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Disconnect in farm governance: Bridge gap for sustainable growth

The triumphant legacy of Punjab’s agriculture remains an inspiration, a testament to the remarkable potential that resides within India’s heartland. However, as the clamour for progress grows louder and the challenges intensify, it is imperative to rectify the disjointed policies and governance that hinder the sector’s full potential.

The lasting impact of the Green Revolution, pioneered by Punjab, Haryana, and Western Uttar Pradesh, continues to resonate through India’s agricultural landscape, a testament to its enduring success in eradicating hunger and freeing the nation from imposed food dependency. (Getty Images)
Published on Sep 24, 2023 12:44 AM IST

At 6.80%, unemployment rate in India lowest in 6 months: Report

The unemployment rate in India dropped to a six month low on account of a boost in the agriculture sector due to steady monsoon rains.

Farmers busy sowing paddy in Prayagraj. (HT file)
Updated on Aug 01, 2022 10:03 PM IST
By | Written by Nisha Anand | Edited by Aryan Prakash

UP ropes in ‘progressive’ farmers from state to help raise farm incomes

These farmers will share their success stories and techniques with others at farmers’ fairs and seminars to be held at the local level.

From every district, the agriculture department will select 100 progressive farmers as role models for local farmers. They will also be given a platform to present their views, said the Uttar Pradesh government. (HT File photo)
Updated on Jan 04, 2021 12:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Lucknow | By

Why onion farmers often end up in tears

Onions present an interesting study. While they are not an essential commodity, last week, the Union government banned onion exports.

The fact that farmers lack the financial wherewithal to store crops, means that they are far less likely to have accumulated inventories to gain from these sudden spikes.(PTI)
Updated on Sep 23, 2020 09:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Punjab sows but will not reap

GUEST COLUMN Saying that the state can no longer impose a market fee on trade conducted in its own physical space is nothing short of a territorial invasion through legislative action. A veritable Trojan Act.

The soul of India lives in her villages, as was declared by the Mahatma. So, when laws are passed affecting the underlying substratum of agrarian life, there is bound to be turmoil. While legally permissible, the fact that the government first tried to sneak in these laws through ordinances as opposed to a properly debated legislation weakened confidence in them.(HT file photo)
Updated on Sep 21, 2020 09:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByAtul Nanda

Political economy of the opposition to agri reforms

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana, the richest agricultural states, which also account for the highest share of government procurement in India, are at the forefront of these protests.

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana, the richest agricultural states, which also account for the highest share of government procurement in India, are at the forefront of these protests.(HT Photo)
Updated on Sep 21, 2020 03:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Tracking monsoon variations across India

Wide variations in monsoon precipitation over time and regions, between highs and lows and rain deficits and surpluses aren’t beneficial for agriculture in a country where two-thirds of the population depend on farm incomes for a living. The output of summer crops such as rice, sugar, lentils and edible oil seeds depends on monsoon rains.

For India as a whole, a lot of rain seems to have fallen early in the season. For most of June, for example, the cumulative monsoon rainfall was in the “excess” category.(Arvind Yadav/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Aug 12, 2020 08:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAbhishek Jha

Extending PMGKY is the right step | HT Editorial

It will prevent hunger, help the poor save, and aid economic recovery

India’s poor spend more than half of their household budget on food(ANI)
Updated on Jun 30, 2020 07:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Can politics shape revival of economy after Covid-19?

The Indian economy is entering a contraction phase after a prolonged slowdown. Resources of both businesses and government were already stressed. India’s policy response amid the Covid-19 pandemic will also be an exercise in distributing very scarce resources across practically unlimited demands.

Farm workers in Noida thrash harvested paddy crop to separate the grains.(AP File Photo)
Updated on Jun 14, 2020 06:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByRoshan Kishore and Abhishek Jha

Soil health initiative weaning farmers off fertiliser overuse

Soil health cards, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2015, have cut the use of chemical fertilisers by up to 10%, according to the first study by the National Productivity Council.

Indian farmers have been overspraying subsidised chemical fertilisers on crops for decades, imperiling public health.(REUTERS)
Updated on Feb 23, 2020 04:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Budget: A four-point checklist for rural India

Reviving rural economy is key. Here is what the government can do

Unless the rural economy is rejuvenated, any sustained revival in mass incomes, and, therefore, demand, will continue to elude the Indian economy(Diwakar Prasad/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jan 22, 2020 07:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Raising farm incomes may top budget agenda

The Act imposes restrictions on the agricultural economy by limiting quantities traders can buy from farmers and hold as stock.

The Act imposes restrictions on the agricultural economy by limiting quantities traders can buy from farmers and hold as stock. (ANI Photo)
Updated on Jan 17, 2020 05:02 AM IST
Hindustasn Times, New Delhi | ByRajeev Jayaswal and Zia Haq

News updates from Hindustan Times: Food may get costlier due to global prices, kharif yield and all the latest news at this hour

Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion curated for you at 9 am. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

Lower output isn’t the only reason for relatively higher food prices. India’s net export of food items, i.e. the value of exports minus value of imports, is falling.(Getty Images / iStock)
Updated on Dec 18, 2019 08:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

The economic contraction | HT Editorial

There is a way out. Focus on the informal sector and rural incomes

The second factor at play is the squeeze on farm incomes through low inflation(AP)
Updated on Nov 12, 2019 06:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

The politics of onion price rise | HT editorial

Its price rise shows the trade off between inflation and farmer incomes

Even if left unattended, the onion price rally would have reversed in some time(Rahul Raut/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Sep 26, 2019 09:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

It’s a fact. We don’t want farmers to get rich | Opinion

India’s obsession with keeping food prices low, even when there’s no inflationary pressure, has long hurt farm incomes

A farmer harvesting his crop in a village in Punjab.(HT FILE PHOTO.)
Updated on Sep 20, 2019 05:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Kharif output expected to fall this year

The upshot of a projected decline in food output is that it is expected to, at least slightly, push up flat food prices, especially of grains.

Subdued food inflation benefits consumers or net buyers of food items, but they also hurt farm incomes, especially because commodity prices are not keeping pace with rising costs of cultivation.(HT image)
Updated on Sep 11, 2019 03:51 AM IST
New Delhi | By

How bad is the slowdown? State of the economy explained in 10 charts

Tax projections made in the budget are based on projected nominal GDP growth for the year. This year’s budget had a projected nominal GDP growth of 12%. An 8% growth rate can lead to a serious shortfall in taxes.

India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 5% in the quarter ended June.
Updated on Sep 08, 2019 11:45 AM IST
New Delhi | By

The Big Picture:How deep is the crisis confronting the Indian economy?

India’s GDP growth plummeted to 5% in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. This is the lowest in 25 quarters. This is only the second instance of growth rate falling for five consecutive quarters since 1999.

Updated on Jun 25, 2020 12:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByHindustan Times

There is an economic slowdown. Govt must first get its diagnosis right

A four percentage point shortfall in this figure for the entire year, if it happens, will mean a big shortfall in tax collections. This also means that the government will find it very difficult to spend what it has committed in the budget.

India’s GDP growth plummeted to 5% in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.(Reuters)
Updated on Jun 25, 2020 12:33 AM IST
New Delhi | By

Centre plans wider method to measure income of farmers

In 2016, Prime Minister Modi first declared his government would double farm incomes — in other words, raise them by 100% — in six years by 2022-23, a politically significant goal in a country where nearly half the population depends on a farm-based livelihood.

Not only have farm incomes remained subdued in the past four-five years, the sector’s growth is currently way below what is required to achieve a potential doubling of incomes coming out of agricultural activities.(Yogendra Kumar/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jun 21, 2020 10:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByZia Haq and Saubhadra Chatterji

The monsoon shortfall won’t lead to food scarcity, but will hurt incomes

.The 1943 Bengal famine, following a missed monsoon, killed an estimated four million. In 2009, a drought year, the country managed to produce a million more tonne of foodgrains than it did in 2007, a normal year. This obviously has to do with better agricultural practices, leading to higher productivity.

It’s a rather long expedition that nature undertakes each summer. Moisture-laden winds in the south-Pacific start racing northwards, preparing to travel more than 8,000 km to reach the Indian subcontinent on time.(PTI)
Updated on Jul 24, 2019 06:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

To spur rural development, India must make agriculture economically viable

It is surely possible provided we change our mindset and let 2022 -- the 75th year of India’s Independence -- be the milestone to restore the pride in agriculture, make farm distress history, and turn farming into a vibrant economic enterprise

Farmers have toiled hard to produce bumper harvests. And yet, with each passing year, the plight of a farming family has only worsened. Agriculture in reality has been a victim of macro-economic policies which aim at keeping food inflation low, provide cheaper raw material for the industry, and meet the obligations of international trade(Hindustan Times)
Published on Jun 21, 2019 08:02 PM IST
ByDevinder Sharma

India’s farmer income plan faces European Union scrutiny at WTO

US president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have both made boosting farm incomes a priority. Trump is trying to offset domestic damage from a tariff war with China; Modi faces a slowdown in India’s agriculture-dominated economy.

Massive farm-support plans in the United States and India are being scrutinised by other World Trade Organization members(Mujeeb Faruqui/HT File Photo)
Updated on Jun 18, 2019 10:44 AM IST
Geneva | ByReuters

Farm relief, new MSP regime on govt’s to-do list

The Narendra Modi government’s new agenda for the crisis-ridden farm sector is being geared towards achieving the single goal of doubling agricultural incomes — a legacy of its first term in office.

A farmer sitting beside dead Lime trees due to drought at Navegaon Village, Paithan in Marathwada, India, on Monday, April 25, 2016.(Hindustan Times file photo)
Updated on May 31, 2019 09:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Lok Sabha elections 2019: PM-Kisan may go universal if NDA returns to power

The Prime Minister’s Office had this month asked various department heads and secretaries to draw up a policy agenda for the next government’s first 100 days. T

An expansion of the Narendra Modi government’s cash-transfer scheme for small and marginal farmers, PM-Kisan, to cover all agricultural households is likely to be the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s key farm plank if it returns to power.(PTI)
Updated on May 13, 2019 07:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By

Lok Sabha elections 2019: How BJP plans to counter the caste arithmetic in Uttar Pradesh

Even as BJP has promised to double farm incomes by 2022 and claims to have increased the minimum support price of crops to 1.5 times the cost of production, farmers across the state are unhappy over unpaid dues for sugarcane and having to sell their produce in the open market.

Contact programmes have intensified following feedback from the RSS after the April 11 first phase of elections, where the overall polling percentage dipped from 2014’s 66.52% to 63.69%.(HT Photo)
Updated on May 02, 2020 03:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mathura/New Delhi | By

Taxpayers will have to disclose more details in new income tax return forms

The new forms also require individuals to disclose more details about their residential status, such as the number of days spent in India and abroad, rather than giving a self-declaration on residential status.

People stand in queue to file their IT returns on last day of financial year outside Income Tax office at BKC, Bandra in Mumbai, India.(Hindustan Times file photo)
Updated on Apr 06, 2019 09:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByGireesh Chandra Prasad

Rahul Gandhi spells out his 2019 agenda

One can agree or disagree with Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s views, but his willingness to take questions and be challenged is a positive democratic trait.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi, February 4, 2019.(PTI)
Updated on Feb 05, 2019 08:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Worst price slump in 18 years shows scale of farm crisis

The agrarian crisis is one of the factors that may have resulted in the BJP’s loss in three Hindi heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in December, according to analysts, and the party clearly doesn’t want it to affect its prospects in the 2019 parliamentary elections.

Farm workers in Noida thrash freshly harvested paddy crop to separate the grains.(AP Photo)
Updated on Jan 15, 2019 08:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By
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