Pamper bureaucrats; Impoverish farmers
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?
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.
Farmer interests are ill served by the fake erudition of questionable academics and farmer representatives, who do not farm. Suicides are a natural corollary of the policy mess
Vested interests, including global food giants, constantly influence Indian farm policy, which is like getting GM seed manufacturers to frame food-labelling guidelines.
Indian agriculture cannot be jump-started without plant variety research, a developed food processing industry, inter-ministerial coordination and favourable trade agreements.