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Shweta Saini
Shweta Saini is a consultant.
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Why Punjab’s farmers are unlikely to diversify their produce despite MSP guaranteeSubscriber Only
March 21,2024 07:23:04 AM
Prioritising crops like millets, pulses, and oilseeds through aggressive MSP increases can bolster both nutritional security and climatic resilience
Thu, Mar 21, 2024
How to solve the problem of stubble burningSubscriber Only
November 20,2023 07:30:08 AM
Providing market avenues for crop residue and legal backing against polluting practices could end farm fires.
Mon, Nov 20, 2023
MSP for all crops is fiscally unfeasibleSubscriber Only
December 20,2021 03:34:47 AM
🔴 Ashok Gulati, Shweta Saini writes: It may be better to use an income policy to directly transfer money into farmers’ accounts.
Mon, Dec 20, 2021
A high growth plan for Indian agricultureSubscriber Only
March 15,2021 04:52:05 AM
It requires a diversified approach that takes into account peculiarities and constraints of states, investment in infrastructure and linking farmer producer groups with markets.
Mon, Mar 15, 2021
An answer to rural distressSubscriber Only
January 07,2019 01:53:31 AM
An income transfer policy combined with direct cash transfer is the best way to help the farmer
Mon, Jan 07, 2019
From Plate to Plough: Maharashtra vs MarketSubscriber Only
September 03,2018 00:07:44 AM
State’s decision to make MSP mandatory for traders will lead to chaos. The way forward is to treat farmers as businessmen and facilitate an environment in which they can flourish.
Mon, Sep 03, 2018
From Plate to Plough: Lean year as a foundationSubscriber Only
August 20,2018 04:37:19 AM
NABARD’s new survey offers a baseline to double farmers’ incomes. But is a survey done in a drought year a reliable yardstick?
Mon, Aug 20, 2018
From Plate to Plough: Why farmers agitateSubscriber Only
June 11,2018 01:54:46 AM
An efficient and sustainable solution for better prices really lies in ‘getting the markets right’ by overhauling the agri-marketing infrastructure and its associated laws.
Mon, Jun 11, 2018
From Plate to Plough: Pieces of a marketSubscriber Only
May 28,2018 00:12:41 AM
A single national agriculture market, promised by the BJP in its 2014 manifesto, remains a pipe dream. Can the government reform the broken APMC structure in the last year of its term?
Mon, May 28, 2018
From Plate to Plough: Four years of neglecting farmersSubscriber Only
May 02,2018 00:05:07 AM
Government is nowhere close to fulfilling the promises made in BJP’s 2014 manifesto — profitability of cultivation has fallen and dominance of Food Corporation of India continues.
Sun, May 13, 2018
From Plate to Plough: Freeing the farmSubscriber Only
April 16,2018 00:07:50 AM
Raising agricultural exports requires the government to unburden policy of consumer bias. A balance should be struck between meeting the needs of food-insecure consumers and income-insecure farmers.
Mon, Apr 16, 2018
From Plate To Plough: Getting realistic about farm incomesSubscriber Only
March 06,2018 00:05:39 AM
Unless government takes bold decisions on agri-markets, reducing production costs and increasing demand, its goal to double farmers’ incomes by 2022 will remain a pipe-dream.
Tue, Mar 06, 2018
From Plate to Plough: Seize the crisisSubscriber Only
August 29,2016 00:02:54 AM
Government has the opportunity to rein in food inflation on a sustainable basis.
Mon, Aug 29, 2016
From plate to plough: Seeds of changeSubscriber Only
August 15,2016 00:02:06 AM
PM Modi needs to move from slogans to action to transform agriculture.
Mon, Aug 15, 2016
Farm incomes: Dreaming to doubleSubscriber Only
July 28,2016 02:12:13 AM
The Modi government should spell out clearly what it wants to double by 2022 — nominal or real incomes.
Thu, Jul 28, 2016
From Plate to Plough: With humility, on farmer incomeSubscriber Only
June 20,2016 00:30:16 AM
NDA’s existing agricultural policies are ill-equipped to achieve the stated goal of doubling them in five years.
Mon, Jun 20, 2016
From plate to plough: A barren fieldSubscriber Only
May 26,2016 00:02:36 AM
NDA government’s plans for agriculture are still to bear fruit.
Thu, May 26, 2016
From Plate to Plough: Raising farmers’ income by 2022Subscriber Only
March 28,2016 00:00:53 AM
The picture is completed by the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (crop insurance) and e-market platform that he is going to launch on April 14.
Mon, Mar 28, 2016
Bad cure for a racing pulseSubscriber Only
October 23,2015 00:48:54 AM
Scapegoating ‘hoarders’ and ‘speculators’ for the spike in dal prices might have been effective in the 1960s. But today, it is only evidence of a rather sloppy conceptual policy framework.
Fri, Oct 23, 2015
From plate to plough: Losing the pulsesSubscriber Only
September 28,2015 00:24:20 AM
Government’s actions on the commodity reveals it is ignorant of how a market economy is run
Mon, Sep 28, 2015
From Plate to Plough: Modi sarkar’s toughest testSubscriber Only
June 08,2015 00:11:39 AM
It is agricultural reform. Without focus on agri GDP and a sectoral overhaul, ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ will remain a slogan
Mon, Jun 08, 2015
Prepare for the rainless daySubscriber Only
June 04,2015 00:00:50 AM
A tussle is on between El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole. Government cannot afford to be a bystander.
Thu, Jun 04, 2015
If it doesn’t rainSubscriber Only
May 05,2015 00:00:41 AM
We need a contingency plan that combines real-time technology with robust insurance and easy credit.
Tue, May 05, 2015Journalism of Courage
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