agriculture

The Roadshow Apart

Siddharth Singh

Protest marches by farmers and emotive appeals by politicians are no substitute for the need to fix India’s broken farm sector

Feroze Varun Gandhi: ‘We’ve gone from medievalism to post-modernism without really having a civilisation in between’

Aresh Shirali

Feroze Varun Gandhi attempts to correct the ill effects of historical processes through his tome on rural distress

The New Village Idiom

Bibek Debroy

Is agriculture all that important?

New Grain Theory

Lhendup G Bhutia

Fresh evidence shows how India pipped China to rice cultivation about nine millennia ago

Bitter Sugar

Madhavankutty Pillai

A crisis of oversupply has resulted in Rs 23,000 crore arrears owed to sugarcane farmers, a powerful political constituency that could make its discontent felt in next year’s General Election

A group of Tamil farmers made national headlines one year ago by kicking off a series of absurd protests in Delhi. V Shoba meets key characters from the landmark agitation who are back in their villages battling an unending farm crisis