Farm income can go up by Rs 1,939 crore on one condition
India can achieve this if it replaces 1 per cent of the area under food grains with horticulture
Union Budget 2022-23: Agriculture sees little cause for cheer
Overall allocation for agriculture has risen marginally but schemes for crop insurance, MSP have seen a dip in funds this budget
Republic’s task cut out: Back India’s farmers, don’t go after them
The focus needs to be steadfast on India’s agrarian crisis and problems faced by farmers, not on what happened or didn’t on …
India’s declining rural income pulls downs global economic growth: IMF
International Monetary Fund says downgrade of global economy due to India’s dipping growth rates
NYAY a positive step: UBI pilot study lead researcher
Calling it a good intiative, Sarath Davala questions how the Congress will implement such a scheme
Consult us on linking agriculture with MGNREGA: Farmers write to PM
Rashtriya Kisan Mahashangha demands farmers's involvement in deliberations over use of MGNREGA in farm sector
Water, Marathwada women’s woe: No brides for farmers as families look for city matches
Access to water, better infra drive marriage prospects as women yearn for more 'comfortable' lives
Doubling trouble: It’s mid-2022; is it good days yet for farm incomes?
The Union government's claim about being on track to double farmers' income sounds hollow as it has not even spent the allocated budget for …
Union Budget 2022-23: What India really needs
The consensus among economists and experts: The large but voiceless vulnerable sections need government protection and they need it now.
Climate change disrupts the goal of doubling farmers’ income
According to the just tabled Economic Survey, the government needs to implement “radical” actions to ensure the Prime Minister’…
'UBI can help people plan their lives properly'
As govt announces basic income for small farmers in its interim budget 2019, Down To Earth talks to Sarath Davala, who led a pilot study on UBI …
Women, youth incur higher farm income losses due to heat stress, floods: FAO report
This happens because their capacity to react and adapt to extreme weather events is unequal
As told to Parliament (February 9, 2024): Cancer cases on the rise in India
All that was discussed in the House through the day
India’s richest 5% spent 8-10 times its poorest; agri household expenditure lower than rural avg for 1st time: NSSO
Household spending increased since 1999-2000; disadvantaged sections in rural, urban India spent lowest
Simply Put: Indian farm income & all that gas
Simply Put: Farm income
Simply Put: Understanding moisture content
Simply Put: Crop insurance
Simply Put: Food inflation
Payment for ecosystem services can be a tool for guaranteed farm income: experts
According to experts, farmers should be paid for the ecosystem services they provide
Simply put: Indian farmers’s (para) freedom
An old elegy for a new season
Assurance of a normal monsoon doesn’t decide agricultural performance anymore
Modi talks of 10,000 farmer producer organisations. Will that double income?
Agricultural experts not confident farm income will double by 2022 as targeted
Union Budget 2020-21: Not one to double farmers' income
Last year's allocartion goes unspent; this year's raise less than 3%
As told to Parliament (June 25, 2019): Fewer claim settlements didn't affect farmers