Kindly click here, here and here to find the main findings of the State of Rural and Agrarian India Report 2020 (released on 30th November, 2020), which has been produced by Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies (NRAS). — The Annual Report 2019-20 of the Reserve Bank of India (released in August, 2020) (please click here to access the report) has made some observations about…
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The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation conducted the latest survey on All India Debt and Investment Survey during the period January – December, 2019 as a part of 77th round of National Sample Survey (NSS). Prior to this the survey was carried out in NSS 26th round (1971-72), 37th round (1981-82), 48th…
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According to the Economic Survey 2017-18, Volume-1 (released in January, 2018), please click here to read more: • The volatility of agricultural growth in India has declined substantially over time: from a standard deviation of 6.3 percent between 1960 and 2004 to 2.9 percent since 2004. In particular, production of cereals has become more robust to drought. &*…
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KEY TRENDS • Research studies indicate more erratic and intense monsoon rains/unseasonal rains and hailstorm, increasing risk of droughts and floods and rise in temperature including increased frequency of warm days. This leads to projected average reduction of yield by 6 percent in wheat, 4-6 percent in rice, 18 percent in maize, 2.5 percent in…
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Highlights of the report named—“Veg or Non-Veg: India at the Crossroads”, Brighter Green (2012), http://www.brightergreen.org/files/india_bg_pp_2011.pdf are as follows: • To satisfy domestic consumption, and with an eye on export markets, India has joined the livestock revolution. It has a large and growing population of farmed animals and intensification in how they are produced, in the Western mould,…
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Key findings of the study titled Assessing farm-level agricultural sustainability over a 60-year period in rural eastern India by Deepti Sharma and Shardendu Shardendu, Environmentalist (2011) 31:325–337, http://www.springerlink.com/content/0051808851j537rq/, are as follows: • Sustainable agriculture is multi-dimensional, and is the combined product of environmental, social and economic sustainability. The area is relevant since India being an overpopulated country is…
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KEY TRENDS • The report entitled Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana: An Assessment from the Centre for Science and Environment (released on 21 July, 2017) finds that PMBY is not beneficial for farmers in vulnerable regions. For farmers in vulnerable regions such as Bundelkhand and Marathwada, factors like low indemnity levels, low threshold yields, low sum insured and…
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Kindly click here and here to access the CSE report titled State of Biofertilizers and Organic Fertilizers in India (released in April 2022). — Please click here and here to access the key findings of the report titled Tenant Farmers Study Report for Andhra Pradesh: Implementation of Crop Cultivator Rights Act, Inclusion in Rythu Bharosa & other Schemes Part-1 (released on March 8, 2022), which…
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The key findings of the report titled Sustainable Agriculture in India 2021: What We Know and How to Scale Up (released in April 2021), produced by Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), are as follows (please click here and here to access): • This study, in collaboration with the Food and Land Use…
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