Integrated Rural Development Programme News Today

An excerpt from ‘India’s Forgotten Country: A View From the Margins’, by Bela Bhatia.

    what dr. m.s. swaminathan meant to india and indians is something that cannot be captured in a few words. so immense was his contribution to indian science and india’s food security. as the nation mourns his loss at the ripe

The IRDP alone accounted for 40 per cent of the losses incurred by commercial banks in rural lending in India. By the end of the 1980s, great concern began to be expressed about public sector banks' low capital base, low profitability, and the high percentage of non-performing assets, whose earnings were invariably lower than their loan losses and transaction costs. They required continual refinancing and recapitalization by apex institutions. The final nail in the coffin was the official l...

According to the head of Barbados' largest agricultural organisation, increased meat prices was and is inevitable.  "[You] can't get away from paying more," remarked chief executive officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society, James Paul dur

The agriculture department checks companies selling bogus and spurious products.