23 May, 2007 in BPL, agrarian, agriempire, andolan, australia, banks, bengali, buffer, bumper, buniyad, business, cereals, cheating, commerce, corporation, cotton, cricket, cricket minister, crop, crops, democracy, diaspora, diet, distress, diversification, economy, elections, employment, farm suicides, farming, festival, fibre, food, food policy, food security, global, gujarat, harvest, hindi, hindustan, india, indian, international, investment, jobs, joshi, kharif, krishi, maharashtra, manipulation, marathi, marketing, markets, ministers, pawar, policy, politics, procurement, punjab, punjabi, quintal, rbi, rural, sainath, shetkari, sowing, suicides, tracker, traders
Wheat Imports : Subverting Procurement, Cheating Farmers – Bhaskar Goswami
For the second year in the running, India is importing wheat. Last year the government justified imports on account of lower production. This year it is being justified in the name of higher prices for farmers.
In order to meet the buffer stock requirements, the government has [...]
23 May, 2007 in BPL, CACP, NDA, PPP, UPA, africa, agrarian, agriempire, american, andhra, andolan, approval, argument, associates, australia, bahujan, banks, bengali, bhavan, body, bonus, buffer, bumper, buniyad, business, cereals, chandigarh, commerce, contracts, cotton, cows, cricket, cricket minister, crop, crops, dairy, data, debt, democracy, devinder sharma, diet, displacement, distress, district, diversification, ecology, economy, elections, employment, ethnic, factory, farm suicides, farming, federal, festival, fibre, food, food policy, food security, forum, global, goa, googly, harvest, haryana, hindi, hindustan, hyderabad, imf, income, india, indian, international, intervention, jharkhand, justification, kharif, khedut, krishi, lok, madhya pradesh, maharashtra, manifesto, manipulation, mantralaya, marathi, marketing, markets, migration, ministers, ministry, nandigram, ofai, oxfam, package, pawar, policy, politics, pressure, private, procurement, punjab, punjabi, quintal, rajasthan, rajya, rbi, record, reddy, regional, relief, retail, rupantar, rural, ryot, sabha, sainath, salaries, samaj, seeds, sharad, shetkari, singur, social, sowing, stock, stocks, suicides, tamil nadu, telugu, tracker, trade, traders, urban, uttar pradesh, vidarbha, votes, world, wsf, wto, zubani
Politics of Indian Farm Suicides -
http://farmsuicides.blogspot.com/2007/05/dry-cow-therapy-rural-distress-indian.html
Dry Cow Therapy, Rural Distress, Indian Economists : New Agriculture Strategy
From Second Green Revolution to Milking the Cow Dry -
The concerned Indian Prime Minister, has been left searching for the right answers from all the agricultural experts, while his own Agriculture Minister ignores the suicides from his home state and [...]
20 May, 2007 in BPL, CACP, KRRS, PPP, africa, agrarian, agriempire, andhra, andolan, approval, argument, associates, australia, banks, bengali, bhavan, body, bonus, bt, buffer, bumper, buniyad, business, canada, cardamom, cashew, cereals, certification, cheating, coconut, commerce, contracts, corporation, cotton, coupons, cricket, cricket minister, crop, crops, data, davos, debt, democracy, diaspora, diet, displacement, distress, diversification, economy, elections, employment, ethnic, factory, farm suicides, farming, federal, festival, fibre, food, food policy, forum, global, googly, gujarat, harvest, hectares, hindi, hindustan, hyderabad, imf, income, india, indian, international, intervention, investment, jobs, joshi, justification, kannada, kharif, korea, krishi, loans, lok, maharashtra, malayalam, manipulation, mantralaya, marketing, markets, may, ministers, molasses, nandigram, ofai, package, pawar, pds, pfa, planting, policy, politics, private, profit, punjab, punjabi, quintal, rajya, rationale, rbi, reddy, relief, rupantar, rural, ryot, sabha, sainath, seeds, sharad, shetkari, singur, sowing, suicides, taluka, tamil nadu, telugu, tenders, tensions, tonnes, tracker, trade, traders, training, unemployment, urban, vidarbha, votes, world, world cup, zubani
Subsides for sugar exporters and love for wheat importers – Googly bowling by heavy weight tough talking Indian Cricket Minister :
For the second year in the running, India is importing wheat. Last year the government justified imports on account of lower production. This year it is being justified in the name of higher prices for [...]
8 May, 2007 in agrarian, business, canada, commerce, crops, devinder sharma, elections, employment, farming, food, food policy, food security, forum, global, harvest, hindi, hindustan, income, india, indian, international, investment, jobs, kharif, krishi, punjab, punjabi, rural, sabha, sainath, shetkari, sowing, suicides
Escape from Punjab – By Devinder Sharma
I was at a dinner with a Punjabi family in the outskirts of London. Mohinder Singh’s youngest brother who had only a few months before made it to England was visibly upset: “You are the only Punjabi I know who keeps on going back to India. Why don’t you [...]
7 May, 2007 in agrarian, aid, andhra, banks, bengali, buniyad, business, crops, debt, distress, economy, elections, farming, food, global, gujarat, hindi, hindustan, india, indian, investment, joshi, kamma, kannada, kharif, krishi, loans, maharashtra, malayalam, marathi, marketing, markets, ministers, oriya, pawar, policy, politics, punjabi, rbi, reddy, retail, rural, sainath, taluka, telugu, trade, vidarbha, zubani
In Andhra Pradesh – After a lull of some years, farmers are being jailed for debt in Andhra Pradesh. Even those in drought-hit districts who cannot repay their loans. Farm unions see the banks as driving a dangerous and explosive process which lets off crorepati defaulters but jails bankrupt farmers owing a few thousand rupees.
Story [...]
4 May, 2007 in agrarian, aid, banks, bollgard, bt, business, commerce, cotton, crops, data, davos, debt, democracy, distress, economy, elections, farming, food, global, harvest, india, indian, investment, joshi, kharif, krishi, loans, maharashtra, marketing, markets, ministers, pawar, policy, politics, profit, rbi, retail, rural, seeds, sharad, sowing, suicides, trade, traders, urban, vidarbha, votes, zubani
IIM Lucknow is organizing a conference on agri business, food industry in association with Tennessee State University and South Carolina State University. It is titled International Conference on “Agribusiness and Food Industry in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Challenges” to be held August 10-12, 2007, at Indian Institute of Management campus in Lucknow.
It seems that Indian [...]
4 May, 2007 in agrarian, banks, bollgard, buniyad, business, commerce, cotton, crop, crops, data, debt, democracy, distress, economy, elections, farming, food, global, harvest, india, package, relief, vidarbha
Waiting for Godot – The Prime Minister of India’s much hyped Second Green Revolution, Vidarbha Relief Package, private participation in agriculture, and similar agricultural and rural infrastructure initiatives seem to be like the proverbial magician’s pigeons. No one knows how they are released, no one knows how they disappear.
A Times of India report from Rajeev [...]
2 May, 2007 in aid, business, democracy, economy, elections, farming, food, global, india, indian, investment, marketing, markets, policy, politics, retail, rural, trade, urban, votes
India Value Proposition – Polished Smut
The Indian Billionaires of Bangalore have found the mantra for marketing India. As per this breed of Incredible Indian Billionaires, India is a unique destination for global finance and business.
After the Shining India, these Indian billionaires have offloaded the India strategy of marketing India to the world. At Davos, World [...]
2 May, 2007 in aid, business, davos, democracy, economy, elections, farming, food, india, indian, investment, policy, politics, retail, rural, trade, urban
Politics of Indian Farm Suicides – Bystander Agriculture Ministry
http://www.farmsuicides.blogspot.com/
Indian Rural Women Narratives – http://www.zubani.blogspot.com/
Indian Agriculture Ministry Bystander in BT Cotton Sowing Plans of 2007 -
THE RECORD 350 COTTON FARMERS SUICIDES IN VIDARBHA : IT’S ONCE AGAIN BT COTTON MASS SOWING IN VIDARBHA
Nagpur, 01 MAY 2007 :
The cotton growing area of western Vidarbha under severe agrarian [...]
