The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020 may not be so detrimental to the farmers producing surpluses. It is the consumers who may have to worry.
Replying to a letter written by an Uttarakhand farmer, Modi said the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana scheme is protecting economic interests of farmers.
Farmers have been charged under the Indian Penal Code and National Highways Act after complaints from the National Highways Authority of India and local authorities, said police.
The day will mark four months of the farmers’ protest at Delhi borders. A farmer leader said they will also protest fuel price hike & railway privatisation on 15 March.
India's Foreign Secretary told the envoy that discussions in the UK Parliament on India's farms reforms represented a gross interference in politics of another democratic country.
From Champaran to Tebhaga, farmers’ movements have been political. But that took a turn in the 1980s-90s, when the chorus for ‘apolitical movements’ grew.
Farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and UP have sent their children to the Army for generations. But ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ has become just a rhetoric.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
what an unbelievable story. india is surplus in agriculture. allowing stocking will enable deep pockets buy at ridiculous prices and yet make a killing on sale at so called reasonable prices. where we are not surplus i do not see any crony taking very long term bets on global pricing. they are the ones who corner the import licenses. the authors do not have a clue on how markets work when the producers are many and fragments and buyers restricted to cronies of the governments.
Cartellisation is quite possible by sponsors/ Cos. Hence one rider that food inflation should not exceed 7% in normal season & 10% in bad crop season should be added so that food inflation is in line with RBI expectations. It should be made compulsory for sponsors to decide quantity to be bought at msp while making contract n price agreed mutually over certain % of cost of production for excess quantity produced with max quantity specified. If sponsor not ready to buy excess produce farmer shall be free to sell in Apmc, or open market. This will ensure profit to farmer. Farmers should also be advised to diversify products n produce import substitutes like pulses, oilseeds or herbal plants etc to avoid excess supply n fall in price.
what an unbelievable story. india is surplus in agriculture. allowing stocking will enable deep pockets buy at ridiculous prices and yet make a killing on sale at so called reasonable prices. where we are not surplus i do not see any crony taking very long term bets on global pricing. they are the ones who corner the import licenses. the authors do not have a clue on how markets work when the producers are many and fragments and buyers restricted to cronies of the governments.
Cartellisation is quite possible by sponsors/ Cos. Hence one rider that food inflation should not exceed 7% in normal season & 10% in bad crop season should be added so that food inflation is in line with RBI expectations. It should be made compulsory for sponsors to decide quantity to be bought at msp while making contract n price agreed mutually over certain % of cost of production for excess quantity produced with max quantity specified. If sponsor not ready to buy excess produce farmer shall be free to sell in Apmc, or open market. This will ensure profit to farmer. Farmers should also be advised to diversify products n produce import substitutes like pulses, oilseeds or herbal plants etc to avoid excess supply n fall in price.