This year, India produced a record amount of foodgrains, but the repeal of three agri-reform laws and a steep rise in cooking oil prices cast a shadow over the country’s dependable agriculture sector, which is on track for better crop production in 2022 amidst pandemic tunes. While...
Social activists working among the farming community, led by Kavitha Kuruganti, have condemned the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) draft regulations on genetically modified (GM) food as ‘unacceptable.’ According to the Coalition for GM-Free India...
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) has called for agricultural land ceiling laws to be repealed in order to allow farmers to grow economically. According to Assocham’s pre-Budget memorandum 2022-23, land ceiling laws may have allowed for land redistribution...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has dismissed the pesticides company’s demand on three key issues: price control, criminalization, and data protection, and has asked the government to provide a system of checks and balances to prevent pesticide inspectors from...
NITI Aayog has signed an agreement with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to identify issues related to the inclusion of millets in government programs, with the goal of providing a more diverse food basket via its free food distribution scheme, with a aim on coarse grains and...
