Vivian Fernandes

Allocation for agriculture must signal change in favour of science, tech, private investments

India's population growing but not exploding; Narendra Modi's new found concern can be used to communalise issue

Farmers plant unapproved GM cotton seeds against govt apathy over technology approval; what is the way out?

Union Budget 2019-20: Govt needs to allocate more fund to bring Green Revolution to eastern India

Haryana’s Bt brinjal row: Govt must allow farmers to have access to technologies in agriculture to dissuade illegal use of seeds

Stray cattle menace Part 3: With cattle trade seized up, will the 'cow belt' soon become 'buffalo country'?

Stray cattle menace: MP farmers lose sleep over threat to crops from bovines; govt looks for answers in gaushalas

Kanpur tanneries forced to shut for Kumbh Mela, still wait for govt orders to restart; only 26 units out of 266 operational

Govt reduces Bt Cotton seed prices: Industry sulks at agri ministry’s order; agbiotech companies feel the heat

Rash of loan write-offs: YV Reddy proposes agri-risk fund as alternative with Kerala’s Debt Relief Commission as model

Railways escapes glare of slippages in interim Budget 2019; capex falls short while total spend overshoots estimates

Budget 2019: Narendra Modi govt has gone back to Congress' 'Garibi Hatao' in same tax-and-spend way

Govt unlikely to get into a twist over budget propriety by replacing fertiliser subsidy with cash transfers

Vibrant Gujarat Summits have not helped state improve FDI ranking; focus should be on dynamic Gujarati society

BJP’s politics of polarisation paves way for Uttar Pradesh’s stray cattle menace, economically cripples a huge population

CSE's Study on GM food is flawed and needlessly alarmist, states expert

MSP hike: Revised purchase price alone won't sustain higher farm incomes; yields have to improve and costs must fall