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M S Swaminathan
Veggies delight
@Richard20711534 Issue Date: Apr 15, 2013
Ram Oraon blames his grandfather for his frail health and for much of his life spent battling poverty. He has watched his two brothers die young. “They always had poor health,” says the 60-year-old marginal farmer from Malhan Bhuiyadih village near Ranchi.
'Space missions can change the technology environment of a country'
Issue Date: Jan 8, 2013
Why Periyar reserve is India's best-managed protected area
Issue Date: Nov 19, 2012
On how Periyar Tiger Reserve got the award of being the best-managed protected area in India
Interviewee:
Sanjayan Kumar
PM should head food security bill: M S Swaminathan
Issue Date: May 25, 2012
Agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan has called for setting up a body headed by the prime minister for effective execution of the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) once it is enacted. All chief ministers should be members of this board, he added.
Kind to cash
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
It is logical for India to be one of the few countries to spend about two per cent of its gross domestic product on the social sector. After all it hosts the world’s largest number of poor. But it sounds illogical that nearly three-fourths of it is the cost of reaching development to the poor. To reach one rupee of development, India spends Rs 3.65, according to its own official estimate. To put it in perspective, India needs to triple its development budget to ensure each rupee currently allotted reaches the intended beneficiary.
Rajasthan scraps seed pacts
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2011
ON NOVEMBER 4, the Rajasthan government called seven seed companies to its offices in Jaipur to give them the bad news: the memorandums of agreement (MoUs) signed last year to collaborate on agriculture research had been scrapped after being in limbo for 15 months. The public-private partnership (PPP) envisaged in the agreements was comprehensive and of far-reaching significance, at least in the case of one, that with Monsanto Company of the US, the world’s largest purveyor of seeds and biotechnology.
'Contract farming and PPP can rev agricultural economy'
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2011
Agriculture experts, industry representatives and the Union minister of state for food and consumer affairs on Thursday called for reforms in the agriculture sector to improve rural economy. They had gathered for an agriculture leadership summit on the theme 'policy reforms for farm growth'.
Farmers feel left out
Issue Date: Mar 31, 2011
A LOOMING food crisis in the world and high food inflation rates at home made Pranab Mukherjee’s proposals to boost agriculture in his 2011 budget more keenly watched than usual. These are factors that clearly weighed with the finance minister who repeatedly said that his principal concern this year has been the continuing high food prices. The squeeze on the consumer who did not benefit from the seasonal fall in prices was a recurring theme in his speech.
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A short stop motion that shows all the schemes that a human being (woman) can avil of in her lifetime.New rules for coasts
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2011
The Union environment ministry has notified the new Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) regime, replacing the CRZ notification of 1991. The notification, which has come after years of heated debate and controversy pleases no group entirely—the developers see it as a further restriction of building and industrial activities along the coast, while fishers’ organisations complain it gives in to builders and does not protect their interests sufficiently.
