Loud propaganda or slogans don’t change livelihoods. “We need right policies and follow-up action to help farmers come out of...

‘We need right policies, follow-up action to help farmers’

Constituency Of Farmers
Assembly election results show that deceiving farmers comes with a price Frustration on the farms has reached an inflexion point....

To Harvest A Cruel, Dark Joke
The crisis engulfing farmers was built on the back of negligence and bad policy. The resultant migration to urban India...

Dhaka Diary: What I Witnessed Between the Traffic and the Politics
That after 30 years, the prime minister has to depend on the legacy of the founder, is a sad state...

For The Farmer’s Future
It is important to evaluate the consequences of the Centre’s agriculture policy. With elections around the corner, it’s too late...

The MSP Illusion – Raising procurement prices of kharif crops will only give false hope to farmers.
Has the winter of farmers’ discontent turned into a glorious summer by the significant hike in minimum support price (MSP)...

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

Dealing with the residue
Given that crop residue burning has an environmental footprint and poses health hazards, one needs to be cautious while evaluating...