The Finance Minister says the solution to India’s agricultural system is Zero Budget Natural Farming. Is it possible?
Throwing money at rural India without redistributing its excess population is worthless populism
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 attempts to correct the ill effects of historical processes through his tome on rural distress
Fresh evidence shows how India pipped China to rice cultivation about nine millennia ago
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