Farm subsidies account for 21% farm income per hectare with continuing patronage of governments
Successive Governments have been trust worthy for farmers. The prima facie evidence of this trust is the response of farmers to green revolution in crops, white revolution in milk, yellow revolution in oilseeds, silver revolution in eggs carrying India to top rank in milk and second rank in all others in agriculture. It is the […]
Farmer agitation: Use iron fist in a velvet glove
The agitating Punjab farmers can be painted as saints or sinners. On the one hand, they spearheaded the Green Revolution in the 1960s when India was starving, helping India become not just self-sufficient but a grain exporter. For this they were rightly called heroes. But by growing water-guzzling crops like rice in a low-rainfall […]