Cultivating reform: 12 policy strategies for India's agricultural revival
6 months, 1 week ago

Cultivating reform: 12 policy strategies for India's agricultural revival

Hindustan Times  

Proposing multi-faceted policy interventions to address farmer discontent, this piece explores 12 policy strategies for enhancing agricultural income, sustainability, and resilience in India. Developing and Distributing Suitable Agricultural Implements Farm mechanisation tailored to the needs of small farmers can significantly enhance productivity and reduce physical strain. Collaborative Strategies for Revitalising India's Agricultural Sector Engaging agricultural economists, policy analysts, and farming stakeholders in constructive dialogue will provide nuanced insights into addressing farmer issues in Maharashtra, Punjab, and beyond. By prioritising inclusive, evidence-based policy interventions, the new government can effectively address the farmers' grievances and pave the way for a thriving, sustainable agricultural sector.

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President Murmu calls on scientists to deal with agriculture sector challenges
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2 weeks, 4 days ago

President Murmu calls on scientists to deal with agriculture sector challenges

The Hindu  

President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday called on agriculture scientists to develop and disseminate technologies in a timely manner to deal with natural disasters, adverse effects of climate change, and excessive exploitation of resources. “Agriculture is facing new challenges such as natural disasters, adverse effects of climate change, decreasing per capita farm size, and excessive exploitation of natural resources. We have …

Our land is speaking, are we listening?
3 weeks ago

Our land is speaking, are we listening?

Hindustan Times  

From the water we drink and food we eat to the air we breathe. Although technological advancements have led to increased food production even in the face of land degradation, continuous soil degradation threatens the furture of the world’s food self-sufficiency. Global initiatives, including the UNCCD COP16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia present a unique opportunity to deliver lasting impact, not …

Let science guide the shift to sustainable farming
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Let science guide the shift to sustainable farming

Hindustan Times  

Based on the science of the time, the Green Revolution brought food security to India. The ~ ₹2,500-crore National Mission on Natural Farming is in step with the government’s stated aim to improve soil health and reduce groundwater/irrigation dependence. The pressing need is for investment in agriculture research and the development of new technologies that can weed out the second-generation …

Courts can’t fix agriculture, problems are far too complex
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Courts can’t fix agriculture, problems are far too complex

Hindustan Times  

A Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by justice Nawab Singh has made broad-brush observations about India’s agrarian crisis and urged serious consideration of legal sanctity to minimum support prices for farmers. That India’s agrarian economy has been mired in a viability crisis — farmer suicides are its most macabre manifestation — isn’t unknown. But MSP alone can’t solve second-order problems of …

Sustainable Agriculture Practices Crucial to Combat Climate Change in Andhra Pradesh
2 months ago

Sustainable Agriculture Practices Crucial to Combat Climate Change in Andhra Pradesh

The Hindu  

Experts and researchers discussed the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture, with a particular focus on Andhra Pradesh. They called for stronger collaboration between academia, policymakers and farming communities to ensure the adoption of sustainable practices across the agricultural landscape of Andhra Pradesh and beyond.

Agriculture for a resilient future
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Agriculture for a resilient future

Hindustan Times  

The Union Budget 2024, presented by the government of India, is forward-looking and growth-oriented, prioritising the transformation of India’s agriculture industry as it laid out several strategic initiatives aimed at enhancing productivity, ensuring climate resilience, and fostering innovation in the agricultural sector. The budget emphasises developing vegetable production clusters near consumption centres and promoting farmer producer organisations, cooperatives, and startups …

India’s agri transformation a lesson for others: Modi
4 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s agri transformation a lesson for others: Modi

The Hindu  

Inaugurating the triennial conference organised by the International Association of Agricultural Economists here on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India’s experience is valuable for discussions on transforming the food system and is sure to benefit the Global South. The Prime Minister said from a newly independent nation facing challenges to ensure food security 65 years ago, India has now …

How agriculture curriculums are adapting to climate change and sustainability
7 months ago

How agriculture curriculums are adapting to climate change and sustainability

India Today  

Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy, supporting over 50% of the nation's workforce. However, the sector faces significant challenges due to climate change, which affects crop yields, water availability, and overall agricultural productivity. Its core missions are solar energy, energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, water conservation, and the Himalayan ecosystem Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana objective is to ensure …

Empowering Indian Dairy Farmers: A Vision for Sustainable Agriculture
7 months, 1 week ago

Empowering Indian Dairy Farmers: A Vision for Sustainable Agriculture

Deccan Chronicle  

Picture Source : by arrangement Milk production in India is dominated by small and marginal landholding farmers and landless labourers. To bolster these farmers and cultivate a robust dairy industry, a comprehensive approach is imperative, with both governmental and private sectors assuming pivotal roles. Private companies forge partnerships with farmers to establish on-farm processing facilities, enriching income streams and capturing …

Towards India’s next Green Revolution
1 year, 1 month ago

Towards India’s next Green Revolution

Hindustan Times  

India’s first Green Revolution was one of the most important events of the 20th century in terms of its mass impact on human welfare. India needs a second Green Revolution partly because what is already the world’s largest population is expected to grow by almost 250 million over the next 30 years. It also needs a second green revolution because …

What’s the next course?: Mridula Ramesh on the future of sustainable food
1 year, 2 months ago

What’s the next course?: Mridula Ramesh on the future of sustainable food

Hindustan Times  

What exactly is sustainable eating? Yet all of India’s coal plants — together — emit a sliver of global food waste emissions. India’s food waste alone, depending on which data set one considers, emits far more greenhouse gases than all the coal plants in South India put together. We waste food because we can afford to, underscoring again that India’s …

Disconnect in farm governance: Bridge gap for sustainable growth
1 year, 3 months ago

Disconnect in farm governance: Bridge gap for sustainable growth

Hindustan Times  

The prowess of Punjab’s agriculture has long been celebrated as a cornerstone of national food security. The lasting impact of the Green Revolution, pioneered by Punjab, Haryana, and Western Uttar Pradesh, continues to resonate through India’s agricultural landscape, a testament to its enduring success in eradicating hunger and freeing the nation from imposed food dependency. The prosperity that blossomed in …

India to seek agri solutions in G20
1 year, 6 months ago

India to seek agri solutions in G20

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar said that India was ready to work with G20 countries to find solutions to the challenges being faced in different sectors of agriculture. Addressing the media on the first day of the G20 agriculture ministers meeting here on Thursday, the minister exuded hope that India would find solutions to these challenges through deliberations …

Review of Distress in the Fields — Indian Agriculture after Liberalization: A broken harvest
1 year, 7 months ago

Review of Distress in the Fields — Indian Agriculture after Liberalization: A broken harvest

The Hindu  

Professor R. Ramakumar of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences has put together a useful volume on Indian agriculture by scholars in the field. The 16 essays in Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture after Liberalization, cover six comprehensive themes in 500 pages: Land and Agrarian Relations, Investment and Expenditure; Agricultural Trade; Costs, Profits and Incomes; Credit and Insurance; and …

Book Review: ‘Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture after Economic Liberalization’ edited by R Ramakumar
1 year, 10 months ago

Book Review: ‘Distress in the Fields: Indian Agriculture after Economic Liberalization’ edited by R Ramakumar

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 23, 2023 10:40 IST Distress in the Fields is an exhaustive account of the agricultural policies enforced in India after the 1991 economic reforms and the agrarian crisis that followed. “Economic reforms after 1991 explicitly rejected the need for institutional transformation in agriculture,” writes Prof. Ramakumar in the introductory chapter. Madhura Swaminathan delves into studying interpersonal inequalities …

Reiterating the need for eco-friendly agriculture in India
1 year, 10 months ago

Reiterating the need for eco-friendly agriculture in India

Hindustan Times  

Union Budget 2023 was referred to as the first budget of ‘Amrit Kaal’ by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, a term which was first used by the Prime Minister during the 75th Independence day celebrations. Further, the budget also outlined that the centre will assist the transition of one crore farmers to organic farming, reiterating the long-term vision of eco-friendly …

How can the government revive agricultural reforms?
2 years, 2 months ago

How can the government revive agricultural reforms?

Hindustan Times  

No one is a stranger to the swift method in which agricultural reforms of 2020 were brought out by the government. The first course correction would be holding stakeholder discussions with farmers, farmer representatives, government officials and even corporate functionaries collectively. Since the laws witnessed a large level of angst among the farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, …

Handling heatwave: Way ahead for Indian agriculture
2 years, 2 months ago

Handling heatwave: Way ahead for Indian agriculture

Firstpost  

India witnessed its hottest March in over a century, and the warming of the Indian Ocean and recurring El Nino events could lead to more and longer lasting heatwaves in the country This year, parts of the world have been caught in the grip of heatwaves and wildfires that have been sweeping across Europe and Asia. India witnessed its hottest …

Reimagining climate-resilient food systems in a post-pandemic world
2 years, 4 months ago

Reimagining climate-resilient food systems in a post-pandemic world

Hindustan Times  

Thinking about the future of global food systems has now become more critical than ever. Climate change impacts—among them, shifts in soil quality, precipitation, pest regimes, seasonal growth patterns, along with land degradation and reduction in biodiversity—have impacted agricultural and aquatic food production systems across the world. Indeed, the causal links between climate change and food security are manifesting more …

Farmers Can Play a Big Role in Addressing Climate Change. Climate-Smart Agriculture is The Only Way Forward
2 years, 7 months ago

Farmers Can Play a Big Role in Addressing Climate Change. Climate-Smart Agriculture is The Only Way Forward

News 18  

Punjab and Haryana’s farmers’ obsession with unsustainable big cereals wheat and paddy has begun to hurt, as returns diminish. According to a report tabled in parliament by the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture in August 2017, “the climate change is expected to reduce rice production by 6 to 8 per cent by 2022.” One degree Celsius rise in minimum or …

Ploughing a new channel for India’s food systems
2 years, 9 months ago

Ploughing a new channel for India’s food systems

The Hindu  

In an effort to spur national and regional action to deliver the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals through transforming food systems, the UN Food Systems Summit called for action by governments in five areas: nourish all people; boost nature-based solutions; advance equitable livelihoods, decent work and empowered communities; build resilience to vulnerabilities, shocks and stresses; and accelerate the means …

An MSP scheme to transform Indian agriculture
2 years, 10 months ago

An MSP scheme to transform Indian agriculture

The Hindu  

The ongoing struggle of farmers is not for political power. MSP could serve, in principle, three purposes — price stabilisation in the food grains market, income support to farmers, and also as a mechanism for coping with the indebtedness of farmers. The price stabilisation policy for food grains in India evolved over time, first with the Essential Commodities Act in …

Strengthening the technology ecosystem for agriculture in India | OPINION
3 years ago

Strengthening the technology ecosystem for agriculture in India | OPINION

India Today  

Fasal is an agri startup that has helped farmer Sangarmesh Talikotti to install sensors and cameras in his 2.5-acre tomato farm. The ‘Digital India Initiative’ aims at widespread adoption of technology through digital platforms, analytics, artificial intelligence, block chain, machine learning, Software as a Service and IoT. The areas of ‘idea’ incubation are as diverse as farm inputs, precision agriculture, …

One Size Fits All Will Not Work, Indian Agriculture Needs Decentralised Farm Reforms
3 years ago

One Size Fits All Will Not Work, Indian Agriculture Needs Decentralised Farm Reforms

News 18  

Ultimately, farmers have ended their year-long agitation against the three farm laws. Much conversation has taken place even among farmers on these issues, and there is realisation among stakeholders that a stalemate on farm reforms is neither sustainable nor desirable. Governments at the Centre and states have preferred to ride on electoral sops to win over farmers rather than address …

Reimagining food systems with lessons from India
3 years, 2 months ago

Reimagining food systems with lessons from India

The Hindu  

The first and historic United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 which was held in September this year, concluded after an intense ‘bottom-up’ process conceived in 2019 by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to find solutions and ‘catalyse momentum’ to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks about food and help address rising hunger. The group conducted national dialogues with …

Dr Ashok Dhawale: ‘Crisis has engulfed agrarian society’
3 years, 3 months ago

Dr Ashok Dhawale: ‘Crisis has engulfed agrarian society’

The Hindu  

Dr Ashok Dhawale, national president, All India Kisan Sabha, India’s largest farmers’ organisation, has spearheaded the farmers’ movement for over three decades, and is one of the prominent faces of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha. The simple fact is that India’s agricultural growth rate in the 1980s was higher than the agricultural growth rate in the last 30 years of neoliberal …

A warming world is affecting Indian agriculture, industries
3 years, 4 months ago

A warming world is affecting Indian agriculture, industries

Hindustan Times  

Changes wrought by the climate crisis will have economy-wide repercussions in India if not mitigated, shrivelling both agriculture and industry, experts have warned. “Temperature in apple-growing regions of Himachal Pradesh showed an increase, whereas precipitation showed a decrease in recent years in Lahaul and Spiti and Kinnaur,” one of the ICAR studies said. Sudarshan and co-authors from New Delhi’s Indian …

Sustainable Agriculture: What we know and how to scale up
3 years, 5 months ago

Sustainable Agriculture: What we know and how to scale up

Hindustan Times  

Arguably, the Green Revolution remains the most defining phase of Indian agriculture in the last century. Impact literature on India’s sustainable agriculture From the systematic review of literature, we find that agroforestry, CA, and SRI are the most popular among researchers assessing the impact of SAPSs on various outcomes. Sustainable agriculture’s impact evidence in India • Income: The evidence around …

PM Modi Says Farm Sector Needs Post-harvest Revolution; Govt Impetus on Scientific Ecosystem
3 years, 5 months ago

PM Modi Says Farm Sector Needs Post-harvest Revolution; Govt Impetus on Scientific Ecosystem

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there is a need for a “post-harvest revolution” in the farm sector, which has been witnessing an increase in production. “With the ever increasing agricultural production, there is a need of post-harvest revolution and value addition,” Modi said in a message to commemorate the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development’s foundation day, …

The farming crisis
3 years, 6 months ago

The farming crisis

The Hindu  

ECONOMISTS meeting the Union Finance Minister at routine annual pre-Budget consultations have focussed attention on an aspect that till recently seemed to have no place in India's rapidly expanding horizons - the crisis and stagnation in the agricultural sector. The proximate threat in the farm sector comes from the uneven monsoon precipitation of the last two years, which has raised …

India’s farm sector to sustain momentum, but that’s not enough
3 years, 7 months ago

India’s farm sector to sustain momentum, but that’s not enough

Hindustan Times  

India’s farm sector is forecast to maintain its remarkable expansion in 2021-22 on the back of robust output and prices despite the coronavirus pandemic. A normal monsoon will continue to see an expansion of the agriculture sector, aside from good encouraging prices and acreage trends,” said Abhishek Agrawal of Comtrade, an agricultural trading firm. Better performance of the agriculture sector …

Need to See Agriculture as Modern Biz Enterprise; Urgent Reforms Required: Economic Survey 2021
3 years, 10 months ago

Need to See Agriculture as Modern Biz Enterprise; Urgent Reforms Required: Economic Survey 2021

News 18  

New Delhi: Lauding the farm sector for demonstrating resilience during the pandemic, the Economic Survey on Friday suggested the government to see farm sector as a “modern business enterprise” for which “urgent reforms” are required to enable sustainable and consistent growth. According to the Survey, the farm sector has got “renewed thrust” due to various measures on credit, market reforms …

In agri-reforms, go back to the drawing board
4 years ago

In agri-reforms, go back to the drawing board

The Hindu  

The purpose of agriculture reforms is to increase farmers’ incomes. The problem of low incomes in India’s agriculture sector is a complex systems problem which cannot be solved by agriculture experts alone. Economists point, wistfully, to the firmness with which bold reforms were brought about in 1991, and how the government stood up to the ‘Bombay Club’ of industrialists who …

Poor Farmers, Small Landholdings & Low Crop Yield Crisis: Why India Desperately Needs Farm Reforms
4 years ago

Poor Farmers, Small Landholdings & Low Crop Yield Crisis: Why India Desperately Needs Farm Reforms

News 18  

When it comes to agriculture, India is a land of contradictions. India is one of the top producers of several crops in the world but when it comes to productivity parameters, i.e., crop produced per unit of land, we are yet laggards. However, when it comes to the agricultural yield, or amount of crop produced per unit of land, we …

Precision agriculture could boost India's food production capacity, encourage sustainable farming
4 years ago

Precision agriculture could boost India's food production capacity, encourage sustainable farming

Firstpost  

The world today is rich in data, giving us deep insights into social and environmental challenges. Between, 2014 and 2019, India saw 38 investments in precision agriculture, which focuse on increasing farmer profitability and sustainability, making this one of the top five agritech investment themes. With increasing capital availability, more and more precision agriculture startups are working to solve climate …

Agriculture Reforms: Ignore Political Rhetoric, Embrace Prosperity Economics
4 years, 3 months ago

Agriculture Reforms: Ignore Political Rhetoric, Embrace Prosperity Economics

News 18  

A visibly low-hanging economic reform contains within it several vested interests. In fact, it must start communicating directly with small farmers — the middlemen in the closed agricultural chain are the same that ensure exploitative politics on farms. This law beaks the monopsony of Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees, overseen by state governments, and enables farmers to sell their produce to …

Lounge Heroes | Leading the sustainable agriculture fightback
4 years, 3 months ago

Lounge Heroes | Leading the sustainable agriculture fightback

Live Mint  

By the late 1980s, farming practices in India had undergone drastic change. And in 1986, environmental activist and farmerVijay Jardhari, now 68, launched the Beej Bachao Andolan to preserve local seeds and encourage indigenous farming methods. When Jardhari and others who worked with Beej Bachao Andolan consulted village elders, they realized the change in farming practices wasn’t the only problem: …

India’s farm sector needs help to get back on its feet. Here are 5 ideas | Opinion
4 years, 4 months ago

India’s farm sector needs help to get back on its feet. Here are 5 ideas | Opinion

Hindustan Times  

The agriculture sector is critical for India from a consistent growth and food security perspective as the sector and allied activities account for approximately 55% of India’s workforce and nearly 15% of India’s GDP. Soil health card-based nutrition enhancement programme Rampant use of urea, partly caused by Nutrient Based Subsidy, has led to worsening soil health, decline in crop response …

India’s agriculture policy dilemma
4 years, 4 months ago

India’s agriculture policy dilemma

Hindustan Times  

In his speech at the CII National Council, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das spoke about five dynamic shifts which are underway in the Indian economy. We need to move now to policy strategies that ensure a sustained increase in farmers’ income alongside reasonable food prices for consumers,” Das said. Favourable terms of trade along with reasonable food prices …

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