10 Feb, 2015
BKS strategy for farm rejuvenation
The Bharat Krishak Samaj advocated a list of small investments to smoothen the rough edges of farm policies, instead of grand gestures that amount to little.
5 Feb, 2015
Faulty prescriptions; diseased farms
Good intentions based on bad understanding aggravate an already challenging situation. Policy and implementation must be designed with more rigour than in the past.
1 Feb, 2015
Giving farmer strategies a chance
If the farmer viewpoints get incorporated into policies, a future where farm children are better off than the quagmire in which their forefathers live may well be possible.
1 Dec, 2014
Farmers deserve the right to choose
Preposterous suggestions that farmers are incapable of spending funds judiciously need to be dismissed and the farmer given the right to decide how to finance their farms.
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.
