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27 Jan, 2026
Business Standard
Budget 2026 – Learning more from Failure than from Success
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19 Jan, 2026
Mint
Budget 2026 ritual rather than remedy
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24 Dec, 2025
Business Standard
The Battle of Narnaul: Re-examining the 1857 rebellion and selective memory
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23 Dec, 2025
The Tribune
Charan Singh and the politics of agrarian power
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01 Nov, 2025
Economic Times
Our Fate Rests on Plates
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28 Aug, 2025
Indian Express
India USA Trade Deal
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11 Aug, 2025
Economic Times
MUDDLING THROUGH – AGRICULTURAL POLICY
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21 Mar, 2025
Economic Times
Pay Commission Maths Doesn’t Work
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10 Jan, 2025
Peruvanam international village festival
Panjkosi Chronicles: How green was the revolution
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07 Jan, 2025
Business Standard
Pre-Budget 2025 suggestions for the FM
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22 Nov, 2024
Indian Express
Government can only harvest what it sows.
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05 Nov, 2024
The Tribune
Corruption & Incompetence Paddy Procurement
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12 Jul, 2024
Indian Express
Note for the Union Ministry of Agriculture
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04 Jun, 2024
Indian Express
Farming our way through Amrit Kaal
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16 Apr, 2024
Agrowon
कायदेशीर आधारभूत किंमत फायद्यापेक्षा नुकसान करेल
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02 Apr, 2024
Indian Express
Building consensus on Legally-guaranteed MSP
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21 Mar, 2024
Ajit
ਕੀ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ ਕਿਸਾਨਾਂ ਲਈ ਸਮਰਥਨ ਮੁੱਲ ਦੀ ਕਾਨੂੰਨੀ ਗਾਰੰਟੀ ਲਾਭਦਾਇਕ ਰਹੇਗੀ?
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20 Dec, 2023
Indian Express
Paddy Menace in Punjab
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29 Sep, 2023
Economic Times
A tribute; Dr. M S Swaminathan
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30 Aug, 2023
Indian Express
Issues of Outsourcing “Thinking”
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02 Feb, 2023
Indian Express
Budget 2023
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01 Oct, 2022
Indian Express
Pesticides
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20 Jul, 2022
Indian Express
Agriculture Panel Under Cloud
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02 Jul, 2022
Indian Express
Climate Change: Our worst nightmare is yet to appear in our dreams.
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15 May, 2022
Economic Times
Export Ban of Wheat: Decoded
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03 Feb, 2022
Indian Express
The Seeds not planted
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17 Jan, 2022
The Tribune
Complexity of Crop Diversification in Punjab
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23 Nov, 2021
Indian Express
Repeal of Three Farm Laws
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16 Jul, 2021
Rural Voice
ई-रिटेल और ई-कॉमर्स का बाज़ार पर दबदबे की सामाजिक कीमत
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15 Jul, 2021
Farmers' Forum
Farmer and the E business
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13 Jul, 2021
The Tribune
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਚ ਲਾਗਤ ਈ ਪ੍ਰਚੂਨ ਅਤੇ ਈ ਕਾਮਰਸ ਨੂੰ ਸਮਝੋ
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10 Jul, 2021
Project Syndicate
Power Structure in Food Systems
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09 Jul, 2021
Rural Voice
खाद्य प्रणाली में ताकत का असंतुलन
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02 Jul, 2021
The Economic Intelligence Unit
To Balance Food Systems
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05 Jun, 2021
Indian Express
Monopolistic e-retailers on the prowl
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22 May, 2021
Rural Voice
खाद्य प्रणाली में संतुलन
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03 Feb, 2021
Indian Express
Budget Doldrums?
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12 Jan, 2021
Indian Express
Desperately seeking honor
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22 Oct, 2020
Indian Express
Politicking over farm bills
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09 Sep, 2020
Indian Express
Farmers funding schemes to serve them
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22 Jul, 2020
Indian Express
From food security to nutritional self-reliance
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18 Jun, 2020
Indian Express
Farm Sector – Hasty ordinances; hurtful impact
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06 May, 2020
Economic Times
Indian bureaucracy: Neither responsible nor wise
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24 Apr, 2020
Indian Express
India flounders as bureaucracy bloats
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28 Mar, 2020
Indian Express
Harvesting Uncertainties – Small stimulus; fevered farms
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24 Jan, 2020
Indian Express
Diffusing a crisis: time for collaborative conversation
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13 Dec, 2019
Indian Express
Enhancing the agenda for farm sector advocacy
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01 Dec, 2019
Farmers' Forum
Time for a new paradigm for farm sector advocacy
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01 Oct, 2019
Farmers' Forum
Thwarting climate change impact through policy innovation
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25 Sep, 2019
Indian Express
Changing the climate for sustainability dialogue
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02 Jul, 2019
Indian Express
Will budget 2019 turn the farming tide?
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11 Jun, 2019
Indian Express
Half-baked solutions sully farming space
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01 Jun, 2019
Farmers' Forum
Dropping the ploughshare on one’s feet
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22 Apr, 2019
Indian Express
The danger of silver bullets
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02 Feb, 2019
Indian Express
Budget 2019 and scepticism in the countryside
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01 Feb, 2019
Farmers' Forum
Ballot sans hope
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26 Dec, 2018
The Hindu Business Line
FACE TO FACE – Right policies; effective follow up
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17 Dec, 2018
Outlook
Harvesting a cruel joke
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12 Dec, 2018
Indian Express
The cost of deceiving farmers
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21 Sep, 2018
The Wire
Dhaka diary – Between the traffic and the Politics
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20 Sep, 2018
Indian Express
Who will tell the PM?
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20 Jul, 2018
Indian Express
The false MSP hope
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14 Jul, 2018
The Tribune
Framing the ‘least bad’ policy option
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20 Apr, 2018
Indian Express
The residue crisis
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17 Mar, 2018
Indian Express
Marching against apathy
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02 Feb, 2018
Indian Express
Union Budget 2010: green shoots of hope
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23 Jan, 2018
Indian Express
Potato Portents
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04 Jan, 2018
Indian Express
When the law is a pest
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21 Nov, 2017
Indian Express
Folly over one-size-fits-all farm policy
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07 Nov, 2017
India Today
Salam Chaudhary Saheb – The contrarian farmer who became Prime Minister
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07 Nov, 2017
The Print
Support, not stick, needed for stubble burners
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01 Oct, 2017
Farmers' Forum
A farm policy made for failure
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08 Aug, 2017
Indian Express
Neither wise counsel nor relevant research
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01 Aug, 2017
Farmers' Forum
Lessons from the failed farming classroom
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20 Jun, 2017
Indian Express
Nothing ‘political’ about farm suicides
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01 Jun, 2017
Farmers' Forum
Bharatiya kisan ko gussa kyon aata hai?
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01 Apr, 2017
Farmers' Forum
Fertilising farm sector woes
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31 Mar, 2017
Indian Express
Between the DBT lines
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11 Mar, 2017
Economic Times
Congress trips outsider AAP
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01 Feb, 2017
Farmers' Forum
Insecure minds; misdirected policies
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23 Dec, 2016
The Quint
Demonetisation pangs on Kisan Diwas
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17 Nov, 2016
Economic Times
Demonetisation to sink co-op banks and farmers?
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01 Oct, 2016
Farmers' Forum
Squinted lens for cost: benefit analysis
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30 Sep, 2016
Economic Times
Towards an alternative manifesto
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19 Aug, 2016
Economic Times
Whither farm sector consultations?
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01 Aug, 2016
Farmers' Forum
Double or quits
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18 Jun, 2016
Economic Times
Six years; double income
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16 Jun, 2016
Economic Times
Farmer as the anti-inflation instrument
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01 Jun, 2016
Farmers' Forum
Another bitter harvest
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01 Apr, 2016
Business Standard
The ‘double’ trouble
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03 Mar, 2016
Indian Express
The book-keeper’s budget
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21 Feb, 2016
Farmers' Forum
Not consulting for change
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28 Jan, 2016
Indian Express
Ghost of the ship-to-mouth era
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24 Dec, 2015
Indian Express
State of the subsidy
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23 Dec, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Kisan Diwas but whither farmer power?
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01 Dec, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Plutocrat versus the ploughman
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27 Nov, 2015
Business Standard
Ajay Vir Jakhar lunches with Business Standard By Kanika Datta
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24 Nov, 2015
Economic Times
Pamper bureaucrats; Impoverish farmers
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20 Nov, 2015
Indian Express
Fending off the WTO offensive
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28 Oct, 2015
Indian Express
Breadbasket to basket case
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11 Oct, 2015
Indian Express
Prediction predicament
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01 Oct, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Farmer’s night without end
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24 Sep, 2015
The Quint
Fudged farm data; flawed goals
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28 Aug, 2015
Economic Times
Regressive restrictions
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01 Aug, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Killer data; enfeebled farmer
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31 Jul, 2015
Indian Express
Reviving the farmer agenda
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29 Jul, 2015
Open Magazine
A harvest missed
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21 Jul, 2015
The Times of India
A kisan policy for farmers?
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01 Jun, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Farmer forgives; nation forgets
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23 May, 2015
Indian Express
Deepening furrows
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21 May, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Fine print on farm policy
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24 Apr, 2015
The Quint
El Nino drives the guessing game
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16 Apr, 2015
Indian Express
Time to listen to the farmer
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01 Apr, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Colonising via Land Acquisition?
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23 Mar, 2015
The Quint
Land acquisition agonies
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20 Mar, 2015
The Quint
Ranting politicians; restless farmers
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16 Mar, 2015
Financial Express
Credit sans credibility
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11 Mar, 2015
Indian Express
Welcome half measures
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10 Feb, 2015
Indian Express
BKS strategy for farm rejuvenation
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05 Feb, 2015
India Today
Faulty prescriptions; diseased farms
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01 Feb, 2015
Farmers' Forum
Giving farmer strategies a chance
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01 Dec, 2014
Financial Express
Farmers deserve the right to choose
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01 Dec, 2014
Farmers' Forum
Fevered farmlands
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01 Oct, 2014
Farmers' Forum
A voice for the farmer
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05 Sep, 2014
India Today
Law of infinite indifference?
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12 Aug, 2014
Business Standard
Populism does not pay
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01 Jul, 2014
Farmers' Forum
Essential common-sense deficit
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14 Jun, 2014
Economic Times
Check profiteers, liberate farms
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05 Jun, 2014
Business Standard
Waiting for the green shoots
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01 Jun, 2014
Farmers' Forum
The government-governed gap
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01 Apr, 2014
Farmers' Forum
Rescuing agriculture from regime of apathy
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01 Apr, 2014
Farmers' Forum
Time to plough a new path
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01 Feb, 2014
Farmers' Forum
Building a climate for change
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01 Dec, 2013
Farmers' Forum
Popular politics; poor policies
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27 Nov, 2013
Farmers' Forum
Increasing India’s R&D yield
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21 Nov, 2013
Farmers' Forum
Missing links in the food chain
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01 Oct, 2013
Farmers' Forum
Disincentivising the farmer
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01 Sep, 2013
Farmers' Forum
Out of credit
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01 Nov, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Elitist ignorance and farm truths
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01 Sep, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Unity in biodiversity
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01 Sep, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Price of ignoring farmer wisdom
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01 Jul, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Power of ‘native’ intelligence
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01 May, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Perverse politics; endangered farmer
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16 Mar, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Budget to hide, misguide
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08 Jan, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Harvesting neglect
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01 Jan, 2012
Farmers' Forum
Time for remunerative agriculture?
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31 Aug, 2011
Farmers' Forum
The farmer-FDI future
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07 Jul, 2011
Farmers' Forum
Grey policy; black and white impact
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01 Jul, 2011
Farmers' Forum
A culture misunderstood: agriculture
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01 May, 2011
Farmers' Forum
Anatomy of food inflation
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07 Apr, 2011
Farmers' Forum
Organising for a constructive role
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01 Mar, 2011
Farmers' Forum
Words versus deeds
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01 Jan, 2011
Farmers' Forum
Of lives and livestock
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01 Nov, 2010
Farmers' Forum
India’s fertiliser curse
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01 Sep, 2010
Farmers' Forum
Going against the grain
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