Kisan Diwas but whither farmer power?
On Kisan Diwas, the thinking farmer rues the absence of towering farmer leaders like Charan Singh as the farm sector sinks deeper into a crisis.
On Kisan Diwas, the thinking farmer rues the absence of towering farmer leaders like Charan Singh as the farm sector sinks deeper into a crisis.
Paying the plutocrats and impoverishing the farmer is the name of the government’s game with a ₹1,00,000 crore largesse going the bureaucracy’s way.
“Show me any farmer in any of the major national parties, who holds a senior position…” None; which explains the farm sector mess in India.
The Seventh Pay Commission recommends an additional annual benefit of Rs 1 lakh crore for salaried employees and pensioners. Where does it leave the hapless farmer?
India needs to weather the WTO storm with diligent data collection, research, documentation and superior negotiation skills.
A series of misadventures over trifurcation and a religious-political agenda followed by central and state governments have converted Punjab into a economic basket case
In order to be useful to the farmer, IMD predictions must be at the block level. Lack of accuracy and specificity render forecasts irrelevant for individual farmers.
It is time for the country to undergo a deep introspection into the causes of farmland suicides because they are not prompted by natural calamities but by a man-made malady.
Unhappiness on the farms is growing first because first wrong objectives were set and then there were intentional errors in measuring growth.
Export restrictions are a form of regressive taxation because they are imposed when domestic prices skyrocket but there is no concerted action when prices collapse.