After Dec 11, agriculture has been pushed to the center stage of Indian politics. But will it usher in a new renaissance?

The writing was on the wall. The anger that rural Gujarat voters had exhibited in last year’s Gujarat Assembly elections, edging the ruling BJP overwhelmingly in the Saurashtra region, was a clear pointer to the serious agrarian distress that prevails...

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Direct Income Support is the need of the hour

Riding on the popularity of the Rythu Bandhu scheme, which provides Telangana farmers with a direct income support of Rs 8,000 per acre per year, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao romped home sweeping the electoral verdict in recent Assembly elections....

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Onion price crash: It's a bloodbath

Pic: LiveMintShreyas Aabhale is a young farmer from Sangamner in Ahmednagar district in Gujarat. This 21-year-old farmer was aghast when he found that he had earned only Rs 6 after selling 53.14 quintals of onions. In frustration, he sent a cheque of...

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With high productivity, assured irrigation, a higher MSP and loan waivers in progress, why are Punjab farmers dying?

At a farm widow congregation in Punjab A day after the massive farmer protest in New Delhi, hundreds of farmer widows had assembled at Mansa in Punjab. I sat there listening to the heart-rending testimonies of several farm widows, among the hundreds...

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India must keep agriculture out of RCEP

Map of the RCEP trade block --   From the webAt a time when the call for deglobalisation is gaining momentum and increasing protectionism has lead to pulling down of global growth in merchandise trade for the second quarter this year, India’s...

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