Agriculture PolicyBriefingMay 14, 2016Sugarcane has not Aggravated Marathwada's Water Shortage, Says Former VC By admin ‘I totally reject the hypothesis that sugarcane has caused scarcity of water,’ says Venkat…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyMay 12, 2016Let Government Procure Agricultural High-Technology Like Defence Equipment: Pravesh Sharma By admin The agriculture ministry’s concerted attack on Monsanto and the hostility it faces from an…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBt cottonGM CropsMay 11, 2016Should Farmers Plant Desi or Bt Cotton? Nationalism Intrudes into a Scientific Debate By admin The currently fashionable belief that everything (well, almost) that is good and great emerged in…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agri-biotechnologyAgriculture PolicyBt cottonGM CropsMay 8, 2016Farmers report higher profits from Desi Cotton in CICR's Initiative to Replace Bt Hybrids By admin Five of 36 farmers who planted desi cotton last year in districts like Akola, Wardha and Amravati of…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMay 4, 2016Land Reforms Have Failed; Leasing is the Solution By admin The land reforms programme has failed to take land from the rich and give it to the poor, reports…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMay 4, 2016Why Agricultural Technology Fails to be Disruptive in India? By admin 1. The farmer is not at the centre of innovations Dilip Kulkarni, food division president at Jain…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyMay 3, 2016Rural Banking Is Poised for a Leap Aided by Digitization and Cellphones: Aditya Puri By admin Aditya Puri, courtesy HDFC Bank Fast moving consumer goods companies have long recognized the worth…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingApril 21, 2016RBI Lifts Lending Freeze on Punjab's Procurement Agencies, say Dailies By admin The Reserve Bank has allowed banks to offer the Punjab government a cash credit limit of Rs 17,523…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBiodiversityGM CropsApril 16, 2016Institute Advices 'Towards Organic' Agriculture for Food Bowl Areas; Silent on GM Crops By admin Since the government is engaged in a nationalist versus multinational battle on genetically-modified…Read more 0 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingApril 13, 2016Cigarette Makers Cite Farmers' Distress, Increased Smuggling, Against Larger Pictorial Health Warnings By admin The cigarette industry is shooting from the shoulders of tobacco farmers. A half-page ad in the…Read more 0 0 0 Share
