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Author Archives: Ajay Vir Jakhar

HomeArticles Posted by Ajay Vir Jakhar
1 Feb, 2014
Ajay Vir JakharFebruary 1, 2014Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Building a climate for change

India ignores science when dealing with both climate change and food security/GM crops. The first needs a top-down approach and achieving food security needs a bottom-up approach.

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1 Dec, 2013
Ajay Vir JakharDecember 1, 2013Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Popular politics; poor policies

Poor understanding and co-ordination between different central ministries and a complacent attitude around WTO over the last decade has caused immense suffering for the farmer.

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27 Nov, 2013
Ajay Vir JakharNovember 27, 2013Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Increasing India’s R&D yield

Every rupee invested in agricultural R&D gives an eight-fold return to the rural economy and is the most cost-effective way to reduce poverty.

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21 Nov, 2013
Ajay Vir JakharNovember 21, 2013Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Missing links in the food chain

Higher retail prices for food do not translate into profits for farmers because of higher production costs and marketing bottlenecks and the misgovernance of trade.

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1 Oct, 2013
Ajay Vir JakharOctober 1, 2013Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Disincentivising the farmer

The global population of 7.2 billion by 2050 means that the world must produce as much food in the next 50 years as it did in the last 10,000 years and in the face of climate change.

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1 Sep, 2013
Ajay Vir JakharSeptember 1, 2013Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Out of credit

Credit remains a problem for small and marginal farmers. Advances with a credit limit of less than ₹2 lakh declined from 82.6 per cent in 1990 to 44.3 per cent in 2010 of the total.

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1 Nov, 2012
Ajay Vir JakharNovember 1, 2012Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Elitist ignorance and farm truths

The general perception is farmers will accept sub-standard levels of living and inferior quality of inputs because they accept some non-existent freebies.

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1 Sep, 2012
Ajay Vir JakharSeptember 1, 2012Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Unity in biodiversity

As far as agriculture is concerned, there is no option but to adopt practices that do not destroy biodiversity, can satisfy India’s needs and support sustainable practices.

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1 Sep, 2012
Ajay Vir JakharSeptember 1, 2012Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Price of ignoring farmer wisdom

It is time that farmers set the nation’s farming agenda, focused on genuine farming issues without letting manipulative politicians reap benefits from false promises

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1 Jul, 2012
Ajay Vir JakharJuly 1, 2012Farmers' Forum, Perspectives

Power of ‘native’ intelligence

A refusal to understand and learn from farmer experience has been the bane of Indian agriculture. So has the refusal to invest in Indian research and development.

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