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‘Corrupt and inefficient’ PDS gobbling up Rs.25,000 crore subsidy
NREG effect- No farm workers even after doubling wages
Profiteering in pulses- 50% profit margin -–Busn. Line
Agflation, causes & Curative Measures Needed -
K. Ramasubba Reddy
‘Farming is the riskiest profession' Prof.
M.S.Swaminathan
Acute poverty in BIMARU, WB and Orissa, Kerala & Punjab better off
‘NREGS resulted in increase in cost of cultivation’ Mahendra Dev, Chairman, CACP
Stunted farm growth as a result of long term neglect
Excessive groundwater drawal and rapidly falling water tables
‘Continuing duty-free sugar import means destroying farmers in India’,
O.P. Dhanuka
Govt raises support price for pulses, no increase in paddy and cotton support prices despite increase in costs
What needs to be done to boost agricultural growth?
Kausik Basu, CEA
ICT applications in farming benefits Farmers:
Chengal Redy
Near Zero Agri GDP Growth FY 10
Stagnant State of Pulses Production
Funds Diversion & Cost overruns in irrigation benefit programmes –CAG
Foodgrain output down by 7% in 2009-10
Debt relief for Coffee growers
Tardy growth in Agri Credit @ 11% up to Feb FY 10
Govt hikes cane FRP to Rs 139/qtl for 2010-11 season
Can there be food security when farmers' livelihoods are in jeopardy?
Food Prices soar by 18%, but farmers get only 6% , Traders grab 12% of price raise
World Water Day-Polluted water kills more people than war:
UN
100 lakh tonnes wheat rotting in the open
BUDGET BLUES- Modest Allocation to Agriculture
Advantage- Conservation farming -
K. Ramasubba Reddy
Is the Budget Pro-Farmer or Pro-Industrialist?
Plantation crop insurance scheme on the anvil
Budget for Farm Productivity & Food Security
Halt to release of Bt Brinjal hurts Seed Research
Insignificant Increase in Agri Credit
Farm incomes decline by 30%-Yet 40% Pay hike for Govt Staff
Farm suicides- Nearly 2 lakh since 1997-
P. Sainath
Farmers do not get even a third of what consumers pay -
IFPRI
Surging SGDP Growth Trends in Bihar & other Lagging States
Union Budget- 2010-11-CIFA PROPOSALS_6.1.10 and Fed of Oil Seeds Growers
Five-fold increase in Inter-State Income Disparities
Credit to small farmers is decreasing
Climate Change Deal-Far from what the earth needs
Foodflation Zooms to 19%- Govt. Groping
Climate Change Impact on Indian Agriculture
India and Climate Change Impact
Food inflation over 17%-Onions and vegetable prices soar
Urad & Poultry prices soar 15% in just one week
(un) ‘fair price’ for sugar cane withdrawn-Victory for Farmers
Food inflation- Potatoes 100%, Onions-40%
A Measly Rs2% increase in Wheat MSP a “Cruel Joke”
Cane growers Caned, Paddy growers Punished
New seeds and farm practices to boost yields
Agl credit down by Rs 9,000 crore- Gaping Credit Gap -
K. Ramasubba Reddy
Bt brinjal gets biotech regulator’s approval
Farmers joining hands with Charted Accountants
Poor Governance-Money down the drain
FAREWELL TO FARMING
Power-Perspective, Prospects & Problems
Flood damage Rs 32,000 crore, displaces over 18 lakh people
FLOOD HAVOC in A.P & KARNATAKA
Irrigation-Perspective, Problems&Solutions -
K.Ramasubba Reddy
Kharif loan disbursements down 30 per cent
Save that Drop of Water
40% Farmers want to quit Farming-NCAP Study
‘Rural road projects are hotbed of corruption’ P M
Father of the "green revolution" Norman Borlaug Passes away
System of rice intensification technique (SRI) boosts paddy yield
YSR Saga- A Transformed Transformational Leader
Declining Annual Rate of Growth of Area under irrigation
Only 27 Paise out of One Rupee reach the Poor
Satellite-based estimates of alarming groundwater depletion at 4 cm per year
‘Impact of Draught would not be Much on GDP’!, Mindset of Ahluwalia
States fail to utilise 14.8 million ha of irrigation potential
Rain Deficit-141 districts drought-hit, P M-Agl GDP Est down by 0.5%, RBI Survey
Measures needed to take care of Rain Deficit
60 MT foodgrains needed to Sustain Food Security
- M. S. Swaminathan
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