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The recently released report from the MoSPI provides some estimates of how the value of agricultural output has changed since 2011-12. The broad national picture of both agricultural output and specifically crop output should be worrying for anyone concerned with the Indian economy and the fate of its people.
The documentary “Farming the Revolution” examines the persistence of farmers protest and has won the coveted Best International Feature Documentary award at the 2024 HotDocs Festival in Toronto.
Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal to commercialise herbicide-tolerant (HT) mustard will destroy not just Indian mustard agriculture but citizens’ health.
Education has led to high mobility, especially in the poorer Marathwada region, but opportunities remain few alongside dwindling incomes, shows a data analysis.
The attempt by neoliberal governance has been to steadily depoliticise farmers’ suicides and strip them of any deeper messaging.
People and cattle suffer as political expediency trumps relief efforts in the drought-stricken State.
Farmers Struggle Far from Over — Corporate Capture of India’s Agri Sector Continues; Review ICAR-Bayer MOU and Others to Ensure That Official Agencies are Not Becoming Marketing Avenues for Corporates.
“The Passing of the Father of India’s Green Revolution – But What Did the GR Really Do for India?”; “Commentary: New Histories of the Indian Green Revolution”; and: “Myths About the Green Revolution”.
Underlying forest management planning and decisions are considerations about what a forest really is. What are trees? Can they be reasonably considered to have consciousness? If there is any possibility trees have consciousness of any sort, then it brings up questions about what is justifiable to do to them in our efforts to “manage” forests.
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced on Sept 8, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit, that India had agreed to reduce tariffs on certain U.S. products, including chickpeas, lentils, almonds, walnuts, apples, frozen chicken-turkey-duck, and several other agricultural products.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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