Direct Transfers: Learnings from Telangana’s Rythu Bandhu and Odisha’s KALIA
A list of beneficiaries that excludes the better-off farmers and includes the vulnerable ones is the right foundation
Farm distress: MSP, loan waivers vs direct income support
MSPs or loan-waivers cannot reach more than 20-30% of peasantry and distort the market much more than direct income support policies
Maharashtra’s MSP diktat sets the stage for chaos, will leave farmers in the lurch
Forcing traders to buy agri-produce at MSP will leave farmers in the lurch as traders may not be there to buy and the state certainly can’t buy all the produce.
How doubling farm income just got even tougher
NABARD presented a gift to the nation on August 16, 2018, when it released results of its NABARD All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS). Among other things, the Survey estimates 2015-16 farmers’ income levels.
Under Modi, agriculture is just trudging along
Rather tHan MSP, for better prices getting the markets right by overhauling the agri-marketing infrastructure and associated laws presents a better solution.
Creating a national agriculture market
The e-nam platform only caters to 7% of the Indian farmer population, and handles only about 2% of the total value of agricultural output of the country
Reading Modi government’s agri-performance right
From Plate to Plough: In the last four years, agri-profitability fell rather than increased; and FCI paraphernalia expanded and deepened rather than getting reformed and shrinking
Why doubling farmers’ income by 2022 is a pipe dream
Take bold decisions like restricting subsidies on food, mgnrega, etc, to less than 25% and increasing investment in the sector to 75%.
With caution on food inflation
Assured procurement and trade liberalisation could help keep pulses, sugar and vegetable prices down
Transforming India’s agri-food landscape
It must work on a Brown Revolution to incentivise precision agriculture. This will save precious water, reduce fertiliser usage, maintain soil fertility and make agriculture not only sustainable, but also productive
Narendra Modi’s doubling farm income ‘dream’ suffers from faulty vision
Sadly, for all these concerted official efforts, there are ambiguities surrounding the dream itself. As professional economists, we feel compelled to state the challenges as explicitly as possible.
Column: Animal power, RNF to power PM Narendra Modi vision?
As the Narendra Modi-led government completed two years in office, almost each of its arms issued hordes of advertisements celebrating achievements and delineating policies and programmes that were transforming India.
Column: Doubling farmers’ income by 2022
For the last two months, the Narendra Modi-led government seems to be in an overdrive to appease farmers. Several farmer rallies have been organised in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and recently at New Del
From Plate to Plough: No finger on the pulses
Govt exposes its poor pulses-price management strategy with raids on traders, paltry imports
Column: Losing the pulse
A 1960s-style policy response to control the price of pulses will not work, and instead, be anti-farmer
Column: From Plate to Plough – The dal-bhat conundrum
Crop-neutral incentive structures are the need of the hour
From Plate to Plough: The dal-bhat conundrum
Crop-neutral incentive structures are the need of the hour
Narendra Modi govt’s challenge: Urgency for agri-reforms mounting amid drought warnings
With warnings of a drought this year, the urgency for agri-reforms is mounting.
Drought scare: ‘Farm sector should be high on govt’s agenda’
Poor rains forecast for 2015 could flatline the sector’s growth, already hit by untimely rains and last year’s drought
Column: Tackling below-normal monsoon
Prepare a contingency plan with ample supply of seeds, technology-powered crop insurance and easy credit
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