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Promises were made to farmers that rural reforms would double their income, so what's happened to their livelihoods?

The year long agitation against the Modi government’s “agricultural reforms” started after the Centre claimed that the set of controversial laws would benefit private players at their expense.

Tribune News Service Patiala, October 28 Experts during a discussion on three farm laws at Punjabi University on Thursday said, “The government needs to work toward implementing MSP, increasin

We all know it by now. Agriculture was the saviour during the gloomy days of the pandemic. Not only that, an individual household got its regular supply of food during the lockdown, and those who coul

It was expected. The uproar over Sri Lanka’s path-breaking decision to go organic is on predictable lines. The same arguments, the same kind of fear psychosis, and the bogey of ideological think

देविंदर शर्मा वर्ष 1995 में विश्व व्यापार संगठन के वजूद में आने के कुछ दिन बाद, मुझे लंदन के ‘द इकोलॉजिस्ट’ ने भारतीय और यूरोपियन किसान के बीच तुलनात्मक लेख लिखने को आमंत्रित किया था। इसक

ఒక సగటు భారతీయరైతు సాధారణ కూలీ కంటే ఘోరమైన స్థితిలో ఉన్నాడని జాతీయ గణాంకాల సంస్థ (ఎన్‌ఎస్‌ఓ) నివేదిక సూచిస్తోంది. 75 ఏళ్ల స్వాతంత్య్రం తర్వాత కూడా దేశంలో రైతులు పంట సాగు ద్వారా కంటే రోజు క...

2778 Unfair deal: Farming remains in distress because to provide cheap food, the right price is denied to growers. PTI Devinder Sharma Food & Agriculture Specialist IN a recent BBC Radio broadcast, Prince Charles said: “How we produce food has a direct impact on the earth’s capacity to sustain us, which has a direct impact on human health and economic prosperity.” The clamour for producing cheap food, which is at the very foundation of the mad race towards an unfettered economic growth, ...

1154 LIVELIHOOD AT STAKE: The pandemic has struck a severe blow to the economy, with savings getting depleted and unemployment increasing. Tribune photo Devinder Sharma Food & Agriculture Specialist AN additional 230 million people have quietly slid below the poverty line during the first year of the pandemic, reports the Centre for Sustainable Employment at the Azim Premji University (APU). In another study, the Pew Research Centre had computed the middle class to have shrunk by an estimated...

Jun 28, 2021 Vice Chancellor SKUAST-J&K, Dr. J. P. Sharma was Chief Guest, while Dr. Balraj Singh, Project Coordinator, AICRP (Honeybee and Pollinators), New Delhi was guest of honour during the programme. The Vice Chancellor, in his inaugural address, exhorted that there is a need for convergence of the UT department and SKUAST-Jammu for providing maximum benefit to the beekeeping community. Beekeeping can be started with minimal investment and without any land requirement. Beekeeping is a ver...