|
|
|
|
|
|
Articles 8621 through 8720 of 10500:
- Contract Farming: Joining Hands For Mutual Gains (Tribune, K.N. Rai, Oct 24, 2004)
Globalisation has brought enormous opportunities for Indian agrarian economy. Besieged with problems like fragmented landholdings, the lack of infrastructure
- Punjab’S Progress (Tribune, Mohan Guruswamy, Oct 23, 2004)
The spectrum of regional inequalities in India is a very wide one with Punjab and Bihar having per capita incomes of Rs 25, 048 and Rs 5,466 respectively at the opposite ends.
- Onions More Pungent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 23, 2004)
The Union Cabinet’s decision to hike foreign investment in aviation to 49% and to put such investment on the automatic route is welcome.
- Don't Warp The Boom (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 23, 2004)
India’s textiles sector is on song, hiring droves of new workers, installing new machinery and gearing up to take over a largish part of the world that would be
- A Poll Tear-Jerker? (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 22, 2004)
That onion is an election issue in some States is well known, the latest case in point being the Maharasthra Assembly elections. In the run-up to the Assembly elections, the National Congress Party (NCP) leader and
- What Happened In Vidarbha (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 22, 2004)
In the Lok Sabha polls, the BSP devastated the Congress-NCP alliance. In the Maharashtra elections, it also wrecked the BJP-Shiv Sena combine in many places.
- The World Economic Disorder (Business Line, S. Sethuraman, Oct 22, 2004)
Despite six decades of their existence, multilateral agencies such as the UN, the World Bank and the IMF, have not been able to make the world a better place in terms of peace, security and development with equal opportunities for all citizens.
- Onions Without Tears (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 22, 2004)
The government’s decision to finally delete onion from the Essential Commodities Act will enable its free trading without any restrictions on the quantity to be stored by a farmer or a trader.
- Onions More Pungent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 22, 2004)
The Union Cabinet’s decision to hike foreign investment in aviation to 49% and to put such investment on the automatic route is welcome.
- Stability Of Prices Or Inflation? (Business Line, A. Seshan, Oct 22, 2004)
Though the preamble to the RBI Act, 1934 mentions "monetary stability" as the objective of the central bank, it was quietly changed to mean a stability in the rate of inflation, variously mentioned as 5, 6 or 7 per cent, depending on the latest trend ...
- Revitalise Rural Credit Thru Nabard (Business Line, V. Jagan Mohan , Oct 22, 2004)
The huge gap in rural credit still exists in spite of a wide rural credit structure. Therefore, the time has come to leverage Nabard's formidable financial strength to revitalise the rural credit structure.
- Don't Warp The Boom (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 22, 2004)
India’s textiles sector is on song, hiring droves of new workers, installing new machinery and gearing up to take over a largish part of the world that would be thrown open when quotas disappear on January 1, 2005.
- What Ails Urban Cooperative Banks? (Business Line, Vasant Godse, Oct 21, 2004)
Human resource and technology are the primary inputs that can help urban cooperative banks perform optimally.
- Tricky Destiny (Deccan Herald, A N SUDARSAN RAO, Oct 21, 2004)
Until now, Fate seems to have decided events in my life, on which I have had little control
- Managing Natural Assets (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 21, 2004)
Punjab has had a dismal record in conserving biodiversity. That the state may soon have international assistance in this task is, indeed, welcome.
- Unshackling Rural Markets - Key Vectors Of An Overdue Agenda (Business Line, R. Gopalakrishnan, Oct 21, 2004)
The widening gap in per capita income between the farm and non-farm sectors has huge economic and social implications. Agriculture must be brought to centre-stage and, more important, the emphasis must shift from production to marketing.
- Making Contract Farming A Success (Tribune, Sharanjit S. Dhillon, Oct 21, 2004)
The Government of India’s National Agricultural Policy envisages that private sector participation will be promoted through contract farming and land leasing arrangements to allow accelerated technology transfer, capital inflow and assured market for...
- Babes In The Advertising Wood (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Oct 21, 2004)
There was a news item, recently, regarding a case filed against a bottled-drink maker by a child labour activist at Hyderabad, for glorifying child labour.
- Fast-Forwarding Indo-Vietnamese Ties (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 21, 2004)
The historic occasion of the golden jubilee of the Nehru-Ho Chi Minh meeting in Hanoi has provided a valuable opportunity for India and Vietnam to review the whole gamut of bilateral relations so that they can be put on a fast track.
- In Praise Of Moderation (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 21, 2004)
Robert Clive declared that he marvelled at his own moderation — he cornered a piffling £160,000 after becoming master of the ousted Siraj-ud-Daula’s treasury worth £1.5 million.
- Unshackling Rural Markets - For Authentic Engagement, First (Business Line, R. Gopalakrishnan, Oct 20, 2004)
Corporates should think about rural markets more holistically rather than from a pure consumer marketing viewpoint. There is a crucial role also for the government, which must move to authentic ...
- Top Three States - A Socio-Economic Comparison (Business Line, Jeevan Prakash Mohanty, Oct 20, 2004)
The Assembly election in Maharashtra is crucial for its possible ramifications on national politics. The election is being fought on several issues.
- Economic Migration In Asia (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 19, 2004)
While many observers continue to think of cross-border labour migration in terms of the movement of labour from the South to the North, in Asia most of the recent labour movement has been within the continent.
- Petro-Product Prices — Soft-Pedalling Can Hurt Govt Hard (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 18, 2004)
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government appears to be treading on thin ice on the issue of oil price adjustment even as the crude price zooms relentlessly.
- Mid-Term Appraisal Of Plan Targets (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 18, 2004)
The Mid-Term Appraisal presents the Planning Commission an opportunity to tackle certain problems head-on.
- Remarkable Triumph (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 18, 2004)
The congress-Nationalist Congress Party alliance has pulled off a superlative victory in the Maharashtra Assembly election, overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds — medium-scale rebellion ...
- Connecting Rural India (Hindu, M. S. Swaminathan , Oct 18, 2004)
The task of taking the benefits of the Internet and the space age to the country's 600,000 villages can be achieved by bringing about synergy between technology and public policy.
- Significance Of China's Economy To Global Growth (Business Line, C. Gopinath , Oct 18, 2004)
It should come as no surprise that China is a dominant player in the world economy today. A huge economy that has maintained a consistent
- The Role Of Diplomacy (Deccan Herald, G Parthasarathy, Oct 18, 2004)
India needs to take imaginative initiatives in its relations with its neighbours to contain extremism in its north-east
- Save The Cotton (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 18, 2004)
The prospect of a record harvest notwithstanding, a crisis is brewing for cotton farmers. The preliminary crop estimates doing the rounds are more damaging to farmers than rewarding.
- The Questions Remain (Hindu, K. Srinivas Reddy, Oct 17, 2004)
Will the Government be able to convince the Maoists to give up armed struggle? Or is it just a charade being enacted by both the parties?
- Broadband And Bottlenecks (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 16, 2004)
Broadband connects over 120 million Internet users worldwide to an online universe of rich content.
- In Thename Of The Father (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 16, 2004)
These are trying times for Uddhav Thackeray. Despite his parent’s blessings, it’s today’s Maharashtra Assembly election results that will define his true position in the Shiv Sena
- Transforming Lives Of Rural Women (Business Line, P. Srivatsan, Oct 15, 2004)
The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) lays emphasis on empowerment of women as an important socio-economic goal.
- World Food Day Or World Hunger Day? (Deccan Herald, MARY ROBINSON, Oct 15, 2004)
The connection between food security and AIDS is deep — malnourishment kills AIDS victims quickly
- Rain Struck Now (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Oct 13, 2004)
Untimely rain has damaged paddy — harvested, standing in the fields or lying in the mandis. Apart from Punjab and Haryana, reports of ruin have poured in from Himachal Pradesh as well.
- For Whom Is The Research Anyway? (Business Line, Sharad Joshi , Oct 13, 2004)
On one side there is an imposing network of laboratories and research establishments with panoply of academic achievement and recognition. On the other, mass suicides of farmers are happening that signals gross system failure of which the grand empire of
- Gimmicks For Foreign Funds (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 13, 2004)
It has been customary for chief ministers and finance ministers at the Centre, on assuming office, to make a strong pitch with foreign investors through `road-shows'.
- Make Or Break Time In Vidharbha (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 12, 2004)
The issue is not whether the Bahujan Samaj Party will get any seats at all. The question is whom will it hurt more.
- Gene Revolution And Patent Rights (Business Line, K. P. Prabhakaran Nair, Oct 12, 2004)
In this "International Year of Rice," India is being nudged by the US and its cohortsto take up genetically modified rice to "solve the problems" on the this cereal .
- The Miracle And Mystery Of China (Business Line, S. Venkitaramanan , Oct 11, 2004)
China's scorching rate of economic growth has become the stuff of legend. It has been in excess of 8 per cent for nearly two decades. China today stands near the top of the heap among the world's economies.
- Dairy An Option For Rural Youth (Tribune, Gurbhagwant Singh Kahlon, Oct 11, 2004)
There is need to create such conditions as would attract rural youth to dairy farming as an independent professional activity, on their own land or panchayat land hired on a rental basis in their villages.
- Inflation And Growth — The Policy Challenge (Business Line, Devika Mehndiratta, Oct 11, 2004)
For an economy with large unemployed resources, running a persistent current account surplus and, at the same time, raising interest rates to dampen aggregate demand and slow down economic activity, may call for simple and cautious policy solutions
- Rebel Threat In Sugar Heartland (Hindu, Javed M. Ansari , Oct 10, 2004)
If you want to see the power of the Indian politician — good and bad — you must come to the vast sugar heartland of Western Maharashtra.
- Making Poor Women Self-Reliant, Her Goal (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 10, 2004)
FORTY six years is a long time in one’s life and during this period Ela Bhatt totally dedicated herself to the uplift of poor rural women. Her selfless service was recognised in India and abroad and she was decorated with many prestigious
- Taking Over Tide Country (Telegraph, Debashis Bhattacharyya, Oct 10, 2004)
The ecologically fragile Sundarbans is already gasping for breath. And experts warn it may soon be delivered its coup de gráce.
- Maharashtra: The Last Lap (Hindu, P. SAINATH, Oct 09, 2004)
The Maharashtra Assembly election is still one that could be lost by the Congress rather than won by the Shiv Sena-BJP combine.
- Never At Home (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 09, 2004)
It takes more than a fondness for painting, farming and horse-riding to manage this ministry. And Shivraj Patil may find that out to his cost
- No Ideological Lines Drawn (Tribune, J. Sri Raman, Oct 09, 2004)
WHICH has a greater bearing on the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections
— Mr Bal Thackeray’s beard or the Shiv Sena’s ideological baggage? By all accounts thus far, the answer is unmistakable: the former.
- Saffron Siblings Vs Congress Parivar (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Oct 09, 2004)
The theme song of the moment in Maharashtra’s assembly poll, scheduled for October 13, is the shrill notes of despair emanating from the camps of the challenger and the defender alike.
- Extrapolating The Growth Estimates (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 09, 2004)
Recently released economic data for the first quarter of the fiscal year give room for optimism. According to preliminary estimates of the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO), the Gross Domestic Product grew by 7.4 per cent during
- Adb's Country Strategy And Programme 2005-07 (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 09, 2004)
The 2005-07 India lending programme of the Asian Development Bank is focussed on building infrastructure, the lack of which has hobbled the various sectors and is responsible for the high inter-regional disparities.
- Sharing Water Resources (Hindu, T. Ramakrishnan, Oct 08, 2004)
The Ganga Water Treaty between India and Bangladesh stands out as an example on river-water sharing.
- Make Them Service Centres (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 08, 2004)
At a time when the Department of Posts, now popularly known as Indiapost, is celebrating its 150th anniversary, there is a real opportunity to take stock and see how the huge network of
- How To Lift Income By 8.9% (The Economic Times, Pradeep S. Mehta, Oct 08, 2004)
The government headed by Dr Manmohan Singh speaks about 8% growth as something to aim for and achieve over the next few years, and reforming with Mungeri Lal’s face in mind.
- Teach Agriculture To Rural Students (Tribune, Inderdeep Thapar, Oct 07, 2004)
Why is it that agriculture as a subject has not been introduced at the school level? The geography of the region, with district-wise illustrations and detailed information about the types of soil, the crops which can be sown, the depth of the watertable
- Village Energy Security (Hindu, Indrani Bagchi, Oct 07, 2004)
In India, non-conventional energy resources remain untapped in the absence of policy directions.
- World Development Report — An Agenda For Peace And Prosperity (Business Line, G. Srinivasan , Oct 07, 2004)
As Economic growth is the only sustainable way to raise a society's standard of living, the wherewithal to achieve this assumes overarching priority in any development strategy.
- Demography And P&p Sector — Age Bomb, A Trigger For Outsourcing (Business Line, R. Vaidyanathan, Oct 07, 2004)
The aging population of the developed countries, coupled with a desire of the workers for fewer hours, is a ticking time-bomb. The Proprietorship and Partnership sector will be tremendously impacted in the coming decades because of the tectonic shift ...
- Rabi Prospects (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 07, 2004)
Even as the kharif harvest gathers momentum, it is clear that actual output of several crops — rice, coarse grain, pulses, and oilseeds — will not only fall considerably below the target but also short of the kharif 2003 output.
- Another Growth Portent (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Oct 07, 2004)
That there has not been a single default in Crisil's rated portfolio of more than 500 companies in the first six months of the current fiscal, a first in the last 10 years, is indicative of a vastly improved financial health of corporate India.
- Economy Booming (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 07, 2004)
Growth in the first quarter may not continue for the rest of the year
- Still A Long Shot (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 06, 2004)
Had the India Meteorological Department been a bookmaker, it would have lost a packet. In April it predicted that rainfall in this year's southwest monsoon from June 1 to September 30 would be normal, in fact, 100 per cent of the long-term average.
- E.U.'S Real Problem With Turkey (Hindu, Richard Adams, Oct 06, 2004)
The real problem about Turkey joining the European Union is not religion but its size and economic weakness.
- Agrarian Crisis In Andhra Pradesh (Business Line, C. P. Chandrasekhar, Oct 05, 2004)
The extensive nature of the agrarian crisis in Andhra Pradesh is now widely known. But it is not more generally recognised that what has already happened in that State is actually replicating itself to varying degrees across rural India.
- Growing Pains (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Oct 04, 2004)
How much will real gross domestic product growth in 2004-05 be? Given the high base following 8.2 per cent growth in 2003-04 and the negative impact of the monsoon, most forecasters will bet on around 6.5 per cent, about 0.5 per cent having been shaved of
- Indian Tv Lacks Innovation (Tribune, Chanchal Sarkar, Oct 03, 2004)
IN this big sprawling house in Bhagalpur Bihar by the broad, soft flowing Ganga, it’s difficult to adjust to the topography. There’s an entrance here and an entrance there, at least three places where dinner can be served; wide verandhas moulded ...
- Haryanvi’S Moment Of Pride (Tribune, Harihar Swarup , Oct 03, 2004)
ONE wonders if cricket still remains the gentlemen’s game, judging by petty manipulation witnessed in what should have been a routine election of the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Never before election to a sports body has seen intrigue of ...
- Back With A Bang (Telegraph, Amit Roy, Oct 03, 2004)
He is a scientist and — unusually — he also writes. And just when science seemed to be going out of academic fashion, Simon Singh has hit home with his new book on creation.
- A New Agenda For Strategic Partnership: British Envoy (Tribune, Rajeev Sharma, Oct 03, 2004)
IN his 32-year-long diplomatic career, Sir Michael Arthur has been places, literally. He has served in the United Nations, Brussels, Kinshasa, Bonn, Paris and Washington before coming to New Delhi as the British High Commissioner last year.
- Gem Of A Clip (Deccan Herald, ANIL CHINTAMANI, Oct 02, 2004)
When companionship options are limited, even a stationery article can offer some warmth
- Ballad Of A Thin Man (Telegraph, Bob Dylan, Oct 02, 2004)
His memoirs have found their way to the press weeks ahead of their appearance between covers. And everyone’s hoping they’ll unwrap a bit of the riddle
- Oh, What A Lovely Election! (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 02, 2004)
Cricket has long been a metaphor for fair play, even if William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915), the English progenitor of modern batting and crowd-puller nonpareil, exhibited an approach and spirit that seem almost contemporary.
- They Also Serve, But By Making Things Difficult (Business Line, Mohan R. Lavi, Oct 02, 2004)
The Roos' law states thus: "If there is a harder way of doing something, someone will find it." The makers of service tax law in India seem to fit the bill perfectly.
- Running Well (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Oct 02, 2004)
If the Indian economy can sprint at 7.4 per cent in the second and third laps, as it has in the first, the effort will be worth a few cheers. The current account is in surplus while a higher trade deficit of $6.3 billion ($5.56 billion) indicates a rise
- Politicians’ Antics In The Public Eye (Deccan Herald, Khushwant Singh, Oct 02, 2004)
There are two things politicians know well how to do: One is to exploit people for their own benefit; and the other is how to remain in the public eye. The first is done by a simple trick known from ancient times: when riding on a donkey’s back have ...
- A Terror In Every Bush (Telegraph, ASHOK MITRA , Oct 01, 2004)
Thus spake the army chief of staff: as if the Armed Services (Special Powers) Act applies not just to Kashmir or Manipur, but to the entire country, including its judicial process.
- Yuan: The Hero Turns Villain (Business Line, M.R. Venkatesh, Oct 01, 2004)
Given the large trade imbalance between the US and China, a recent US Government report argues that the yuan should be revalued upward.
- A Close Call (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Sep 30, 2004)
The edge in the Maharashtra polls appears to be with the Congress-NCP alliance
- On The Rise (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 30, 2004)
The oil price that started falling last month is back on the upswing, crossing the $50 a barrel level on Tuesday. The upturn is attributed to a number of factors.
Previous 100 Agriculture Articles | Next 100 Agriculture Articles
Home
Page
|
|
