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Friday, May 10, 2024
TopicAgriculture

Topic: Agriculture

With all the economic gloom and doom, this is India’s sunrise sector

The biggest potential benefit of this sector will be achieving more of Make in India.

Supreme Court vindicates itself, but that’s not enough

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

GM foods are safe. We don’t need labels with smiley faces to sell them

There’s no need to dress up the labels to suggest that genetic modification makes foods somehow better. That risks misleading the public.

India’s rice history may not have had anything to do with China

At a lake called Lahuradewa in the Gangetic plain, three Lucknow researchers have found evidence of independent domestication of rice in India that predates China by 800 years.

How Yogendra Yadav’s Youth for Swaraj is taking urban students to India’s villages

Yadav’s socio-political platform Youth for Swaraj has been providing a chance to India’s youngsters to work at the grass-root level and study the agrarian crisis.

Modi government has a new slogan ahead of 2019: Farmer’s India

Battling anti-farmer tag, govt gets ready to highlight achievements in agriculture sector on its fourth anniversary.

Amid Maharashtra farm sector slump, crop loans fall by 40%

Overall credit to agriculture sector plunges 50%; state sets ambitious targets for 2018-19

Pakistani citizens come together to donate and reunite long-distance couple

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistani advertising sees growing Chinese influence, Karachi sweats amid 'power tussle'. Long-distance married couple set up crowdfunding campaign to...

Why an agriculture economist wants India to dump food subsidies

According to Ashok Gulati, the system’s bias towards consumers needs to be dumped, as do the dole model and export bans.

Israeli technology is helping grow more tomatoes in Tamil Nadu & mangoes in Maharashtra

Israel has set up 23 centres across India to share its knowledge on agriculture using less water and other innovative techniques. 

On Camera

US campus protests shows up Western media hypocrisy. Compare how they covered JNU stir

To understand the depth of bias against India or the lack of understanding of ground reality in India, one only needs to examine the headlines from Western media covering the protests in colleges of both countries.

Day after mass sick leave by employees, Air India Express fires crew members, cancels 85 more flights

About 300 employees had called in sick Wednesday, allegedly in protest against mismanagement of airlines. Remaining staff given ultimatum to rejoin work by end of Thursday.

Three Indian Navy ships deployed to South China Sea

Deployment comes at a time when Yuan Wang 03, a Chinese missile and satellite tracking vessel, has entered Indian Ocean Region.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.