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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicAgriculture

Topic: Agriculture

Modi govt didn’t address jobs crisis in the first term. India’s progress depends on it now

India needs a National Employment Strategy with ministries made to submit to PMO annual action plans on how they will realise the goals.

Climate extremes are slashing rice & maize yields, threatening global food supply: Study

Australian researchers find that adverse weather causes nearly 50% of global yield losses for maize and spring wheat, 25% for rice and 20% for soybeans.

Modern agricultural methods may end up killing us more than cancer

Indiscriminate use of fungicides in agriculture & food production is perhaps the reason for a sudden rise in drug-resistant infections.

It will not rain enough in 2019 & that’s more important than who comes to power in Lok Sabha

There is an alarming need to acknowledge and prepare for the upcoming monsoons. And it can’t wait for the formation of a new government.

To help Indian farmers, we have to support PepsiCo in its fight for the potato

The PPVFR Act, under which PepsiCo registered its potato variant, might be imperfect but we should still condemn its violation.

Want to help farmers, remove middlemen? Scrap the law governing agri markets

Model APMC laws suffer from the same economic problem as the old ones. We should repeal APMC laws and not replace them.

Cabinet approves Rs 2,000 crore Agri-Market Infrastructure Fund

The Rs 2,000 crore corpus will be created with NABARD for development and upgradation of rural agriculture markets.

Cabinet likely to approve agri-package for farmers tomorrow

The agriculture ministry has recommended several options to provide both short and long term solutions to address agrarian distress. A final call will be taken in the cabinet meeting.

Farm loan waiver only a temporary step, says Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu

Naidu emphasised the need to bring structural changes in the sector that accounts for 18% of India's GDP.

Land reform a game-changer that Narendra Modi government has overlooked

It must be the core priority for any government that wants to improve the agricultural situation.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.