Agriculture Reform

What is soil health card scheme? Check eligibility, cost and challenges

Under SHC scheme, a soil health card contains soil health indicators and descriptive concepts based on farmers' knowledge of local natural resources and practical experience

FAO chief Qu Dongyu bats for urgent transformation of agrifood systems

According to the Global Report on Food Crisis released earlier this month, 193 million people were acutely food insecure and in need of urgent assistance across 53 countries and territories in 2021

TMS, Ep 47: Repeal of farm laws, decline of cable TV, market, cloud kitchen

Repeal of farm laws a setback or a step in the right direction? Why's the cable TV industry stagnated? Will the market cheer withdrawal of farm laws? What are cloud kitchens? Let's find the answers

Future of farms

Govt must keep pushing farm reforms

Best of BS Opinion: Survival of the friendliest, seeds of a bleak future

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday.

The Big repeal: How the movement against three agriculture reforms unfolded

A 21-year-old climbing the flag pole and hoisting Nishan Sahib at Red Fort became the defining image of the protest.

The seeds of a bleak future

This episode of legislating bad laws and rolling back, means those issues will not be addressed for fear of sparking another agitation, writes Devangshu Datta

Women farmers are losing jobs, earnings, savings even as agriculture booms

The reverse migration sparked by the 2020 lockdown led to a drop in the demand for women farm workers who have few other job opportunities in villages

Agricultural reforms by govt will bring revolution in farmers' lives: Tomar

Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday said agricultural reforms by the central government will bring a revolution in the lives of the country's farmers

Farmers protest at Jewar toll plaza on Yamuna Expressway, disrupt traffic

A group of farmers protesting against the central farm laws staged a demonstration at the Jewar toll plaza, partially disrupting traffic movement on the Yamuna Expressway

Investors urge Europe to prioritise climate in agriculture reform

A $2 trillion group of investors urged the European Commission to be more ambitious in planned overhaul of the bloc's huge farming subsidy programme to fight climate change and protect biodiversity

Tharoor justifies British Parliament's right to discuss India's agri reform

After New Delhi summoned the UK envoy over discussion on agricultural reforms in India, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor justified the debate, saying in a democracy you are free to discuss whatever you want

Focused approach

Targeting specific products will help the agri sector

Upbeat on prospects in rural market, DCB Bank focuses on tractor loans

Private sector lender DCB Bank on Thursday said it is seeing a good business prospects from rural areas and wants to focus on "encouraging" tractor loans demand from the farming community. The bank is offering customised loans in Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan, which saw a growth in demand last year. The bank is positive about rural prospects, as evident from sales in Q2 FY21, and is expecting incremental growth in business, DCB Bank said in a release on Thursday. Citing a recent Crisil report that tractor sales were up by 12 per cent in first half of FY21, the lender said good monsoon and higher crop production generally support farm incomes and this in turn provides a fillip to tractor demand. Typically, fortunes of the tractor loan business depend on the vagaries of the weather and the harvest season among other macro and micro variables, it said. "The sale of tractors shows a heartening trend, it has posted

Farm reform domestic policy, but will continue following protests: UK

In the Business Questions, Dhesi asked: "Currently, the largest protest on the planet, the peaceful farmers' protest in India has been ongoing for months now"

Short shrift for agriculture

The sector did not get anticipated attention in Budget

Shekhar Gupta: A lost battle

Modi govt has already lost the battle on farm laws. It will err even more gravely if it persists with the Sikh separatism bogey

Agricultural reforms, farmers' agitation, and the power of narrative

A group of people holding an elected govt to ransom and a govt turning against its own citizens in the name of law and order are both instinctively troubling in a democracy, writes T N Ninan

US supports India's agri laws, remains silent on farmers' protests

Delhi police cites Greta's tweets in FIR; Oppn MPs stopped from meeting protesters

Farmers protest: Global Indian diaspora seeks repeal of three farm laws

Expressing solidarity with agitating Indian farmers, an alliance of various diaspora organisations has demanded repeal of 3 agricultural laws that have caused unrest in country's farming community