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Enhancing Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability

This editorial is based on “Stopping short of the farm” which was published in The Indian Express on 03/01/2025. The article brings...

03 Feb 2025 Agriculture

Contract Farming in India’s Agriculture

For Prelims: Contract Farming, Organic Fertilizers, Maximum Residue Level (MRL), Soil Degradation, Monocropping, Food Security, Farmer Producer...

31 Jan 2025 Agriculture

8th Edition of the National Programme for Organic Production

For Prelims: National Programme for Organic Production, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, Bio-fertilizers,...

10 Jan 2025 Agriculture

Farmer’s Demand for Legalizing MSP

For Prelims: Supreme Court of India, Minimum Support Price, 1991 Economic liberalisation, World Trade Organisation,  Food inflation, Pradhan...

04 Jan 2025 Agriculture

DILRMP and Digitalisation of Land Records

For Prelims:  National Land Record Modernization Programme (NLRMP), Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP), Survey of...

03 Jan 2025 Agriculture

Making India’s FPOs Global

For Prelims: Farmer Producer Organisations, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Small Farmers’ Agribusiness...

23 Dec 2024 Agriculture

Improving Farmers’ Welfare

For Prelims: Parliamentary Standing Committee, Demands for Grants, Minimum Support Price, PM-KISAN Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana,...

21 Dec 2024 Agriculture

SC Panel Report on Agriculture Distress

For Prelims: Agricultural Distress, Supreme Court, State of Agriculture in India, National Commission on Farmers (NCF), Commission for Agricultural...

13 Dec 2024 Agriculture

Changing Trends in Fertilizer Use

For Prelims: Fertiliser, Fertilizer Subsidy, Urea, DAP, Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) Scheme  For Mains: Issues Related with Fertiliser...

13 Dec 2024 Agriculture

Promise and Perils of Legalizing MSP

This editorial is based on “Unrest over minimum support prices” which was published in The Financial Express on 28/11/2024.  The...

03 Dec 2024 Agriculture

Rebuilding India's Agricultural Sector

This editorial is based on “Why farmers remain unhappy with the government” which was published in The Indian Express on 22/11/2024....

22 Nov 2024 Agriculture

CSR for Agriculture Sustainability

For Prelims: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Small and Marginal Farmers, Fertilisers, Irrigation Systems, Cyclones, Livestock Farming,...

18 Nov 2024 Agriculture

Assessing the Potential of Natural Farming

For Prelims: Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), Bharatiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati (BPKP)/ZBNF, National Mission on Natural Farming...

16 Nov 2024 Agriculture

Sustainability Concerns in India’s Agricultural Export Growth

For Prelims: Tea, Sugar,  Cropping patterns, National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY), Sub-mission...

15 Nov 2024 Agriculture

Nano Coated Fertilisers

For Prelims: Nano Fertilisers, Nutrient Use Efficiency, Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), Fullerenes, Fullerols, Precision Agriculture, Nitrogen Metabolism,...

12 Nov 2024 Agriculture

State of Food and Agriculture 2024

For Prelims: Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Non-communicable diseases, Greenhouse gas emissions, Sustainable Development Goals,...

12 Nov 2024 Agriculture

Chapter - 16 Agriculture

Agriculture plays a vital role in India's economy. About 54.6% of the population is engaged in agriculture and allied activities (Census 2011) and it...

08 Nov 2024 Agriculture

First Advance Estimates for Kharif Crop Production

For Prelims: Kharif crop, Digital Crop Survey, Digital Agriculture Mission (DAM), Girdawari method, Gross Domestic Product, Digital Public...

07 Nov 2024 Agriculture

MSP and its Legalisation

For Prelims: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), Rabi crops, Agricultural Prices Commission (APC), National food security,  Food...

21 Oct 2024 Agriculture

Haber-Bosch Process and Production of Fertilizers

For Prelims: Haber-Bosch process, Nitrogen, Ammonia, Lightning, Azotobacter and Rhizobia, Volcanic eruptions, Acid rain, organic farming,...

17 Oct 2024 Agriculture