Home truth of Indian agriculture: Farm income declined in India in 7 years

The average monthly income per farm household (considering only the paid out expenditure) is not the same as ‘net income / receipt earned …

Global agricultural productivity not growing as fast as food demand: Report

Accelerate investments in agricultural research and development to increase and preserve productivity gains, especially for small farmers

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

Private and government: Who is investing how much on agriculture?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants more private investment in agriculture, but it is already sustaining on private investment

Cervical cancer is a disease of inequity: here’s how to save 60 million lives

Providing the pap smear for detecting cervical cancer to all women requires a complex infrastructure, that has made it prohibitively expensive in …

Climate Migration primarily in middle income, agri-dependent countries: Study

Study can go long way in pinpointing future hot spots for climate-induced migration

Consumer demand doesn't let countries ban import of cheap used cars

Despite taking measures, low- and middle-income countries are struggling to stave off cheap vehicle dumping

Simply Put: Indian farm income & all that gas

Simply Put: Farm income

Decline in mobility post-demonetisation spurred present economic crisis: Pronab Sen

While we hear a slowdown in demand in the urban corporate sector, the problem actually lies in rural India

National-level multi-state co-operative organic society: Can it help improve farm income?

Overall, the proposed society will provide a wide range of organic farming-related services; however, key details are missing at the moment

Union Budget 2022-23: No mention of doubling farmers’ income in Sitharaman’s speech

Omission of references to doubling farmers’ speech surprising given that 2022 is the target year for the scheme

Gap between countries on animal protein consumption to widen by 2030: Report

While it will level off in high-income countries, it will increase in middle-income ones and remain the same in low-income countries

How India remains poor: ‘It will take 7 generations for India’s poor to reach mean income’

World Economic Forum’s latest report says social inequality negates gains from high economic growth

Every 9th person in the world went hungry last year: UN report

Around 700 million were exposed to severe food insecurity in 2018

Simply Put: Time to double farmer incomes

How forests can help in doubling farmers’ income

Forest rights, support for ecosystem services could be part of strategy to help farmers living in forests

Malaria cases, deaths begin stabilising after COVID disruption: WHO

While deaths came down to 619,000 in 2021 from 625,000 in the first year of the pandemic, it remained higher than the pre-pandemic level of 568,…

Modi talks of 10,000 farmer producer organisations. Will that double income?

Agricultural experts not confident farm income will double by 2022 as targeted

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

India lost nearly 5 million people to COVID-19, says WHO; that is 10 times the official figure

Some 14.9 million people died due to COVID-19 globally; that is three times the number reported

India’s natural farming push: Obvious measures ignored, points out Standing Committee

The country’s organic / natural farming coverage remains poor despite abundant indegenous resources

Only 11% low-income countries make their data open: World Bank report

Gaps in data on women and girls particularly severe; countries do not invest enough in public intent data systems, the report said

Simply Put: Understanding moisture content

Simply Put: Crop insurance