At ongoing 12-day UN convention, members of Brahma Kumaris spiritual group claim application of ‘pure mind power’ could help farmers increase crop yield.
Competition has gotten so fierce, and prices so low, that coffee farming has become untenable for many small growers -- leading their adult children to shun the business.
The PM-KISAN scheme, launched this year in February, aims to provide Rs 6,000 annually in three equal instalments to 14.5 crore farmers who hold up to 2 hectare land.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
The problem is more the govt intervenes in the market, the market will function even less. As a society we shall then have to bear the dead weight loss from intervention.
It is amazing that we are doing this for 70 yrs with the same results still the population does not learn at all.
There are rare occasions nowadays when farmers get a windfall benefit. Even in the present case, one does not know if smart traders have locked in the crop at a much lower price. As an urban consumer, one feels our interests should be subservient to those of farmers. Frequent bans can impede the development of stable, long term export markets. For commodities like onions that have a relatively longer shelf life, the interests of consumers could be protected by organisms like NAFED maintaining buffer stocks.
The problem is more the govt intervenes in the market, the market will function even less. As a society we shall then have to bear the dead weight loss from intervention.
It is amazing that we are doing this for 70 yrs with the same results still the population does not learn at all.
There are rare occasions nowadays when farmers get a windfall benefit. Even in the present case, one does not know if smart traders have locked in the crop at a much lower price. As an urban consumer, one feels our interests should be subservient to those of farmers. Frequent bans can impede the development of stable, long term export markets. For commodities like onions that have a relatively longer shelf life, the interests of consumers could be protected by organisms like NAFED maintaining buffer stocks.
… organisations …Fortunately the iPad did not change the word into something else.