Unchecked corporate power and increasing political influence have left farmers to operate under the push ‘get big or get out’ and often driven abuse of farmers’ rights.
With favourable agro-climatic conditions, skilled manpower, infrastructure and logistics for quality seed production and storage, Telangana meets more than 60 per cent of India’s seed requirement.
The common causes of global warming are already known. However, very few people are aware that our food habits also have a significant impact on global warming.
The Punjab farmers are irked with the government for blowing a chance to save water and in turn, help them save money.
Till May 18, 7.04 million MT of wheat was procured in Haryana, against the Food Corporation of India (FCI) target of 9.5 million MT.
Following herd mentality, farmers produce the same crop. The KCR government move is to make the farmers produce what the market wants.
In order to save its fast depleting water table, Haryana is disincentivising the cultivation of paddy.
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India Today Editor-in-Chief talks about why this year’s bumper harvest could be a lifeline in these bleak times, in the May 4, 2020 edition of the India Today Magazine.
India's economy has hit a five-year low growth of 6.8 per cent in 2018-19. All eyes are now on how the finance minister proposes to steer the economy.
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