Legalising Minimum Support Price in India: An Apolitical Approach
Legalising MSP in India is biggest challenge faced by farmers. Promulgating Farm Bills and then withdrawing them is raising questions.
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Agriculture
Fishing in Troubled Waters: Lake Kolleru
“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent thinking”, said Aldo Leopold. Lake Kolleru is showing signs of poor water quality and habitat deterioration. There is an urgent need to ascertain the levels of habitat destruction, over-exploitation, and encroachments in the once peerless fishermen’s paradise and birds’ heaven.
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Can NEP-2020 show the way to Modi Government on Farm Laws Issue?
Modi government has made repeal of three farm laws a prestige issue. There are lessons in how NEP-2020 received wide support from all stakeholders after the 2016 policy draft was widely criticized and the government went back to the drafting table. Modi-II regime can learn from Modi-I regime’s experiences on engaging meaningfully with stakeholders when working on crucial policy reforms.
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Where are Topsy Turvy Farmer Protests Heading?
Topsy turvy farmer protests need to be handled intelligently, else other farmer miseries could catalyze the movement.
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Implications of Migration from Rural Areas
With the improving education qualifications in the young population, they tend to move towards urban centres for more valuable occupations. This leaves behind unskilled labour in rural areas having limited knowledge of new technologies. With increasing amenities in urban areas escalating the industrial sector, the pressure is building upon rural areas. Migrants are enticed to leave the villages to fulfil the needs of urban people and industries.
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Perception, Reality, and Optimality: The MSP Composite in relation to the Farm Acts
Across space or over time, farmers should be able to trade freely with certainty. If MSP were a panacea, we would not be having any conversation, in the first place, about doubling farmers’ income more than five decades on!
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Farm Laws Debate: A Bit of Analytical Rigour and Global Best Practices
Farm laws in India should be seen in perspective of global best practices as the farmers need enabling to trade for getting the best returns.
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Farm Acts 2020: Farmer Unions and the Logic of Survival
The commentary around any policy change in our country, unfortunately, seems to boil down to who understands India better. The resulting discussion often devolves into adversarial claims about the ‘real vs. imagined’, with all sides, of course, claiming the real for themselves. Hence, this article intends to focus more on the drivers of the protests rather than forecasting the possible outcomes of the policy change.
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Farm Act 2020 and Smart, Strategic Farmers
There are over 100 million farmers in India, and no policy is likely to make all of them happy or upset. The protests, therefore, should only be surprising to people who believe that there exist win-win outcomes in which every stakeholder is better off.
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Indian Farmers and Agri Sector Bills: Let us Tour the Issue
Agri sector bills aim to increase competitiveness in agri supply chain and freedom of choice to sell their produce to Indian farmers. But, will there be a level playing field for farmers?
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Agri Bills: Why are Farmers Protesting even after PM’s Assurance?
The government needs to view the issue through the perspective of a farmer. The small farmers of today need safeguard from exploitation along with greater choices. Although the bill promises them more choices, it doesn’t attempt to strengthen the safeguards. This is what the farmers of today are protesting against!
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