12 Dec, 2018
The cost of deceiving farmers
Frustration on the farms has reached an inflexion point and all of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promises could actually go against him.
21 Sep, 2018
Dhaka diary – Between the traffic and the Politics
Despite the reigning chaos, social parameters, health and education indi-ces of Bangladesh are far better than those in India.
20 Sep, 2018
Who will tell the PM?
Evaluating the consequences of the centre’s agriculture policy is as im-portant as keeping the Prime Minister informed when things are going wrong.
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.
14 Jul, 2018
Framing the ‘least bad’ policy option
The farming infrastructure in Punjab lay in a shambles and the Punjab State Agriculture Commission considered all stakeholder opinions to prepare a policy document, which could be implemented.
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.
