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Farm Truths | Himanshu 10:37 PM | October 27,2009
Migration is not always voluntary and does not necessarily reflect freedom of choice
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 09:26 PM | September 29,2009
Norms should be revised in tune with changes in demographics, prevalence of disease and climatic factors
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 10:36 PM | September 15,2009
The fact of the matter is that consumer price inflation has been high since March of last year. It remained around 10% last year when food production was a record high with no signs of drought
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 10:44 PM | September 01,2009
We require greater public investment in agriculture, which has been on a steady decline since the beginning of 1980s
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 09:38 PM | August 04,2009
The previous three censuses in 1992, 1997 and 2002 resulted in large errors of exclusion (many deserving poor were left out of the beneficiary list) and inclusion (many non-poor were included in the list)
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 01:45 PM | July 24,2009
If this is the shape that the Bill takes, it will be a classic case of a missed opportunity for doing something substantial for the food security of millions of poor
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Farm Economics | Himanshu 01:15 AM | July 03,2009
The challenge lies not only in immediate measures to revive job growth, but also in a shift in an economic strategy that’s also employment-intensive
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 11:03 PM | June 09,2009
A prerequisite of any targeted anti-poverty programme is the right identification of the beneficiary
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 09:42 PM | May 12,2009
Contrary to popular belief, the challenge is not only to create jobs in a slowing economy, but also to ensure that the jobs offer decent compensation and social security
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 12:45 AM | April 29,2009
Whatever the outcome of the elections, the rural areas are going to benefit if parties translate words into action
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 10:29 PM | April 07,2009
Rural India shining could be a result of deliberate actions by the incumbent government or pure coincidence. In other words, is the revival sustainable?
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 10:56 PM | March 24,2009
Not only did the poor suffer from spiralling food price inflation for the major part of the UPA’s regime, the period also witnessed a decline in food availability
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 10:18 PM | March 09,2009
The provisional figures show 36.88 million farmers benefited from the scheme. Of this, 30.1 million were small and marginal farmers and the remaining 6.78 million were medium and large farmers
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 01:21 AM | March 02,2009
A notable case of missed opportunity is the absence of any significant fiscal stimulus for the unorganized sector
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Farm Truths | Himanshu 09:05 PM | January 13,2009
Small, marginal farmers make up at least 80% of all farmer households
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