1 Dec, 2014
Fevered farmlands
The Indian farmer is in a bind; facing an unfolding nightmare with the fall of commodity prices in India and fertiliser selling at black market rates.
1 Oct, 2014
A voice for the farmer
People support independent voices, in this case, the Farmers’ Forum, now 24 issues old. Yet they go to any length to thwart independence if it is contrary to their views
5 Sep, 2014
Law of infinite indifference?
Farm sector policies have not incentivised self-sustainability but have forced farmers on a path where they survive on doles. Will things change under a new government?
12 Aug, 2014
Populism does not pay
The budget has a host of announcements that are vague and numbers that are unconvincing at a time the farm sector needs financial injection and fiscal inclusion.
1 Jul, 2014
Essential common-sense deficit
As in the past, in its bid to pre-empt higher food inflation, the establishment has misread the signals and generated a crisis of lower prices for the farmers.
14 Jun, 2014
Check profiteers, liberate farms
Mandi middlemen, street vendors, shopkeepers and profiteers, if unchecked, will shatter the dream of millions who elected a new government to tame persistent inflation.
5 Jun, 2014
Waiting for the green shoots
The illusion that “good days are coming” will not last long if the current regime opts for a free-fall towards a free market economy rather than structured liberalisation.
1 Jun, 2014
The government-governed gap
The illusion the “good days are coming” will not last long if the current regime opts for a free-fall towards a free market economy rather than structured liberalisation.
1 Apr, 2014
Rescuing agriculture from regime of apathy
Correct weather advisory, occasional consultations, professional soil testing and some understanding of issues from the farming perspective is all that the farmer wants.
1 Apr, 2014
Time to plough a new path
Will there be a farmer representative on the new avatar of the Planning Commission and not a farm economist who is good with figures but has never ever felt the pain of being a farmer?
