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What is eNAM? Between a Dream and Reality

March 3, 2018April 9, 2018 Ragesh Dipu 0 Comments Agriculture Produce Market Committee Act, APMC Act, BHIM, e-mandis, electronic marketplace for agri commodities, electronic National Agricultural Market, eNAM, mandi ecosystem, Mobile payment facility, Modi Government, Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium

In April 2016, the Modi government launched electronic National Agricultural Market (eNAM), as ceremoniously as many of its projects, which

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Land Acquisition: The Last Straw that Break the Indian Farmers’ Back?

February 25, 2018April 9, 2018 Ragesh Dipu 0 Comments Agribusiness, Agriculture land acquisition, Amaravati Land Pooling, Bengal Regulation Act, Displacement of agri labourers, Farm distress, Globalised Indian economy, Land acquisition, Land Acquisition Act, Land Acquisition Act 2013, Land acquisition in India, Land acquisition in post-independent India, Land acquisition laws, Land Pooling Scheme (LPS) Andhra, Liberalisation

Sarnath, Dwaraka, Ujjain, Kalibangan, Muziris, yes, India is a country of ancient cities and civilisations. The history of the urban

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Age of Urban Farming and the Next Revolution in Agriculture

February 17, 2018April 9, 2018 Ragesh Dipu 1 Comment Agri revolution, Aquaculture, Aquaponics, City farming, Farming in Indian cities, Hydroponics, Indoor farming, Modern farming, Outdoor farming, Rooftop agriculture, Terrace farming, Terrace farming in India, Urban farming

Somewhere, we have read that the history of agriculture is also the history of technology. If we tweak the sentence

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Cold Storage and Indian Agriculture: The Cold Future of a Sleeping Giant

February 11, 2018April 8, 2018 Ragesh Dipu 2 Comments Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, Cold chain, Cold storage, Cold storage units, cold-chain infrastructure, Crisil study, Food preservation, Food wastage, Frederick McKinley Jones, Operation Green, Rural distress

In the mid-January 2018, the road to Bhimakpura village of Uttar Pradesh (UP) was reeking with a rotten smell of

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Organic Farming: Breaking the Puritan Myth and Searching for the Truth

February 3, 2018February 12, 2018 Ragesh Dipu 2 Comments Agro-capitalism, Chemical fertilizers, Conventional farming, Crop production, Global food market, Green Revolution, Healthy food, Integrated Pest Management system, Livestock feed, Organic farming, Organic food products, Pesticides, Resistant to pests, Rural employment, Scientific farming, Scientific Farming Methods, Technological monopoly

A: “What do you think about organic food products?” B: “They are nice.” A: “Just like that?” B: ”It’s also

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Winter is Coming, and so are the Hilsa

November 30, 2017November 30, 2017 Keshav Vivek 2 Comments Hilsa, Ilish, maritime culture, Pallo, Palva, Polasa, Pulasa, Ullam, Valava

Europeans and North Americans have their Salmon. South Asians have their Hilsa (as the fish is known to English-speaking Indians),

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[Part 2] Nelore: How a Telugu Cattle Breed Transformed Brazil

November 25, 2017November 30, 2017 Keshav Vivek 1 Comment Animal Husbandry, Brazil Cattle Growing, Grazing Zebus, Nelore Bull, Telugu Cattle Breed, Zebu

The Nelore/Ongole breed accounts for as many as 100 million heads of cattle in Brazil. This is evidence of the

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[Part 1] Nelore: How a Telugu Cattle Breed Transformed Brazil

November 25, 2017November 30, 2017 Keshav Vivek 3 Comments Animal Husbandry, Brazil Cattle Growing, Grazing Zebus, Telugu Cattle Breed, Zebu

India is famous as the land of cattle. There are innumerable breeds of cattle to be found in South Asia.

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From Forgotten Mother Goddesses to Stolen Seeds

November 3, 2017December 13, 2017 Ragesh Dipu 1 Comment agriculture and patriarchal society, Blood, Bread and Roses, History of agriculture, Judy Grahn, Monsanto, Venus of Willendorf, Womanhood and soil

In 1908, everything was quite normal while an archeological team conducting their excavations near Willendorf, a calm village in Austria.

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