BriefingMay 29, 2021Even Palm Oil Has Risen by Half to Rs 133 a Kg; Why are Cooking Oil Prices So High? By vivian fernandes The rise in cooking oil prices has jolted the government. The Department of Food and Public…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 26, 2021Crop Care Federation Issues Ad Charging MNCs With Sitting on Ag Chem Patents to Choke Competition By vivian fernandes Crop Care Federation of India is at it again. After taking on anti-GM activists in a full-page…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 25, 2021Yuan Longping, Father of Hybrid Rice, Dies; Mourners Throng to Pay Tributes By vivian fernandes Mourners at the Mingyangshan Funeral Home in Changsha. Photo Courtesy of Global Times. Yuan Longping…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingMay 21, 2021Pune-based Farm ERP Firm Ties Up With State Bank of India For an App to Enable Smallholder Farmers Keep Tab on Cost and Profit By vivian fernandes It is said that if you can measure it you can manage it. Most farmers are unable to manage cost of…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingMay 5, 2021Poly House Cultivation is Not Profitable without Subsidy, HP University Researchers Find By vivian fernandes Is protected cultivation in poly houses profitable? Indervir Singh, Faculty Member of the Central…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingApril 21, 2021Shetkari Sanghatana President Writes to SEBI Chairman Asking Him Not to Give in to Traders' Lobby and Ban Futures Trading in Soybean By vivian fernandes This is an email which the Shetkari Sanghatana, a union of farmers based in Maharashtra, sent…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingApril 20, 2021There're Fewer Farmers Than the Official Count; They Need a Safety Net, says IE Editor By vivian fernandes When I spoke to Jagtar Brar, a farmer of Mehma Sarja village, near Goniana Mandi in Bathinda for his…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingFebruary 6, 2021Shetkari Sanghatana Opposes Legally-Guaranteed MSP; Urges Centre Not to Compromise at Any Cost By vivian fernandes Opposing the demand of the farmers protesting on the borders of Delhi for legally-guaranteed minimum…Read more 0 0 Share
BriefingFebruary 3, 2021Chief Justice Sharad Bobde's Association with the Shetkari Sanghatana is No Secret; He Himself has Acknowledged It By vivian fernandes The Supreme Court Committee on Farm Laws today heard representatives from the Shetkari Sanghatana…Read more 0 0 Share
Agriculture PolicyBriefingFebruary 3, 2021Budget 2021-22 Disappoints by Not Making Allocation for Diversification from Wheat and Rice in Punjab, Haryana By vivian fernandes There hasn’t been a big increase in the share of wheat or rice procured by the previous or present…Read more 0 0 Share