Categories for Agro Watch
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Holland Making Its Mark In Agribusiness
This essay is based on my recent visit to Holland with the Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar for the India Netherlands joint working group on agriculture. It is different from the conventional format of my column. Rather than a descriptive account... View Article
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Agonies Of Agricultural Workers
While the FAO and the global community connected with agriculture and food security have rightly drawn the attention of governments and civil society towards the need to strengthen tenure rights for small landholders, and their access to land, forest and... View Article
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Co-Ops Have Failed Can Fpcs Be A Viable Alternative?
That the co-op movement in India is not growing is quite clear. The share in agricultural credit, as well as in the marketing of produce is going down significantly. True the co-op movement still boasts of giants like Indian Farmers... View Article
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Integrated Chain For Fruits And Vegetables-II
Readers may recall that during the last onion crisis in January 2011, the government made a serious attempt to address the spiralling prices by importing onions form Pakistan, and directing Nafed and NCCF to retail onions through select outlets and... View Article
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Integrated Chain For Fruits And Vegetables
Your columnist has been entrusted with the task of envisioning an integrated value chain for fruits and vegetables in the country, taking into account the ground conditions as they exist, and the institutional and technology changes that can be introduced... View Article
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Investing Abroad In Agri Sector
It is now obvious from all accounts that ‘agricultural outsourcing’ as a phenomenon is here to stay, and that Indian entrepreneurs are not lagging behind their global peers in acquiring lands in third countries for production of food, flowers, fuel... View Article
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A PPP In Agriculture? —Part 2
Last time, the column had discussed PPPs in agriculture and the steps taken by the Government of India to ensure the practical roll-out during the next financial year. The response from the corporates and the state governments has been positive,... View Article
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A PPP In Agriculture?
Led by changing consumer demand preferences on account of rising incomes and changes in the demand pattern of household food basket in both urban and rural India, the agriculture produce landscape is undergoing a significant and rapid change. Concern for... View Article
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The Year Of Horticulture
The Ministry of Agriculture has decided to mark 2012 as the Year of Horticulture to acknowledge the salience and centrality of horticulture in the agricultural development of the country. As has been mentioned in these columns earlier, till very recently,... View Article
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A Budget For Agriculture
Even though the Union Budget will not be presented on February 28 this year on account of the elections in five states, this is an occasion to reflect on whether the Union and state governments will follow the Madhya Pradesh... View Article
