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Corporate giants like Adani can partner marginal farmers for wealth creation by promoting solar generation on agricultural land
Apart from problems with nomenclature and weights, GHI’s assessment of the undernourished population is on shaky grounds,
With climate-change portents for agriculture in the business-as-usual mode, we must invest in innovation and policies to beat climate effects
PDS issue prices must be fixed at half of the MSPs, cover limited to the bottom 30%
Need a perfect orchestra of many policy tools; on the agri-front, revise weights of food & beverages in CPI
Saving the planet, and livelihoods Premium Story
The science of precision farming can give us “more from less”
Agriculture in the amrit kaal Premium Story
We need a five-dimensional focus for our food systems, and work on raising farm income
Population and prosperity: Govt must focus on women’s education and health to control population growth Premium Story
Each country looks for the prosperity of its people and follows policies that suit it most for a speedier road…
From plate to plough: For edible oil atmanirbharta Premium Story
Small-holders joining the palm oil mission will need support over the gestation period.
Reaping lower inflation: Strengthening agriculture can help tame prices of certain commodities Premium Story
The second front on which heavy lifting is needed is setting of prudent fiscal policy by the mandarins of the…
War poses uncertainties for the global wheat supply-line, As both Ukraine and Russia are major suppliers. India must reform procurement…
IF FCI were to unload its excess Grain stocks, it could bring food inflation down. but its high economic costs…
If the government wants more bang for its buck, It must double, or even treble, the amount spent on agri-R&D…
Pushing the northern states’ farmers away from rice and incentivising solar power generation as an ‘alternative crop’ can help clean…
The net result of the move is likely to be a slowing down of economic reforms that are desperately needed…
India’s public grain management system of procurement, stocking and distributing, is perhaps the largest food programme in the world. It…
One will have to wait for its blueprint to see how it plans to take the country forward. However, experience…
Compared with the Manmohan Singh-led govt, the Modi-led govt seems to have priotised welfare, most visible in Swachh Bharat, MGNREGA,…
