Today, India spends roughly 0.7% of agri-GDP on agri-R&D and extension together. This needs to double in the next 5…
If PM Modi can do this shift from price policy to income policy, and reform the current agri-marketing system, it…
Apart from talk of doubling farmers’ income and higher MSPs, the BJP had promised fast-track action on 99 irrigation projects…
Farmers, who were promised a much better deal in the 2014 BJP manifesto, feel they have been taken for a…
If India achieves a 4-5% growth in agri-GDP on a sustainable basis, it would need to export aggressively lest it…
Can any political party promise in its manifesto that, in the next 5 years, India will RANK among the 50…
Despite last ditch attempts by election-minded political parties to atone for farmers’ losses, these are not a substitute for the…
The schemes for cow protection and fisheries are steps in the right direction, but they don’t solve the farmers’ current…
Until India structurally reforms its agri-economy, a stable income policy for farmers is required, for at least the next five…
MSPs or loan-waivers cannot reach more than 20-30% of peasantry and distort the market much more than direct income support…
The marginal farmers, who constitute 68.5% of peasantry, actually take more than half of their loans from informal sources at…
Professional bodies like CACP suggesting hiking msp to 1.5 times a2+fl costs or others touting doubling-of-farm-income without examining their practicality…
Raising the rate of growth of farmers’ incomes from 3.6% to almost 13% by 2022-23 is akin to promising them…
Cost ratios are highly inflated to justify starting several projects and hardly any ex-post analysis is done to see whether…
Grain production plummeted from 89.4 million metric tonnes (MMT) in 1964-65 to 72.4 MMT in 1965-66. India became heavily dependent…
While recently releasing the book, Supporting Indian Farms the Smart Way by Ashok Gulati, Marco Ferroni and Yuan Zhou, Arun…
Forcing traders to buy agri-produce at MSP will leave farmers in the lurch as traders may not be there to…
From fully delicensing dairy Production And Significant PDS reforms to Allowing BT Cotton, the Farm sector saw many significant steps…
