Agriculture PolicyMarch 18, 2024Punjab Farmers Earn Less Per Hectare Than Those of Andhra, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu By vivian fernandes Farmers of Andhra Pradesh create more value per hectare than those of Punjab, write economist Ashok…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMarch 16, 2024MSP Can Cover Comprehensive Cost, but Margin Cannot be 50 Percent, Say C Rangarajan and S Mahendra Dev By vivian fernandes In the context of farmers demanding minimum support prices (MSP) as a legal guarantee, economists C…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMarch 13, 2024Raising MSP to Levels Demanded By Protesting Farmers Will Feed Inflation, Cause Shift in Cropping Patterns, Two Economists Say By vivian fernandes If minimum support prices (MSP) were to be 50 percent above comprehensive or C2 cost, as the…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMarch 4, 2024Will Guaranteed Procurement of Alternatives at Enhanced MSP Wean Punjab Farmers from Rice? By vivian fernandes The governemnt procures wheat and rice, currently, at minimum support prices MSP). For the purpose…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Bt technologyFebruary 15, 2024Smallholder Farmers Need Minimum Income Assurance; MSP as Legal Guarantee is Not the Way to Do It By vivian fernandes Farmers face weather and price risks. In irrigated Punjab, the weather risk is substantially…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyFebruary 12, 2024The Govt Must Review The Science of Nano Urea Before Promoting Nano DAP By vivian fernandes In the Interim Budget Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman declared that the government would promote…Read more 0 0 6 Share
Agriculture PolicyFebruary 12, 2024Recounting Hits and Misses of Agriculture Policy in Run Up to the Interim Budget By vivian fernandes By convention finance ministers refrain from announcing schemes requiring large budget outlays in…Read more 0 0 6 Share
BriefingOctober 3, 2023Swati Nayak: A Bridge Between Breeders and Smallholder Rice Farmers in Eastern India, Bangladesh and Africa By vivian fernandes Vivian Fernandes interviewed Swati Nayak for upon her winning the 2023 Norman Borlaug Award for…Read more 0 0 0 Share
BriefingOctober 3, 2023M S Swaminathan Was a Catalyst for Rural Prosperity and the Alleviation of Mass Hunger By vivian fernandes This article, by Vivian Fernandes, was published in on the day the architect of the Green…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAugust 25, 2023Delhi Scientists Genome Edit the Mustard Plant for Bland Oil But Retain Insect-Repelling Pungent Compounds in Leaves By vivian fernandes What worth is salt if it loses its salty taste, a revered religious figure is said to have remarked…Read more 0 0 0 Share
