by Pritam Arora | Nov 15, 2022 | Agriculture
Self-sufficiency in Agriculture The darkest scar of colonialism in India probably came in its final days when Bengal suffered a great famine in the early 1940s due to the unfair policies of the British government in the backdrop of World War II. The famine, in...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Nov 1, 2022 | Agriculture
Grapes, the New Gold Nearly one century ago, an innovative farmer entrepreneur by the name of Ramrao J Gaikwad started the commercial production of grapes in the town of Ojhar in the vicinity of Nashik. The year was 1925, and there has been no looking back since then....
by Bishakha Dey | Oct 17, 2022 | Agriculture
Coconut Cultivation to be Promoted in a Big Way The Modi government has decided to provide all possible assistance to the farmers in the coastal states to promote coconut cultivation in the country, according to Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri...
by Bishakha Dey | Oct 6, 2022 | Agriculture
PM-KISAN Providing Income Support to Farmers Farmers of India have always played a vital role in the economic development of our country. Over the last eight years, there has been a paradigm shift in the Indian agriculture sector. The government has focused on...
by Sanjeev Chopra, IAS (Retd) | Sep 23, 2022 | Agriculture
NAFED, IFFCO, ICAR can fix India’s food security by going global In 2008, when I was the Agriculture Secretary to the government of West Bengal, I was invited to speak at a meeting of the International Co-operative Alliance and the Gulf Cooperation Council in Abu...
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