Merging state and central income support schemes will make Rs 5 lakh crore available to extend basic income to poor…

India’s new Agri-marketing reforms could be the 1991-moment For agriculture, But they need supplementary action for optimal results

The states have done an exemplary job of ensuring availability of essential foods, and procuring wheat from farmers. focus must…

To bounce back from the pandemic quickly, India needs a stimulus package of at least 5% of GDP that focuses…

India must use the corona-crisis to reform the agri-marketing system by abolishing the APMC Act, promoting e-NAM, and allowing warehouses…

Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s ringside insight into India’s agri-policies shows, without reform on food subsidy and MSP, unlocking resources for growth…

Budget 2020 India: The budget must be transparent on, and fully account for the Food Subsidy dues to FCI. IF…

Reforming the country’s grain management system could save the govt Rs 50,000 crore annually, allowing the FM to fund infra…

Maharashtra’s farmers have been in the news quite often, and for the wrong reason: high incidence of farmers’ suicides.

To curb NCR air pollution from stubble burning, the govt should incentivise Punjab and Haryana farmers to switch from paddy…

The fertiliser prices, then, will be market-determined, ensuring their efficient usage, and stopping their diversion to non-agri uses as well…

The political stalwart also had a keen agri-sense, and understood that the highest pay-off from economic reforms is now to…

Calculations suggest that using ‘solar trees’ to generate solar power on farmers’ land is the only way to double farmers’…

The government re-started some almost dead plants (Gorakhpur, Ramgundam, etc) that produce urea at more than $400/tonne.

Lack of effective regulation and policy of cheap or free power supply for irrigation have intensified freshwater crisis beyond technological…

WIth Bt cotton, India gained about $67 bn in forex from extra exports of cotton & cotton yarn, and savings…