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ResearchMarch 6, 2026June 20, 2026bySai Chandan Kotu, Sandipan Baksi, Tapas S, Modak and Nagesh Maurya

Examining the Ground for Adoption of Digital Technologies in Agricultural Production in India

Examining the Ground for Adoption of Digital Technologies in Agricultural Production in India This blogpost is an outcome of a research project on Digital Agriculture in India conducted by the…

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ResearchDecember 3, 2025June 20, 2026byV. K. Ramachandran

A Note on Studying Non-Agricultural Activity in Rural India

A Note on Studying Non-Agricultural Activity in Rural India Villages in India, as elsewhere, have traditionally been agricultural. The great majority of the population worked on the land or owned…

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ResearchAugust 29, 2025June 20, 2026bySoham Bhattacharya

Realities of Inequality in Rural India: A Few Clarifications

Realities of Inequality in Rural India: A Few Clarifications IntroductionA new set of claims on reduction in inequality in India has emerged following the publication of a World Bank report…

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ResearchMarch 25, 2024June 16, 2026byNency Agrawal

Unequal Work: Explaining the Recent Increase in Female Workers in Rural India

Unequal Work: Explaining the Recent Increase in Female Workers in Rural India There is an unusual change that is taking place in the rural labour market in India. After a decade…

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ResearchFebruary 6, 2024June 20, 2026byMadhura Swaminathan

Limited Options, Low Wages: The Working Lives of Dalit Women Workers in Rural Uttar Pradesh

Limited Options, Low Wages: The Working Lives of Dalit Women Workers in Rural Uttar Pradesh In June 2023, we participated in the FAS-PARI survey of two villages of Uttar Pradesh,…

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ResearchJuly 26, 2023June 16, 2026byDeepak Johnson

Land Reforms and Change: Illustrations from Villages in Central Kerala

Land Reforms and Change: Illustrations from Villages in Central Kerala Although overlooked in the current policy framework, the consequences of land reforms are significant as shown by the experience of…

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ResearchApril 25, 2023June 11, 2026byfasadmin

Handling Unit-level Data of NSSO’s SAS 2019 Using R: A Guide for Beginners

The sample surveys conducted by India’s National Sample Surveys or NSS (formerly known as the National Sample Survey Office and the National Sample Survey Organization – NSSO) under the Ministry…

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ResearchNovember 3, 2022June 20, 2026byfasadmin

Environmental Release of GM-Mustard in India: Cause for Hope

Environmental Release of GM-Mustard in India: Cause for Hope On October 26th, 2022, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), India’s biotech regulator under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate…

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CommentarySeptember 7, 2022byfasadmin

Deregulation of Agricultural Marketing: How has it Affected the APMC System in Karnataka?

In December 2020, in line with the Central Farm Laws, the Government of Karnataka passed an amendment to the Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) Act, 1966. This amendment…

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CommentaryJune 27, 2022byfasadmin

Kharif MSP Announcement has to be Reconciled with Rising Costs across India

The Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for kharif crops that will be marketed in the 2022-23 season were announced by the Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on June 8,…

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