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Agriculture

Drought and livestock

Posted on: 13 Jul, 2012
As livestock economy becomes larger than the foodgrain economy, government’s conventional drought management strategy needs an overhaul More than the country’s stock market, it is the livestock economy to which Prime Minister’s appeal of unleashing the “animal spirit” is applicable. Particularly when the country faces the threat of a severe drought.

Organic Universe

Issue Date: Jul 31, 2012
It is a universe of its own—an expanding universe that has its own producers and consumers, its entrepreneurs, its markets, its passionate aficionados of scientists and evangelists. It is a universe that is governed by a different set of regulations and plays strictly by the rules, for the most part.

Science and Technology - Briefs

Issue Date: Jul 31, 2012
Chemistry From nature’s basket

Letters - July 31, 2012

Issue Date: Jul 31, 2012
Backdoor trade The write-up, “Death on mounds of a bumper crop” (July 1-15, 2012), is a realistic analysis of farmers’ woes in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. I have quit my corporate life to start farming. When I reached Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh in May, I saw many people making temporary shelters on their tractors or heaps of wheat and waiting outside procurement centres.

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Rathiba's father committed suicide on harvest day. The season's produce would not have allowed him to repay his loans   Read full story: Death on mounds of a bumper crop Photograph by: Sayantoni Palchoudhuri

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

Kalli, wife of Basant lal, at her residence after attending her husband's last rites   Read full story: Death on mounds of a bumper crop Photograph by: Sayantoni Palchoudhuri

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

The Kisan Credit Card allows a loan of up to Rs 1 lakh without a farmer having to mortgage his land. But many banks still demand land as collateral. Basant Lal's son shows his father's Kisan Credit Card, which was used to avail a loan of less than Rs 1 lakh. Lal was asked to mortgage his land. Fearing he would lose land, Lal killed himself   Read full story: Death on mounds of a bumper crop Photograph by: Sayantoni Palchoudhuri

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

The government is delaying the process of procurement, which is forcing the farmers to sell their produce at throwaway rates to private traders   Read full story: Death on mounds of a bumper crop Photograph by: Sayantoni Palchoudhuri

Bitter returns of a bumper harvest

There is no work at the government procurement centres; officials claim gunny bags are in short supply   Read full story: Death on mounds of a bumper crop Photograph by: Sayantoni Palchoudhuri
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