The Union Budget of 2016 has widely been publicised as a “pro-farmer” Budget An analysis by R. Ramakumar in the current issue of Frontline critically assesses the claim that farmers’ incomes will be doubled by 2022. Ramakumar shows that th
Cotton cultivation: Bt varieties and hybrids
“The main reason why India has been unable to harness the full potential of Bt cotton technology is that it got caught in the hybrid trap,” writes K. R. Kranthi, eminent entomologist and Director of the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR)