The Year of The Millets and Market Economics
I am a great believer in Market Economics and Darwinism. In fact, I would argue that market economics is explained by Darwinism. So today, I am exploring how the two are affecting the Indian agriculture…
Reforms in Agriculture – Just not enough and not in time
In my opinion, the last meaningful reform in Indian Agriculture was signing off on BT Cotton seeds in 2002. Not that either the Centre or any State governments at that point were very sagacious –…
Agricommodities in the (Post) Covid 19 World
The world as we know is no longer going to be the same. The Novel Coronavirus will force unprecedented changes on mankind and our lives and work will keep evolving until the virus stabilises or…
Agricultural Loans
Indian agriculture that is mostly rural, suffers from two maladies created in urban centres – policy makers who don’t get enough inputs( and don’t know what to do with the inputs, even if they had)…
Are There Any Successful Economic Models?
The world of economics is less than 10,000 years old. Structured move from barter to “ government issued “ money and commodity markets in a crude early form are believed to have originated in Sumer…
Do Indians know what is Disaster Management?
A long time ago, in some magazine, I read about an old woman accosting an airline pilot after reaching the destination, and saying “ That young man, was the worst touchdown I have been in…
The Politics of Agriculture in India
Having worked on three projects in the area of agriculture spread through the country, i could not help noticing the condundrum that is our country. It is acknowledged that over 70% of India’s population depends…
A practical solution to the Great Indian Mess
India has innumerable problems and I doubt if the readers of this magazine need to be reminded of all of them. But in the recent years, especially the hue and cry over raising prices of…