Tag: Agricultural

Policy Update Ayan BordoloiBackgroundOver the past decade and more, the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) has evolved from a standalone climate-adaptation-focused mission into...

Policy UpdateRaushan RajBackground India has developed a large number of agricultural and farmer-welfare schemes covering income support, crop insurance, irrigation, credit, infrastructure, and allied activities....

Policy UpdateTulsi KumariIntroductionIndia is the world’s second largest agricultural producer, however it contributes to only 2.35% share of global agricultural exports as of 2022....

A. Amarender ReddyLand rights shape access to credit, subsidies, insurance, and power within the household, and it is the foundation of economic security for...

Policy UpdateChetan GuptaBackground:National Food Security Mission (NFSM) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme launched in October 2007. The National Development Council (NDC) adopted a resolution...

Urvashi SinghalPolicy UpdateBackgroundIndia is known to be a country with high biodiversity and a vast array of domesticated crop species and their wild relatives....

Policy UpdateRounak PandaBackgroundIndia’s development trajectory—urbanization, industrialization, and agricultural intensification—has unintentionally sired a parallel crisis of waste creation. Municipal authorities struggle with over 65 million...

Policy UpdateMeyhar Kaur WaliaBackgroundThe Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme was introduced in August 1998 to provide term loans for the agricultural needs of farmers....

Riya RawatIntroductionIndia, home to one of the largest agricultural economies in the world, depends on farming not just for food security but as a...

TK ArunEver since early humans conflated the fertility of their own kind with that of the land and worshipped this source of abundance of...