20 Jul, 2018
The false MSP hope
The MSP hike is unlikely to stem the rural unrest that is gnawing into the ruling alliance’s vote-bank.
20 Apr, 2018
The residue crisis
Meticulous planning is needed to address the crop residue burning but policy-makers neither understand the cause not the redressal mechanism.
17 Mar, 2018
Marching against apathy
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
2 Feb, 2018
Union Budget 2010: green shoots of hope
Finally, a budget that promises to help the policy-battered farm sector though not all issues are addressed.
23 Jan, 2018
Potato Portents
The presumptive loss to 50 lakh potato farmers on a very conservative basis was ₹30,000 crore or ₹60,000 per potato farmer.
4 Jan, 2018
When the law is a pest
The solution to killer pesticides or to doubling farmer incomes is not limited to on-farm interventions. It stays concealed in the hallowed legislative hallways of a thoroughly compromised system.
21 Nov, 2017
Folly over one-size-fits-all farm policy
Farmers from across the country are out on Delhi’s streets agitating, as the government begins deliberations for the 2018 budget. It is time to seek solutions to the structural issues that plague the system.
8 Aug, 2017
Neither wise counsel nor relevant research
The Indian Council of Agriculture Research has long lost it sense of direction and even will to deliver magic in the Indian countryside.
20 Jun, 2017
Nothing ‘political’ about farm suicides
Using dressed up data and wrong farming economics, sycophants — in the guise of economists — are distorting the reality around the farm sector.
31 Mar, 2017
Between the DBT lines
The government’s grand vision for a ‘New India’ is at variance with its narrow economic policies; the DBT seems to be all about transferring benefits to the industry.
