So too a full-time PDS minister!
Also a full-time co-operatives minister!

Agriculture is becoming more and more hopeless and unviable. It is a great national shame what farmers and their families undergo in Vidharba.

A fairly successful farmer who was to get the Krishi Pandit award in Bidar district committed suicide leaving behind three daughters and a son, all in prime age. What a great shame, one wonders. His mistake? He exceeded the district average production...

All the English publications are newspapers or magazines and all are urban-focused.
No educated Indian thinks of himself or herself as interested in agriculture or rural India. Those of the more prominent ones, both men and women, who are often seem vocal and appear on TV screens, what is called the “page three people” are all well-off people, have government connections, sit on the committees, or have taken up some public causes as they fit and they run either NGOs or other non-profit or...