Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Enhancing agri-productivityedit
As India sets sail towards its vision of a developed nation by 2047, it stands on the cusp of comprehending, reassessing, and charting a road map to grow at 8-9% for the next three decades. This requires a focus on improving the key competitiveness fundamentals, i.e. labour mobilisation and labour productivity. India must enhance both to achieve upper middle-income status.
Paddy in India
Economics of Punjab’s paddy varieties: case of banned Pusa-44 and the promoted PR-126edit
As Punjab grapples with a severe groundwater crisis, there are calls for diversification away from water-guzzling crops — especially paddy, which saw a record 32 lakh hectares (lh) under cultivation last year. Agriculture scientists and economists believe that the paddy area in the state needs to be brought down by at least 10 lh.