Articles in Agriculture

Deputy Chairman of planning commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s recent statement that tea would be the country’s national beverage has stirred controversy. While Tea companies have welcomed his statement calling it a well-deserved claim dairy industries have objected to milk being relegated to play second fiddle. The dairy giant Amul has expressed its sharp disagreement over Ahluwalia’s remark. The Amul officials have stressed that milk being a much favoured energy drink in the ...

A cooperative bank in Nagpur in Maharashtra with a link with the BJP that had slid into a serious crisis incurring losses to the tune of more than fifty crore has suddenly bounced back. The Shikshak Sahakari Bank has been claiming substantial profits for the last three years. The bank is without a doubt a going concern now. It is remarkable that the bank has survived to tell the tale.  Its woes began in 2000s when it botched up lending and got a mass of flak from the RBI. The bank had ...

India needs to invest Rs 40,000 crore in the fertiliser sector to increase the country’s urea production capacity to 33.7 million tonnes (MT) by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan, an expert group has said. According to a report of the Working Group set up by the Planning Commission for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), investment in the sector by end of 2010-11 stood at Rs 27,247 crore. “To increase the capacity of urea by about 12 million tonnes to a total of 33.7 MT by 2016-17, ...

Some good news from the Mamata Banerjee’s govt of West Bengal at last. The state government appears serious in cleansing the cooperative sector in the state of criminal tendencies and undemocratic norms on the lines of Nitish Kumar. Towards this end, the govt. has formed a dedicated election commission for the cooperative sector. The move has been widely hailed as a great step towards reorganization of the cooperative sector in accord with the democratic principles. Readers can recall ...