Articles for Rural Consumption

Milk production in Karnataka up by 62% in 5 years
1 week, 1 day ago

Milk production in Karnataka up by 62% in 5 years

The Hindu  

Karnataka’s milk production grew by 62% over five years, reaching 12.83 million tonnes in 2022-23, according to the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying. Milk availability in Karnataka The State’s per capita milk availability has also improved significantly, increasing from 332 grams per day in 2018-19 to 523 grams per day in 2022-23. Karnataka Milk Statistics Milk Production 2018-19: …

Karnataka Urban Areas State Million Singh Tonnes Milk Production
Rural consumption revival pushes digital demand in small towns
1 month, 1 week ago

Rural consumption revival pushes digital demand in small towns

Live Mint  

Indians in smaller towns are spending more online than their urban counterparts on the back of a much-awaited revival in rural demand. Festive season spending patterns indicate a revival in semi-urban and rural consumption demand, with smaller cities seeing a significant rise in spending. Urban consumption growth in the September quarter fell sharply to 2.8% from 10.1% in the March …

Growth Urban Cities Consumption Spending Report Tier
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The politics behind India’s rural and urban spending
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The politics behind India’s rural and urban spending

Deccan Chronicle  

Household consumption expenditure estimates are based on a national survey of 0.1 per cent of the 194.9 million rural and 89.5 million urban households/families. The corresponding share of expenditure on food increases from 46.4 per cent in rural areas to 47 per cent and from 39.2 per cent in urban areas to 40 per cent. Rural consumption, as a proportion …

Food India Growth Rural Urban Income Rural Areas
Decoding consumption: On the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Decoding consumption: On the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey

The Hindu  

In an uncharacteristic late Saturday release, the Statistics Ministry unveiled the broad findings of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey done between August 2022 and July 2023. This is significant as it is the first major survey-based data released since 2011-12 that captures ground realities at the household level — especially with the once-a-decade Census, due since 2021, nowhere in sight. …

Household Consumption Expenditure Survey
Modest MSP hike is a tightrope act by govt
1 year, 6 months ago

Modest MSP hike is a tightrope act by govt

Hindustan Times  

Concerns over sluggish rural demand in a pre-election year, and the risks of disruption to agricultural output from El Nino-driven drought-like conditions, put the spotlight on the quantum of increase in the government’s announcement of the Minimum Support Price at which it will procure crops from farmers for the 2023-24 kharif season. It turns out that weighing the crops by …

Inflation Impact Rural Price Rbi Act Increase
Budget 2022: Bharat needs revival of animal spirits to boost consumption
2 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2022: Bharat needs revival of animal spirits to boost consumption

Firstpost  

Budget 2022: Rural demand turned sluggish after the second wave of the pandemic even as other parts of the economy recovered robustly The first advance estimate of India’s GDP growth for 2021-22 indicated a steadfast recovery in the economy after the blow from COVID-19 in 2020-21. “There is a structural losing of consumption momentum in the rural areas since 2018.” …

India Economy Consumer Rural Consumption Cent Quarter
The cost of prohibition: On spurt in hooch tragedies
3 years, 1 month ago

The cost of prohibition: On spurt in hooch tragedies

The Hindu  

The deaths in the last few days of at least 25 people in Bihar’s Gopalganj and West Champaran districts and five in Muzaffarpur apart from several others taking ill after consuming spurious liquor points to the unintended but not unexpected consequences of the total prohibition law that has been in effect in the State for more than five years. Yet, …

Bihar Deaths Liquor State Prohibition Hooch
Poverty in India is on the rise again
3 years, 4 months ago

Poverty in India is on the rise again

The Hindu  

India has not released its Consumption Expenditure Survey data since 2011-12. Based on the Tendulkar poverty line, the poverty estimates for 2004-05 and 2011-12 are to be found in the Planning Commission’s own estimates using the CES of those years. Hence, we have extended the 2011-12 poverty line for each State and used the consumption expenditure reported by the PLFS …

India Poverty Data Poor Million Number Tendulkar
Budget will help increase rural consumption: FMCG makers
3 years, 10 months ago

Budget will help increase rural consumption: FMCG makers

Live Mint  

The FMCG industry on Monday said a special focus on the agriculture sector in the Union Budget will help increase rural consumption and sustain growth momentum. FMCG manufacturers -- like ITC, Emami, Marico and Jyothy Labs -- said it is encouraging capital infusion in infrastructure, divestment and restructuring of allocations without impacting consumers negatively. According to ITC Chairman & Managing …

India Growth Infrastructure Rural Budget Consumption Fmcg