farming

Polyhouse farming
Will polyhouse farming finally take off in India?

State governments of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra announcing a number of projects to promote the practice, polyhouse farming garnering nation-wide recognition more rea...

Agriculture_TPCI
Budget 2023-24: Sustaining the agricultural economy

The agriculture sector is the backbone of the Indian economy hence, the budget allocation for the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare is crucial. There was a substantial increase in budget ...

Dr Arpita Mukherjee TPCI IBT
Sustainable agriculture practices should be investor friendly

Dr Arpita Mukherjee, Professor at ICRIER, opines that while businesses understand the concept of risk, they also need reasonable chances of success if they invest in sustainable agriculture practices....

Jagdish N. Sheth Manufacturing
India can leverage contract farming to boost value added exports

Prof Jagdish Sheth takes a deep dive on the various models of contract farming that have evolved in the US over the past two centuries. If done right, he believes that it can help India exploit its un...

Shrimp industry
Shrimp industry: A chance at redemption?

Faced with stringent timelines for its summer production cycle, the Indian shrimp industry was severely impacted by the lockdowns in the initial months of the pandemic. However, the industry has the o...

Digital Agriculture
Digital agriculture: Taking the guesswork out of farming

Digital agriculture is acclaimed as a viable solution to ensure that rural agrarian communities secure their livelihoods. However, it  should be seen as a supplement to other interventions like inves...

Cold storage
Government should encourage contracts by groups of farmers

Prof. C. S. C. Sekhar, Institute of Economic Growth agrees that as contract farming ordinance comes into play, a single small farmer will always be at a disadvantage vis-à-vis a large buyer. The gove...

Agriculture 2.0: From ‘world’s food basket’ to vibrant industry?

India needs to switch from predominantly being a producer of primary agricultural commodities towards building a dynamic agro-based industry; wherein the country can benefit from a rich agri-resource ...

Agricultural
Mainstreaming India’s agricultural exports post-COVID-19

Dr Harbir Singh and Dr Alka Singh, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, discuss the emerging international scenario in agricultural trade, and how India can better utilise its stren...

TPCI-IBT-Business-Perspectives
Rethinking India’s Agricultural Distress

While India aims to improve its competitiveness in export of agricultural commodities, there is a need to first construct a more farmer-friendly ‘domestic procurement facility’. That, along with a...

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