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  1. Kerala will never compromise on endosulfan

    Posted by Oommen Chandy
    / April 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Oommen ChandyIt is a long wait for the results of the assembly elections in Kerala, the first that it is so long in our state. We voted on April 13 and the results will be out on May 13. A shorter gap between polling and counting would have been...

  2. A tenth-class fail on endosulfan

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    / April 29, 2011 / Leave a comment
      The first person I called after I got the news that India had agreed at Geneva to phase out endosulfan, was Sivanna. This farmer from rural Karnataka cheerfully approved of the Indian government’s decision.   “Let them ban it amma. They will be doing us some good.’’   I...

  3. Let’s act now on endosulfan

    Posted by Rima Kallingal
    / April 28, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Rima Kallingal This Monday, many of us in different cities and towns of Kerala sat on an one-day fast to focus attention on the suffering of thousands of farmers and farm labour due to spraying of endosulfan. In the past many years, four to five thousand people in Kerala,...

  4. Seed of the problem

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    / April 21, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Narasimha Reddy   Seed companies demand that price for Bollgard-I and Bollgard-II (Bt cotton seeds) should be increased for the kharif season. They wanted a hike of Rs.200 on BG-I (from Rs.650 to Rs.850) and Rs.300 on BG-II (from Rs 750 to Rs 1,050). Seed companies have been saying...

  5. Protecting the farmer

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    / April 14, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Narasimha Reddy   The seed is the most important determinant of agricultural production. Provision of good quality seeds to the Indian farmer is a key factor in the growth of Indian agriculture.   The Seed Act of 1966, the Seeds Control Order of 1983, Seeds Policy of 1988 and...

  6. Gram Swaraj could be the solution

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    / April 10, 2011 / Leave a comment
    The recent fast by Anna Hazare once again brought corruption into public focus. Interestingly, I received a mail which invited those, who had never offered a bribe or had taken a bribe, to join a support rally. This set me thinking.   There is this scene in a Telugu film,...

  7. Suicide-free farming, anyone?

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / January 16, 2011 / Leave a comment
    If we look at the GDP figures on account of agriculture for the last two decades, we find that it has all along been on decline. In 1990–91, it was 32%, in 2005-06 20% and in 2007–08, it came down to 17%. This situation is despite the fact that India...

  8. Wanted, a Pay commission for farmers

    Posted by ramoo
    / January 3, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Ramoo In 1996, I joined as an agriculture scientist at the Indian Council for Agriculture at Directorate of Oilseeds Research in Hyderabad. We used to work on castor, sunflower and safflower. My job was to coordinate the Frontline Demonstration of Improved technologies to farmers under the ‘Technology Mission on...

  9. Naidu in the fast lane

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    / December 23, 2010 / 1 Comment
    By Uma Sudhir   I went to see Chandrababu Naidu inside his room in Hyderabad’s NIMS hospital on Thursday afternoon. He was lying on his side on the bed, covered till the neck, no pillow to rest his head, his eyes on the door from where there were an unending...

  10. Why I am on an indefinite fast

    Posted by Nara Chandrababu Naidu
    / December 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    By Nara Chandrababu Naidu   Today is day 2 of my indefinite fast to demand justice to the farmers of Andhra Pradesh. The present kharif crop has been affected by heavy rainfall, also caused by a cyclone and another deep depression. This happened when the crop was in the final...

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