Features – Mannira

What is eNAM? Between a Dream and Reality

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

February 25, 2018October 17, 2020 Ragesh Dipu 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, 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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Organic Farming: Breaking the Puritan Myth and Searching for the Truth

February 3, 2018September 20, 2020 Ragesh Dipu Agro-capitalism, Chemical fertilizers, Conventional farming, Crop production, farmer, 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, vertical farming

While the outset of organic farming was a conscious reaction of farmers around the world against the high yielding crop varieties, chemical fertilizers and pesticides and their disastrous social, ecological and economic consequences, it is interesting to analyse the role of organic farming in India, a country experienced the best and worst of the green revolution.