Assured procurement and trade liberalisation could help keep pulses, sugar and vegetable prices down
It must work on a Brown Revolution to incentivise precision agriculture. This will save precious water, reduce fertiliser usage, maintain…
While the pulses-MSPs are much below market rates, stocking caps and export bans are regressive steps
Sadly, for all these concerted official efforts, there are ambiguities surrounding the dream itself. As professional economists, we feel compelled…
India must clean up the institutional mess created by APMC Act and Essential Commodities Act
This July marks the silver jubilee of India’s economic reforms, ushered in in 1991. It is time to take stock…
As the Narendra Modi-led government completed two years in office, almost each of its arms issued hordes of advertisements celebrating…
India can reach its solar power goal and farm income target if fields are tapped to generate solar power
The monsoon failure may not be in the hands of the government but better irrigation and water management certainly is
What is the water picture in the country? India has almost 18% of the global population but only 4% of…
Maharashtra’s Latur district, of late, has become a symbol of acute water scarcity. Several jal doots (water trains) had to…
Now is the time to make bold moves and put money in farmers’ accounts and let markets do the rest
For the last two months, the Narendra Modi-led government seems to be in an overdrive to appease farmers. Several farmer…
One introduced Bt cotton which benefited farmers, the other may unwittingly end the Bt revolution
The budget proves a disappointment in its lack of bold moves to rationalise the food and fertiliser subsidies
The govt needs to tackle water-intensive crops’ export and fertiliser subsidy leakages instead of hoping for La Nina
It is not just growth per se, it is the nature of growth that matters a lot for wiping out…
Scrap the interest subvention scheme for the farm sector—lest it explodes as a scam—and adopt crop insurance.
