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The pain inside poultry’s new pecking order
1 year, 10 months ago

The pain inside poultry’s new pecking order

Live Mint  

You may not see tears in my eyes. Demand for poultry meat has recovered post-pandemic, but for more than four months now, Soni’s cost of production is higher than market prices. In India, contract farming companies mostly offload their produce in the wholesale market, competing with individual farmers. “By not expanding their market for processed meat and dumping the produce …

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Supreme Court-appointed committee report on three farm laws reiterates Modi government's stance
2 years, 8 months ago

Supreme Court-appointed committee report on three farm laws reiterates Modi government's stance

The Hindu  

With the Bharatiya Janata Party returning to power in four of the five States in which Assembly elections were held in February-March and the report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee being made public by one of its members, there appears to be an attempt to resurrect the three controversial farm laws. On the basis of the feedback received from the …

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How reforms are imperative for strengthening the growing basket of high value agriculture
3 years ago

How reforms are imperative for strengthening the growing basket of high value agriculture

Firstpost  

Implementation of policy reforms has always been tough. Markets have played an important role in shaping agricultural diversification in India — from cereals, pulses and coarse grains to high value, protein and nutrient-rich commodities including fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, eggs and fisheries. Policy provisions such as giving farmers the freedom to sell beyond APMC regulated markets; encouraging direct marketing, …

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SBI report predicts India's FY22 GDP growth at 9.6%, cites strong Covid response
3 years, 1 month ago

SBI report predicts India's FY22 GDP growth at 9.6%, cites strong Covid response

India Today  

India’s success in checking the spread of Covid-19 infections and a strong vaccination drive could drive Q2 GDP to 8.1 per cent and the FY22 GDP growth in the range of 9.3-9.6 per cent. Juxtaposing the gains in the battle against the pandemic that brought an economic downturn last year, the report has forecast India’s GDP growth for Q2 FY22 …

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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 …

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Punjab govt accuses Centre of 'armtwisting' to switch to DBT. Here are the facts
3 years, 8 months ago

Punjab govt accuses Centre of 'armtwisting' to switch to DBT. Here are the facts

Op India  

On April 4, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu called Union Minister Piyush Goyal a ‘liar’ and claimed that if his letter to Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh urging online MSP payment gets implemented, small farmers will become the biggest sufferers. He said, “While I fully endorse the views that as a society, and a nation we have to continuously evolve …

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'Protesting to protect our bread and butter': Farmers at Azad Maidan say MSP, mandis crucial to sustain families
3 years, 10 months ago

'Protesting to protect our bread and butter': Farmers at Azad Maidan say MSP, mandis crucial to sustain families

Firstpost  

Around 15,000 farmers from various districts of Maharashtra have gathered at the Azad Maidan in Mumbai to protest against the Centre’s contentious farm laws. Santu Devram Tumbde from the Ambas village in Nashik district’s Peth taluka had joined the protest rally in 2018, is back at Azad Maidan now — this time, against the Centre’s agri laws and in solidarity …

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‘If APMC mandis go, MSP will vanish’
3 years, 11 months ago

‘If APMC mandis go, MSP will vanish’

The Hindu  

E ven if the government wouldhave everyone believe that the farmers’ protest has no basis, the experience of people involved in the sector has been otherwise. Around 12 per cent of farmers left farming altogether. Eighty-six per cent of Indian farmers have less than two hectares; 67 per cent of them have less than one hectare. Assuming that 94 per …

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No Plans to Enter Contract Farming: Reliance Industries, Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Suspected Missing & Other Top Stories - News18
3 years, 11 months ago

No Plans to Enter Contract Farming: Reliance Industries, Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Suspected Missing & Other Top Stories - News18

News 18  

No Plans to Enter Contract Farming, Won’t Purchase Any Agricultural Land, Says Reliance Industries Dispelling the rumours that Reliance Industries Limited is placed to benefit from the three farm reform laws passed by the central government, the conglomerate on Monday said it has no plans of entering the contract or the corporate farming business, and it has never bought agricultural …

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Reliance Industries has no plans to enter contract farming, says company in media statement on farmers' protests
3 years, 11 months ago

Reliance Industries has no plans to enter contract farming, says company in media statement on farmers' protests

Firstpost  

Following the vandalisation of several mobile towers of Reliance Industries’ Subsidiary Jio Infocomm, RIL and Jio have filed a petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday, seeking to stop acts of vandalism. RIL released the following media statement on Monday: *** Reliance Industries Limited, through its subsidiary Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, in a petition mentioned to be …

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The duplicity of the farm laws, or how they do not help farmers
3 years, 11 months ago

The duplicity of the farm laws, or how they do not help farmers

The Hindu  

WHEN the government decided to open agricultural markets to agribusinesses and large traders as part of the economic package it came out with in May 2020, some commentators said that this was the “1991 moment” for agriculture, thus drawing a parallel with the market-oriented economic reforms the P.V. The tacit assumption is that the laws liberate the market from the …

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The farmers’ protest, truths and half-truths
3 years, 11 months ago

The farmers’ protest, truths and half-truths

The Hindu  

The farmers’ protest that currently ring-fences Delhi resists resolution as the air is dense with contrary sets of truths and half-truths. Protesters’ truth Farmers of Punjab and Haryana alone provide as much as 45% of the marketable surplus of wheat and rice by leveraging Agricultural Produce Market Committee regulations and the Minimum Support Price. So the farmers’ demand is not …

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Opinion | Trust Modi : He has implemented Swaminathan report
4 years ago

Opinion | Trust Modi : He has implemented Swaminathan report

India TV News  

In his direct address to the farmers of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday appealed to them “with bowed head and folded hands” to rejoin the dialogue with the Centre on issues relating to the three new agrarian laws. Modi said, it was his government which acted on Swaminathan Commission’s report and raised the MSPs to one and a …

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Maharashtra's failed marketing experiment
4 years ago

Maharashtra's failed marketing experiment

The Hindu  

Maharashtra, which ranks among the country’s leading agricultural producers, has periodically since the early 2000s introduced agricultural reforms to enable private markets. Following the Central government’s Model Agricultural Produce and Livestock Market Act, the Devendra Fadnavis-led Bharatiya Janata Party government began the process of deregulating all agricultural produce, opening new channels for farmers to sell outside the Agriculture Produce Marketing …

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'Punjab Has Failed to Transit to Manufacturing & Service Economy, Must Diversify in Agriculture'
4 years ago

'Punjab Has Failed to Transit to Manufacturing & Service Economy, Must Diversify in Agriculture'

News 18  

Punjab has been an economic failure. Punjab has been an economic failure, because even though in the past 10- 15 years it has had the highest per capita income because of agriculture, it hasn’t made the transition to an industrial or service economy to provide jobs for young people. Madhya Pradesh is a much better agriculture producer than Punjab; it …

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Supply chain inefficiencies must be fixed to bring agri-reform benefits to all farmers, says ex-Karnataka price commission chief
4 years ago

Supply chain inefficiencies must be fixed to bring agri-reform benefits to all farmers, says ex-Karnataka price commission chief

Firstpost  

While APMCs in Karnataka have flaws, one should not use that as an excuse to advocate a total death knell to the APMC system, said Dr Prakash Kammardi While much of media attention is directed at the ongoing farmers’ protests in and around Delhi, there has been little examination of how India’s major agrarian states actually go about the business …

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Farmers' protests: An intellectual biography of India’s new agri laws
4 years ago

Farmers' protests: An intellectual biography of India’s new agri laws

Firstpost  

It is time for politicians, administrators, economists, policymakers and other concerned citizens to examine the evolution of these laws The debate around the economics and administration of farm laws stands frozen by politics. • Chapter VII: a new Chapter on ‘Contract Farming’ added to provide for: ‣ Compulsory registration of all contract farming sponsors ‣ Recording of contract farming agreements …

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An Intellectual Biography of India's New Agri Reforms
4 years ago

An Intellectual Biography of India's New Agri Reforms

News 18  

The debate around the economics and administration of farm laws stands frozen by politics. “PROVISION MADE FOR DIRECT SALE OF FARM PRODUCE TO CONTRACT FARMING SPONSOR FROM FARMERS’ FIELD WITHOUT THE NECESSITY OF ROUTING IT THROUGH NOTIFIED MARKETS” • Chapter VII: a new Chapter on ‘Contract Farming’ added to provide for: ‣ Compulsory registration of all contract farming sponsors ‣ …

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Whenever corporate presence grows, small and marginal farmers have a difficult time: Professor R Ramakumar
4 years ago

Whenever corporate presence grows, small and marginal farmers have a difficult time: Professor R Ramakumar

Firstpost  

In an interview, Professor R Ramakumar, economist at the school of development studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, explains the lessons India could learn from Kerala Over the past two weeks, the National Capital of India has been raging with farmers’ protests against the three farm bills the Union government pushed through in September 2020. The most controversial …

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Dispute Resolution More Complex, Provisions of Farmers' Interest Missing: IIM-A Prof on New Agrarian Laws
4 years ago

Dispute Resolution More Complex, Provisions of Farmers' Interest Missing: IIM-A Prof on New Agrarian Laws

News 18  

While opening new channels, the existing ones under the Agricultural Produce Market Committee must not be compromised, cautioned Professor Sukhpal Singh, the former chairperson of the Center for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Ahmedabad, speaking to News18.com on the three agrarian laws that have led to a nationwide stir by farmers. Farmers are worried about the unequal playing field …

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Dilli Chalo march | Protesting farmers not ‘properly understood’ new farm laws: Niti Aayog member
4 years ago

Dilli Chalo march | Protesting farmers not ‘properly understood’ new farm laws: Niti Aayog member

The Hindu  

Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand has said protesting farmers have not fully or properly understood the new farm laws, asserting that these legislations have potential to increase farm income in a big way. “If these new farm laws are allowed to be implemented, there are very high chances of big increase in income of the farmers and in many States, …

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State governments in Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan get their acts together and pass amended farm Bills in their State Assemblies
4 years, 1 month ago

State governments in Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan get their acts together and pass amended farm Bills in their State Assemblies

The Hindu  

IN September, Parliament passed three controversial Bills deregulating the sale of agricultural produce, legalising contract farming and liberalising stock limit norms. The three pieces of legislation—the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce Bill, the Farmers Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, and the Essential Commodities Bill—got presidential assent on September 28. In October-November, the Congress-ruled governments of Punjab, Chhattisgarh …

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Rajasthan Farm Reforms Silent on Enforcing MSP Except in Contract Farming, Unlike Punjab
4 years, 1 month ago

Rajasthan Farm Reforms Silent on Enforcing MSP Except in Contract Farming, Unlike Punjab

News 18  

The agriculture reforms brought by the Congress government in Rajasthan to counter the Centre’s new farm laws are silent about enforcing the minimum support price in crop sales which take place inside and outside the Agricultural Produce Market Committee mandis. “No sale or purchase of wheat or paddy shall be valid unless the price paid for such agricultural produce is …

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How two brothers from Coimbatore created India’s biggest poultry company
4 years, 2 months ago

How two brothers from Coimbatore created India’s biggest poultry company

Live Mint  

In February, as the covid-19 outbreak in India was just beginning, a rumour on WhatsApp led to fears that the virus could spread through chicken. “Only one butcher shop in Coimbatore bought the chicken,” Soundararajan recalls. “Then one day,” says Soundararajan, “that guy went inside for some murder case.” His shop shut. “We understood we had to grow big but …

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