Showing posts with label Agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agriculture. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Farm challenges

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  The relationship between climate and agriculture is closely interconnected with worldwide processes. Even a minor alteration in climate ca...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics (UPAg)

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  The Indian government has introduced the Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics (UPAg), an online platform developed by the Ministry o...
Monday, March 06, 2023

Why India needs a Green Revolution 2.0

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  Varieties that can withstand extreme temperature and rainfall variations, while yielding more using less water and nutrients are the need ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

What are Primary Agricultural Credit Societies?

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  The Union Budget has announced Rs 2,516 crore for computerisation of 63,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) over the next fiv...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

PDS has had a spectacular run. That may not last

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  2020-21 was one of Indian agriculture’s finest moments, as memorable as 1967-68 that inaugurated the Green Revolution. While much of the c...
Monday, October 04, 2021

Revealing India’s actual farmer population

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  Harish Damodaran, Samridhi Agarwal write: It may be closer to 40 million than the consensus range of 100-150 million. This has great impli...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Challenges like climate change call for farm research to take centre stage, just like during the Green Revolution

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Agriculture and climate change are too important to be left only to generalist bureaucrats, economists and activists. Indian agriculture’s m...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Agriculture policy should target India’s actual farming population

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  How many farmers does India really have? The Agriculture Ministry’s last Input Survey for 2016-17 pegged the total operational holdings at...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Gucchi

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  The Jammu and Kashmir Government recently sought GI tag for Gucchi mushroom. The Gucchi mushrooms are highly expensive and are full of hea...
Friday, December 04, 2020

Why MSP is not a solution

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  A key debate after the enactment of three farm-reform laws and the subsequent protests is around the issue of federally-fixed minimum supp...
Tuesday, November 03, 2020

Managing flood of foodgrains is the nation’s problem today

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  Every mandi yard must have silos, automatic cleaning and weighing machine (that issues electronic receipt) and an elevator to store the gr...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Why Punjab’s farmers oppose the new farm laws

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  When the establishment ignores the historical context and the emotional component underlying any debate, mass protests can erupt to potent...