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Agricultural crisis: Why BJP's poll promise of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 is a lofty ambition

Doubling farmers’ inflation-adjusted income from the current levels, say in six years, will be possible if the government acts in mission mode.

Farm loan waivers kill credit culture, need to focus on agri distress resolution: Former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan

Loan waivers cover only those farmers who have taken loans from the formal system, Raghuram Rajan said

Firstpost Editor's Picks: India-Pakistan tensions, Real Madrid out for revenge, loan waiver; today's must-read stories

So, for the most part, looking back over last week’s fast developing news, we don’t know so many things about the air strikes, much like the surgical strike in 2016. The first confusion was over where Balakot was located, since there are two places with that name — one along the Indian Line of Control.

Kisan Kranti Yatra: Farmers' march turns violent at Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, police use tear gas to disperse protesters

Farmers were stopped near UP-Delhi border and police used water cannons to disperse protesters after a few farmers broke the barricades.

'Nobody can make authentic statement on job creation as there are no reliable data', says SBI Chairman

Jobs in the manufacturing sector has seen a reduction due to use of technology and there was a lot of 'disguised unemployment.

'Govt luring farmers with peanuts': Union Budget allocation gets lukewarm response from agrarian sector

Several farmers said after Finance Minister Piyush Goyal finished presenting this government’s last budget that it had not swayed them to vote for Narendra Modi’s BJP.

Inflation in 2018: Data shows price rise within comfort zone, but farmers hit due to low prices for agri produce

The latest data puts retail inflation for November at the year's lowest level of 2.33%, mainly due to low prices of food articles, coupled with deflation in some agricultural products—which is a good news for consumers as well as the government and the RBI.

Rural distress: Loan waiver is no panacea; govt should dilute monopoly of APMCs for marketing of agricultural produce

Statutorily imposed marketing rigidities in agricultural commodities and other farm produce erect another impediment in the growth of rural sectors

Farm distress: Govt addressing issues through piecemeal measures; need to integrate all schemes to make sector more resilient

It is clear that we are not really looking for a permanent solution and addressing the problem through piecemeal measures that have a good announcement impact.

Agrarian crisis: Bias against agriculture needs to go for revival; higher investment, change in attitude towards sector a must

More attention to agriculture by way of higher investment and positive attitudinal changes, therefore, may actually bring about better economic dividends and put India into a higher development trajectory like other Asian nations. The sooner this is realised, the better it would be to revitalise agriculture and rural economy.