India’s Agriculture Minister Fiddles, While The Country Faces The Heat On Food Prices
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India’s Agriculture Minister Fiddles, While The Country Faces The Heat On Food Prices By Devinder Sharma 30 January, 2010 Devinder Sharma Blog The media has finally woken up to the gross incompetence of the Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar that [...]

The policies of the central government are responsible for the price rise. These policies include:

· the pre-budget hike in the prices of petrol by Rs 4 a litre and diesel by Rs 2 a litre;
· the refusal to ban futures trade in essential commodities, leading to speculation (reflected in the high increase [...]

.Relentless rise in the prices of essential commodities.

The prices of rice, wheat, edible oil, and salt have risen by 12 per cent to 20 per cent, and the prices of some vegetables have doubled. The cost of pulses has more than doubled, and the price of arhar (tur) dal is now Rs 100 [...]

जाडे कै छो की पूनम पराये प्रकाश से निडाना के आसमान में माघा नक्षत्र ढूँढ रही थी। माह महीने में सर्दी के मिजाज़ से अनभिज्ञ गेहूं की बालियाँ प्रजनन परीक्षा पास कर बूर बिखेर रही थी। इनके पेट में पल रहे दानों के लिए भोजन पकाने का काम दिन में ही निपटा कर, पत्ताका पत्ते [...]

Mass genocide of cotton farmers in the dying field of vidarbha is till continue since June-2005 that after dumping of highly subsidies US cotton in India in jan-2005 followed by withdrawal price protection under cotton monopoly scheme by Maharashtra Govt. of congress-NCP and in last 4 days 12 vidarbha farmers suicides have
reported due distress and [...]

Is Contract Farming Really The Solution For Indian Agriculture?
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The Co-op said it will eliminate the usage of the neonicotinoid family of chemicals where possible and until they are shown to be safe. The Co-op has over 70,000 acres of land under cultivation in England and Scotland, making it the largest farmer in the UK. Since 2001, it has already prohibited the use of [...]

With 60 per cent of India’s population directly engaged in agriculture, and another 200 million landless workers indirectly banking on farming, the real stimulus to the economy can come only if the focus shifts to agriculture, says Devinder Sharma.
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