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A study in Andhra Pradesh compares three prevalent farming methods, analysing their overall benefits such as production, economic impact and social and health implications. It concludes that community-based natural farming offers superior benefits in terms of higher yields, crop diversity and income for farmers.
A BJP-friendly NRI businessman’s proposal to Niti Aayog paved the way for the creation of a task force that authored a report pushing for corporatisation of agriculture as a way to double farmers’ income. Subsequently, the Adani Group lobbied to remove curbs on hoarding. Farm laws did just that.
United, landless workers and opposition parties force the State government to set up a committee for their demands.
‘Shocking Corruption and Violation of Ethics in Regulatory Work Concerning GM Crops’; and: ‘Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn’.
Pt 1: Modi Gov’t Ignores Internal Red Flags on Health Risks to Force Fortified Rice on Poor; Pt 2: Confidential NITI Aayog Report Reveals Centre Bungled Rice Fortification Pilot Projects; Pt 3: Fortified Rice a Bonanza for a Dutch Firm.
Bhaskar Save died on 24 October 2015 at age 93. Emphasising self-reliance at the farm/village level, Save was regarded as the ‘Gandhi of natural farming’. In 2006 he published an open letter on the disastrous effects of green revolution for India – socially, economically and ecologically. We reproduce this letter here.
The 14th FC had recommended transfer of significant quantum of untied funds to local bodies, that would have strengthened fiscal decentralisation. The Union Government accepted this recommendation, but has imposed several conditionalities in the release of these funds, effectively leading to fiscal centralisation.
Climate uncertainty and the resulting financial loss have created a mental health crisis in this drought-prone region in Maharashtra.
In the absence of official data, an analysis of CMIE data reveals that: employment opportunities are persistently low, available jobs are low paying and with no job security, the working population constantly shifts from one job to another in search of sustenance.
It has been 13 years since farmer Kamal Chandra’s suicide in Chiltampalle village. His wife Parameshwari is still struggling to repay his loans from private moneylenders for which she has no written records.
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