Project and Policy – Mannira

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What is eNAM? Between a Dream and Reality

March 3, 2018October 16, 2020 Ragesh Dipu 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

Lack of infrastructure facilities like assaying framework, quality testing machines, internet, computers, and other support mechanisms also impede the full-fledged implementation of eNAM. An efficient physical and financial payments infrastructure are also inevitable to gain the confidence of farmers and traders.

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Age of Urban Farming and the Next Revolution in Agriculture

February 17, 2018September 20, 2020 Ragesh Dipu Agri revolution, Agriculture, Aquaculture, Aquaponics, City farming, Farming in Indian cities, Golden farming, Hydroponics, Indoor farming, Modern farming, Organic 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, 2018October 16, 2020 Ragesh Dipu 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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A Walk on the Sickle’s Edge: When Looking for Farmers in the Union Budget 2018

February 7, 2018April 8, 2018 Ragesh Dipu Agri Budget, Agri Market, Budget 2018, Demonetisation, eNAM, Farmer Producer Companies, farming mechanisation, Food Corporation of India, Gramin Agricultural Market, GST, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Minimum Support Price, MNREGA, National Bamboo Mission, National Democratic Alliance, Operation Green, Union Budget, Union budget 2018

A series of historic events that cause far-reaching implications often starts, as always in the history books, with unbelievably trivial

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How Kudumbashree Redeemed the Fallen Agrarian Angels as Agripreneurs

December 2, 2017April 8, 2018 Ragesh Dipu Agripreneurs, Backward classes, Caste System Kerala, Joint Liability Groups, Kudumbashree, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Socio-economic lives of women, Women's empowerment

All was serene and good in Eden until Lilith, the first woman of the human race, according to Jewish folklore,