2017-11-01T07:16:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Polity|
Reports of farmers dying from pesticide exposure in Maharashtra’s cotton belt in Yavatmal make it evident that the government’s efforts to regulate toxic chemicals used in agriculture have miserably failed. […]
2017-09-05T19:05:08+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
In an effort to boost the agriculture sector, the Indian government has set an ambitious goal to double farmers’ income by 2022. In doing so, it has unveiled strategies ranging from irrigation to crop insurance. […]
2017-07-15T16:15:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
Agro & social forestry have been traditionally practiced in India. Policy inclusion of agro & social forestry have not however brought in desired results. The article examines how agro & social forestry can be revisited and norms revised to make it more sustainable and meaningful. […]
2017-07-10T01:59:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
It took the tragic death of six farmers in Madhya Pradesh for the national media to report on the deep-rooted agricultural crisis. […]
2017-07-06T23:39:41+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
Once upon a time everybody ate local food. No one called it that back then, of course. People just hunted, gathered, tilled the soil, and grazed livestock—all, for the most part, relatively close to home. But then small agricultural settlements grew into towns, towns grew into cities, and eventually the [...]
2017-07-05T08:19:22+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture|
Definition- Contract farming is the contractual arrangement between farmer and the firm, whether oral or written, specifying one or more conditions of production and/or marketing of an agricultural product. […]
2017-05-15T13:05:32+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
Disclaimer-This is a compilation of agriculture news from the HINDU newspaper. We will keep updating this post as and when we come across new initiatives/concepts related to agriculture until Prelims 2017. […]
2017-05-15T09:56:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials|
It saved many nations like India from famine. […]
2017-05-15T09:48:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Editorials, Society|
Agriculture is now about 10,000 years old, but has been constantly improved to make it more productive and easier through human intervention. So agriculture is a hundred per cent human-created enterprise and there is nothing natural about it. If agriculture had not developed the way it has, the human race [...]
2017-05-04T15:51:52+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Agriculture, Economy, Editorials|
Note- In our last years Mains test series, we gave a question related to taxing agricultural income, although the question was not asked by UPSC last year, still it is one of the most debated topic in policy circles. The below article gives reasons on why it should be taxed. [...]
