BriefingDecember 17, 2020Digital Start-ups Are Changing Agriculture with Quick Fixes to Knotty Problems By vivian fernandes Agriculture has become a hotbed of innovation. Digital startups are attracting risk money by…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingDecember 10, 2020Why Raw Honey is Mixed with Sugar Syrup and How Much Should it Cost? What Bibek Debroy Says By vivian fernandes Is branded honey adulterated as the Centre for Science and Environment alleges on the basis of a…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingDecember 8, 2020Why Compelling Traders to Pay MSP is a Terrible Idea By vivian fernandes There is creeping nationalisation of the rice and wheat trade owing to high procurement prices, says…Read more 0 1 0 Share
BriefingDecember 7, 2020Punjab Needs a Rs 10,000 cr High-Value Crop Diversification Package over Five Years, says Ag Economist By vivian fernandes Agricultural economist Ashok Gulati, who was Chairman of the Commission on Agricultural Costs and…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingDecember 6, 2020Punjab’s Procurement-Driven Agriculture Needs Managed Market-oriented Change By vivian fernandes Fear and grievance have impelled droves of farmers in Punjab to lay siege of Delhi, reports Vivian…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingDecember 3, 2020When Punjab Farmers Demand Procurement at MSP They Mean Assured Prices and an End to Income Uncertainty By vivian fernandes Punjab’s farmers are bivouacking at Delhi’s Singhu border. It looks like they have come…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingDecember 2, 2020Rather than Fear a Sell-out to Companies, Punjab Farmers Must Welcome Them for Crop Diversification By vivian fernandes A Punjab farmer leader said at a press conference on Sunday, 29 November, that one of the reasons…Read more 0 0 0 Share
