Piyush Goyal saying the focus areas would be loans to housing and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
Budget
Budget and farm distress: Budget 2019 should be a balancing actedit
Budget 2019 is just few days away, and as expected, farmers and people having interest in the agriculture sector are eagerly hoping to hear some good news. Measures to boost the already troubled agriculture sector are likely to get top priority across the spectrum in view of the sensitivity of Indian agriculture in the political economy. Debates and discussions around issues relating to farm distress throughout the country have heightened the expectations manifold.
Budget 2019: This Village Shows All That Is Wrong With India’s Agriculture Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/union-budget-2019/budget-2019-this-village-shows-all-that-is-wrong-with-indias-agriculture Copyright © BloombergQuintedit
He had borrowed Rs 5 lakh from banks and loan sharks to buy a cow and lease land for a small farm the size of football field in Karnataka’s Chikkade village, a three-hour drive southwest of India’s IT city of Bengaluru. There was almost no crop for two years as there was hardly any water in the local dam, his wife Parvathi said. “I tried to help by stitching clothes, but we weren’t able to repay,”
Budget Expectations 2019: ‘Agriculture Needs Massive Investment’edit
Indian agriculture needs serious attention as majority of population is dependent on agriculture for their livelihood, says Dr Pramod Joshi, Director-South Asia at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) ahead of the interim Budget on 1 February.
Data analysis: Agriculture spending doubled during Modi’s term, but farmers are still in distressedit
In a year of already failing rain and declarations of impending drought, government data on the crisis-ridden agriculture sector that sustains more than 600 million Indians – or half the population – appears to reveal ever-increasing spending.
Stubble Burning
How foul air makes our life miserableedit
That was the first reaction of almost everyone I met on a vacation in the southern hill town of Madikeri, Karnataka. It is almost as if the national capital conjures up just this one vision: of people in masks walking under a smog-laden sky, quite like the spectacle of Beijing’s ‘airpocalypse’.