Some recent developments in India’s agri-related laws might make former finance minister P. Chidambaram’s infamous dream of seeing “only 15 per cent of Indians in villages” come true much faster than anyone thought possible.

Moves are afoot to ensure large-scale displacement of farmers and agricultural workers — the most blatant move is already underway in Andhra Pradesh, under Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy.

An experiment under the garb of “farmers cooperative”...

Lack of consistency in building up effective response mechanisms to deal with the vagaries of nature, like floods and droughts, has been the bane of the Indian establishment for the past six decades.

“It appears we have failed to create systems to cope up with events like floods and drought.

We get into action only when hit by the problem and forget about devising long-term strategies to deal with it.

The only way to make the Indian economy immune...

To describe the current situation on the agricultural front as “grave” or “serious” would be an understatement. What’s worse is that, as is usually the case in this country, it is the rural poor who are the worst sufferers in any drought. The government cannot ignore its responsibility to mitigate the condition of the worst afflicted by the speedy provision of emergency food and water supplies. There is a flicker of hope that the rains will come in good measure soon after August 15, now less than...

Cows from Rajastan travel on the Golden Quadrilateral highway to find water and grazing areas
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Indolent cows languidly chewing their cud while befuddled motorists honk and maneuver their vehicles around them is an image as stereotypically Indian as saffron-clad holy men and the Taj Mahal. Now, however, India's ubiquitous cows — of which there are 283 million, more than anywhere else in the world — are assuming...

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5 farmers end lives in one week


Kadapa Sept. 3: Unable to repay debts, five farmers committed suicide in Kadapa district in last one week. On August 27, three farmers of Kasinayana and Porumamilla mandals committed suicide, and on Tuesday, Ravikumar, 35, of Papireddygaripalle...