Has the winter of farmers’ discontent turned into a glorious summer by the significant hike in minimum support price (MSP)...
The MSP Illusion – Raising procurement prices of kharif crops will only give false hope to farmers.
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The MSP Illusion – Raising procurement prices of kharif crops will only give false hope to farmers.
Framing ‘the least bad option’
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Framing ‘the least bad option’
Punjab never had a policy for agriculture. When asked to formulate one by the government, we drafted a Farmers’ Policy....
Food Security within environmental boundaries | Sunny Verghese & Ajay Vir Jakhar | EAT Forum 2018
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Food Security within environmental boundaries | Sunny Verghese & Ajay Vir Jakhar | EAT Forum 2018
Dealing with the residue
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Dealing with the residue
Given that crop residue burning has an environmental footprint and poses health hazards, one needs to be cautious while evaluating...
Conference on the ‘Draft Pesticide Management Bill 2017′ by Farmers’ Forum India
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Conference on the ‘Draft Pesticide Management Bill 2017′ by Farmers’ Forum India
Unedited version of IE article “Marching against Apathy”
Agonizing; demeaned, disturbed and distressed; shaken and unnerved; duped, deceived and deserted; forsaken and forgotten; disgraced, dishonored, humiliated and discarded;...
Union Budget 2018: A Step Forward
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Union Budget 2018: A Step Forward
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. In Anna Karenina, only if a...
Potato portents
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Potato portents
The crisis in the potato crop’s prices in two of the four years of the Modi government illustrate that farmers...
A law for the farmer
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A law for the farmer
“Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter,” goes an old African proverb,...