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June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Exploitation

BJP Ministers Insensitive to Plight of Farmers

During last four years of Modi government rule, in spite of long sustainable movement, the government continues to be unmoved. Thousands of subsistence level farmers and peasants committed suicide,...

May 31, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Only Big Farmers Benefit from Write-Offs

Last year, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Punjab undertook large-scale farm debt waivers, costing half a percent of the entire GDP of India, and Andhra Pradesh recently announced a loan...

May 16, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Industry

Bitter Cup of Woes of the Sugar Industry

The moot issue is whether the latest support would help mills, burdened as they were with payment arrears of a humongous Rs. 13,899 crore to the growers as on...

May 3, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Agriculture Needs to be Freed from Shackles

Even as India successfully ended by degrees the despicable licence-cum-permit raj after the advent of industrial and trade policy reforms way back in 1991, the concurrent improvement on the...

May 2, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Farm Crisis: Solution Lies in Raising Farm Income, Technology-Driven Smart Agriculture

Where we have gone wrong and why is it agrarian crisis keeps recurring in India. The answer is simple: Despite big strides in farming, India is yet to develop...

April 5, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Poverty Eradication Plans only Target Vote Banks: Antyodaya – Rural Livelihood Programme not in Mission Mode

Out of 716 districts, DAY-NRLM is being implemented only in 586, and the total number of blocks covered is only 4,459 out of about 6,000. Nevertheless, a recent propaganda...

March 28, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy, Trade

GI Registry Needs to be Broad-based: Exclusion of MP from Basmati Cultivation Intriguing

The Chennai-based Geographical Indications (GI) Registry’s order in mid-March to exclude Madhya Pradesh from the area officially declared for the cultivation of the aromatic and widely consumed basmati rice,...

February 28, 2018
Kanchan Ghimire
Agriculture, Environment

Wastewater Management: Using Sewerage Water for Agriculture

Kanchan tells us how sewerage water can be treated to make manure and irrigate the farms by making a small plant at a corner of the field. It will...

February 24, 2018
IPA Service
Agriculture, Economy

Policy Experiments May Sabotage Food Self-Sufficiency

The keenness of the BJP-led government runs contrary to its party’s pledge of ‘flourishing agriculture’ taken in its 2014 election manifesto, as well as the government’s own emphasis on...

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