Will budget 2019 turn the farming tide?
The Indian downturn is underscored by a more-than-expected slump in agriculture exports and farmgate prices, lagging food-processing and poor human resources.
The Indian downturn is underscored by a more-than-expected slump in agriculture exports and farmgate prices, lagging food-processing and poor human resources.
Farmers are easily distracted from livelihood issues while the bureaucracy goes for half-baked solutions, driving India into a precarious future.
It is time for professional politicians and armchair experts talking big money to step aside and for experts to manage the farm sector
Since the grandiose announcement in 2016 of doubling farmers’ incomes, the real incomes of farmers have fallen. What can the budget offer in 2019?
Frustration on the farms has reached an inflexion point and all of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promises could actually go against him.
Evaluating the consequences of the centre’s agriculture policy is as im-portant as keeping the Prime Minister informed when things are going wrong.
The MSP hike is unlikely to stem the rural unrest that is gnawing into the ruling alliance’s vote-bank.
Meticulous planning is needed to address the crop residue burning but policy-makers neither understand the cause not the redressal mechanism.
The politics of the country has ignored farmers and it is time for them to change the politics of the country to extricate themselves from the state of utter hopelessness
Finally, a budget that promises to help the policy-battered farm sector though not all issues are addressed.