by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 8, 2020 | Agriculture
In April 2016, the Government of India constituted an Inter-ministerial Committee to suggest ways to double farmers income by 2022. The target is to double the incomes of farm households in real terms (or inflation adjusted) between 2015–16 and 2022–23. The committee...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 8, 2020 | Agriculture
Institutional credit is considered as one of the most crucial factors for addressing farmer distress in India. It is a widely held view that removal of credit constraints is necessary to improve farmer welfare and support agricultural growth. Every year, the centre’s...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 17, 2020 | Agriculture
The concept of zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) came into the spotlight in the first Budget presentation of the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in July 2019. There was a special emphasis on the implementation of zero-budget natural farming as ‘going back to...
by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 17, 2020 | Agriculture
Agrarian distress remains one of the biggest challenges confronting the policymakers in view of the fact that nearly 49 per cent of the workforce in the country is engaged in agriculture, yet the real farm incomes have almost stagnated or declined over the past two...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 9, 2020 | Agriculture
In an effort to double the income of farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP) on September 11, 2019, from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, for eradicating the foot and mouth disease (FMD) and brucellosis in the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jul 6, 2020 | Agriculture
According to a study conducted by the University of Exeter, UK, climate change and global warming will have an adverse effect on banana yields. The study bears implications for India, the world’s largest cultivator and consumer of the crop. It was published in...
