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  1. FDI will help the Indian farmer

    Posted by Chengal Reddy
    / September 16, 2012 / 3 Comments
    On behalf of farmers of India, we extend our grateful thanks to the Prime Minister for allowing FDI in agriculture (multi-brand retail). The farm sector growth was hampered because of lack of modern technologies, inadequate investments and restricted market policies. The liberalization initiated in 1991 propelled Indian service and industrial...

  2. `Nero’ Pawar fiddles as India prays for rain

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    / July 24, 2012 / 2 Comments
    India is staring at a 22 per cent rainfall deficit with states like Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, the worst affected. The storage in major reservoirs in 61 per cent of last year’s levels. Sowing has been lost in 80 lakh hectares. The immediate impact is likely to be on...

  3. Cancel environmental clearance

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    / February 29, 2012 /
    The East Coast Energy Pvt. Ltd. (ECEPL) project at Kakarapalli in Srikakulam district should not have been cleared in the first instance by the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for Thermal Projects of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) as it is wrongly located in a wetland. The National Environment Policy approved by the...

  4. Nothing political about my fast

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    / January 9, 2012 / 1 Comment
    By Y S Jaganmohan Reddy With a view to alleviate the lot of the hapless farmers, I am undertaking a two-day Rythu Deeksha at Armoor in Nizamabad district from Tuesday. The aim of this initiative is to bring to the Government’s notice the plight of the farming community in the...

  5. The obsession with farmer suicides

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    / December 13, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Archana Venkat The Press Council Chairman Justice Katju’s recent salvo has come over the front page coverage of actor Dev Anand’s recent demise. While you could argue that Dev Anand’s demise may not have technically qualified for front page news, I think, neither does farmer suicides (as was stressed...

  6. Farming between two lines

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    / November 20, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir All through his growing up years and later, my father has enjoyed the reputation of being an ace at mathematics and logic in family circles, and would love to throw little `puzzle’ challenges to us. One that came back to me suddenly the other day was: How...

  7. Halt Reliance, save farmers

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    / August 13, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By E A S Sarma We have cautioned the Andhra Pradesh government time and again about the impending agricultural crisis arising from `land subsidence’ in the Krishna Godavari Basin due to natural gas development by Reliance company. Enough evidence has already been found in the area on the sinking of...

  8. Farmers on a holiday

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    / August 6, 2011 /
    By Narasimha Reddy   Economists would say our GDP will grow with more people holidaying. But farmers taking a crop holiday is a disaster. What started off as a reaction at one of the protest meetings over the tardy, or zero, procurement of grains by the government is snowballing and...

  9. Ifs and buts of predicting the monsoon

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    / July 3, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Narasimha Reddy   The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has been tracking the progress of the monsoon since it landed on the Kerala coast. Based on this, farmers prepared their lands, purchased seeds and started sowing. A significant majority is dependent on rainfed agriculture. Cotton is now a major crop...

  10. Fire in the belly

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    / June 19, 2011 / 3 Comments
    “Telangana lo vanta, dilli lo manta” or “Cooking in Telangana, Fire in Delhi” was the slogan. But the heat of the June sun, the smoke and heat from the cooking fire around which they stood and the excitement of performing live before television cameras, was confusing the women party workers...

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