Locusts are the most important migratory pests globally, threatening the food supply of millions, due to the immensity of swarms migrating across countries, suddenness of their appearance, and ability to devour all kinds of vegetation within hours.
The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics for the proponents of Randomised Controlled Trials fulfils the discipline’s highest aspiration to mimic the laws and methods of natural sciences to explain social order.
I have spent about a month in Vietnam studying the present situation of rice cultivation, a sector that has immense importance in the economy of Vietnam.
Shortage of adequate water in rural India is a perennial problem. As per latest data, almost one fifth of rural habitations did not get the minimum entitled quantity of water (40 litres per capita per day or two buckets a day). This shortage is aggravated in the dry season.
A preliminary study of eight farmers from Champakulam village panchayat, which is part of the Kuttanad wetland ecosystem, presents some unexpected findings. Kuttanad wetland ecosystem is a globally important agricultural heritage system in south-central Kerala.
The Union Government announced minimum support prices (MSP) for 17 agricultural commodities (14 kharif crops) on July 4, 2018. The announcement came in the backdrop of the assurance provided by the Prime Minister to sugarcane farmers that the Government is going to provide MSP for kharif crops at one and half times of production cost. However, a closer look at the MSP reveals that for no crop was MSP more than 50 per cent of production cost.
It is well known that women play an integral role in the procurement as well as use of cooking energy, particularly from biomass. Existing gender roles within households impose a differential burden on men and women, with women having to bear most of the adverse effects of time-consuming and unsafe sources of energy for cooking and lighting.
Data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey 2015-16 (NFHS-4) show that education of girls and women continues to be neglected in rural areas of Odisha. District Fact Sheets from NFHS-4 show that every second female aged 6 and above in rural areas of six districts of south Odisha had not attended school.
Farm Harvest Price or FHP is a critical variable in determining incomes of farmers from crop production. Farm harvest prices are also used to estimate the contribution of agriculture to national incomes. In this post, we examine how farm harvest prices are defined, collected and reported in India.
