Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Understand the economic design that pushes farmers out of agriculture

In case you missed watching it, here is the video of an interview in Hindi that I gave to popular #AajTak TV Channel, that went viral.खेती का चक्रव्यूह 2/5To know more, click on the links below.खेती का चक्रव्यूह :- 1/5खेती का चक्रव्यूह 3/5 :-खेती का...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Burning the Paddy Stubble

Not realising that much of the agrarian distress is because of the unnecessary burden of expensive farm machines, both the frontline agricultural states of Punjab and Haryana are working overtime to sell more machines to farmers. As the paddy harvesting...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

How To Survive Public School With Less Chance Of Discipline -What You Need To Tell Your Kids BEFORE They Go To School

By Michelle Ball, California Education Attorney for Students since 1995Over the years, I have had my eyes opened far larger than the average parent on just what can lead to school discipline due to all the terrible stories I have heard in my law practice. ...
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Saturday, October 20, 2018

What should farmers do when market prices are less than even the cost of production?

Waiting for a good priceWhat do you expect farmers to do when open market prices fall to less than half the announced Minimum Support Price (MSP)? What should the farmers do when market prices are less than even the cost of production?  This is...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The basic problem is that agriculture is not considered as an economic activity

In a tweet to mark Gandhi Jayanti, Prof M S Swaminathan wrote: “Once Mahatma Gandhi was asked by the National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore, to fill up its visitor’s book. Under the column occupation, he wrote ‘Farmer’. And ironically it was on...
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Why shouldn’t the owner of the companies who default on paying back the bank loans not treated the same way as the farmers?

In April this year, Karamjeet Singh, a farmer from village Nandgarh Kotra in Bathinda district in Punjab, was arrested after his cheque of Rs 4.34-lakh bounced, reports Indian Express. Still in jail, he is amongst hundreds of farmers who have been sent...
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