NABARD presented a gift to the nation on August 16, 2018, when it released results of its NABARD All India…
Speaking at the 37th foundation day celebrations of NABARD, the union finance minister, Arun Jaitley, gave a good food for…
Rather tHan MSP, for better prices getting the markets right by overhauling the agri-marketing infrastructure and associated laws presents a…
The e-nam platform only caters to 7% of the Indian farmer population, and handles only about 2% of the total…
The PMFBY involves farmers, banks, state and central government, insurance companies and re-insurers.
From Plate to Plough: In the last four years, agri-profitability fell rather than increased; and FCI paraphernalia expanded and deepened…
The inherent ‘consumer-bias’ in these policies makes trading environment unstable and unpredictable.
Take bold decisions like restricting subsidies on food, mgnrega, etc, to less than 25% and increasing investment in the sector…
But important thing to note in OF was that it was driven largely by small holders, and AMUL model ensured…
Budget 2018: Finance minister Arun Jaitley tried to redress the farmers’ woes by announcing that the minimum support price (MSP)…
Budget 2018: Farm distress is likely to be one of the major focal points of the Union Budget 2018-19, as…
The first advance estimates of GDP and Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices for various sectors for the year…
The party now rules 19 states, either on its own or as a dominant NDA-partner. More than two-thirds of Indians…
In November 2017, prices of most of the major kharif crops crashed below their respective minimum support prices (MSPs), triggering…
The new minister for commerce and industry, Suresh Prabhu, expressed his resolve to expand exports at the occasion of his…
We have been great admirers of the ‘agrarian miracle’ that Gujarat achieved under the leadership of Narendra Modi (NaMo), when…
Last month, NITI Aayog released its three-year action agenda (TYAA) for the government as a road map for reforming various…
Even after 70 years of Independence, the marketing system for agri-products remains unsupportive of farmers. They can’t discover and realise…
