We need to first convince people in rural Areas about vaccination, and simultaneously upgrade the health infrastructure, especially primary health…
National leadership has to have a war-room, comprising top medical experts, corporate leaders, logistics players, etc, to deliver at the…
Experts from Israel, a global leader on water management, say that till India breaks away from free power for agriculture,…
Expenditure on agri-R&D needs to be doubled or even tripled in next three years
Agri-food policies should be demand-driven, protect sustainability and efficiency in production, and give consumers more choice on nutritious food
The govt can give in writing that the MSP system and the APMC markets will continue and allow farmers to…
If Punjab farmers want to increase their incomes significantly, they need to gradually move away from MSP-based Paddy & Wheat…
The Centre could Devolve its spending on PDS, MSP Procurement, MGNREGA, & Fertiliser subsidy to the states through a formula…
Its new farm Bills to nullify the central farm-reform laws mirror Indira Gandhi’s failed attempt at govt takeover of wholesale…
Do we want agri growth that is also financially sustainable, or the mess that we have in rice, wheat, and…
The farm Bills promise farmers the freedom to sell wherever, and to whomever, they please. This corrects the restrictive trade…
By Ashok Gulati and Ritika Juneja BOUNTIFUL RAINS AND news of tractor-sales shooting up by 38.5% in the month of…
Agriculture Infrastructure Fund: Another major step in the right direction to get agri-markets right
The bottom line is that India needs to not only spatially integrate its agri-markets (one nation, one market), but also…
A major rationalisation of subsidies can finance development of eastern India as well as reinforcing of defence in the wake…
The govt should rethink its stand on seed-tech industry and on domestic urea production. encouraging the private sector led to…
At $10 bn, edible oil Import account for the largest portion of India’s Agri-Import bill. If the Modi govt wants…
While liquidating FCI’s Execss stocks could give the govt `100,000 crore, PDS reforms could free up another Rs 50,000 crore
The latest reforms are a significant step forward, but shifting to DBT for food & Fertiliser subsidies may do more…
