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Topic: Agriculture

No one wants imported onions. So, Modi govt plans distress sale to states at Rs 10/kg

Samyak Pandey - February 6, 2020

Govt spent Rs 226 crore to import the onions, but has only sold worth Rs 17-19 crore to the states.

Now, Bangladesh set to steal march over India with GM rice that fights malnutrition

Mohana Basu - February 5, 2020

A GM rice variety called golden rice has been deemed safe in fresh tests conducted by researchers from the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute.

India can’t have true reform in agriculture if we keep hitching it to rural development

Mekhala Krishnamurthy - February 4, 2020

The systematic marginalisation of agriculture in Indian economy, including by Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget, reveals why we can never fix it.

Cherry tomatoes are 80,000 yrs old. No humans were domesticating plants that long ago

Hamid Razifard - February 2, 2020

For many years, scientists believed that humans domesticated the tomato in two major phases. But maybe the tomato as we know it started as a wild species.

Budget 2020 pays little more than lip service to farmers and agri sector. Just like last year

Shweta Saini - February 1, 2020

Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget has missed the opportunity to give farm sector the much-required thrust. And by reducing food & fertiliser subsidy, it has made matters worse.

Onion prices likely to fall this year as govt forecasts 7% rise in production

Samyak Pandey - January 27, 2020

Onion prices had skyrocketed to Rs 100 per kg in several parts of the country last November due to a 30-40 per cent dip in its production.

Rice, maize, pulses production expected to fall because of erratic 2019 monsoon

Samyak Pandey - January 24, 2020

Kharif harvest for 2019-20 is expected to be around 17% lower than it was in 2018-19 — falling to 484.8 MMT from 589.6 MMT.

India’s agriculture departments are complex. But Odisha is using data to fix it

Ankur Bansal - January 20, 2020

In growing calls for mechanisation, Indian states have overlooked governance in agriculture. But Odisha didn't and here's how it revamped its agriculture sector.

Maharashtra farmers are asserting their freedom by celebrating HTBt cotton crop harvest

Barun S. Mitra - January 3, 2020

‘Skill India', 'Make in India' and 'Ease of doing business' have nothing to offer farmers. Every aspect of agriculture in India is tied up in regulations.

Modi govt supports Zero Budget Natural Farming but doesn’t have enough budget to promote it

Samyak Pandey - December 31, 2019

From PM Modi to FM Nirmala Sitharaman, the govt has always spoken in support of ZBNF. But the budget allocation for its promotion is quite meagre.

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