While private companies will get to utilise ICAR's vast network, collaboration likely to affect nature of services provided by ICAR and agriculture extension functionaries
This technology will raise cultivation costs by monopolising the seed-agrochemical market and may lead to more robust, herbicide-resistant weeds in the future, endangering rice production
CDP has the potential to benefit farmers; however, asymmetric power relations can make farmer-producer organisations captive markets for the goods produced and marketed by big companies
The real question is not whether we value the girl child in principle, but whether our commitment and actions consistently enable her to learn, speak, choose and lead
As protests are announced and the bill moves forward, the core question remains: is rural employment still a right, or is it becoming a centrally planned welfare programme?