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Herculean task ahead
1 April 2016 3:01 AM ISTAfter adjusting for rising costs, an Indian farmer’s income effectively rose 5 percent per year over the decade (2003-2013), according to an...
Water plan that failed millions of farmers
16 March 2016 2:22 AM ISTA two-decade-old central programme to finish incomplete irrigation projects has failed some 66 million Indian farmers and halted the economic progress...
Falling back on the traditional gold
26 Feb 2016 2:55 AM ISTIndia’s gold imports surged 85 percent in January 2016, indicating how, as stock markets decline and some economic indicators worsen in the run up to...
Why the drop in global oil prices is not for you
9 Feb 2016 3:38 AM ISTRecord production in the US, weakened demand from the Eurozone and emerging economies like China and Brazil, and Iran’s entry into the international...
Maharashtra struggles with terrible drought
29 Jan 2016 2:50 AM ISTVasudev Lokhande is the beneficiary of an ambitious Maharashtra government programme to permanently transform the lives of farmers devastated by a...
Need better solutions for decent future
27 Jan 2016 3:10 AM ISTYou would not think there was a worsening farm crisis in India’s second-largest agricultural economy if you met Jairam Jadhav in the central region of...