Topic
farmers
From the archive
Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Precision & digital, IndiaAccess to market info: a major factor for a flourishing agricultureExplains how timely market information strengthens farmers' hand with traders, and how literacy and language limit farmers' use of ICT, citing western Rajasthan.
- Policy & trade, IndiaFarmers: “the mitochondria of India”Covid-19 lockdowns shut markets and cut farmers' access to labour, seed and fertiliser, hitting incomes and pushing some to leave farming for other work.
- Policy & trade, MaharashtraMaharashtra lockdown and its impact on farmersMaharashtra plans curfews and partial lockdowns in major cities to curb Covid-19, but reports suggest no complete lockdown like last year, easing farmers' worries.
- Policy & trade, GujaratBullet train project in India has already invited around 1900 complaints from the farmersGujarat's legislature was told farmers have filed around 1,908 complaints against land acquisition for the Ahmedabad to Mumbai bullet train, most of them in Surat.