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agriculture
The Soil Economy
Lhendup G Bhutia
The Finance Minister says the solution to India’s agricultural system is Zero Budget Natural Farming. Is it possible?
The Rural Fetish
Throwing money at rural India without redistributing its excess population is worthless populism
The Roadshow Apart
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’
Feroze Varun Gandhi attempts to correct the ill effects of historical processes through his tome on rural distress
New Grain Theory
Fresh evidence shows how India pipped China to rice cultivation about nine millennia ago
Bitter Sugar
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
Back to the Scorched Earth
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
A Budget for Bharat
In the year before the general election the finance minister did what was expected.
Anger Management
The Government will have to balance the tide of agrarian unrest and manage its finances
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