Reportage Self help groups in Uttar Pradesh learn to use the mobile phone as marketing tool Rural women who run self-help groups are not short of confidence, but struggle to market their products. Social Saheli, a...
Reportage Waste and Want: 50 kg of food a person wasted every year, while 14% Indians malnourished According to the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution, between 2017 and 2020, 11,520 tonnes of food grains...
Reportage Amid bad harvest, Indian Govt approves import of 400,000 metric tonnes urad dal from Myanmar Bad harvest back home and political instability in Myanmar made the Indian government approve 400,000 metric tonnes of Urad dal...
Reportage Scalding the pocket: Fuel, cooking oil, onion and pulses get more expensive Although rising fuel prices have been most talked about, consumers have also been impacted by the hike in the prices...
Reportage Budget 2021-22: Crores declared for sugar mills, but what about farmers’ money withheld by them? Sugar mills across the country have withheld payments running into crores to sugarcane farmers. The budget for 2021-22 has nothing...
Reportage Why Bihar’s paddy finds welcome in the mandis and rice mills of Telangana Farmers in Bihar prefer to sell their paddy to traders and middlemen in Telangana that not just procures a huge...
Reportage MSP: How Telangana, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh increased procurement of paddy and wheat at MSP? Maharashtra’s bonus of Rs 700 a quintal to paddy farmers, improved irrigation in Telangana, and ease of procurement in Madhya...
Reportage More farmers in Telangana and Madhya Pradesh benefit from MSP than those in Punjab and Haryana In the Kharif season of 2019-20, paddy was procured at MSP from 1.98 million farmers of Telangana versus 1.16 million...
Reportage Bihar rice mill scam: A decade later, 2000 rice mills still shut in the state; paddy procurement 25% of the total production Rice mills in Bihar took a pounding a decade ago when 2,000 of the total 3,000 mills in the state...
Reportage|Gaon Connection Survey 44% rural citizens willing to pay for the corona vaccine; two-third want its price to not exceed Rs 500: Gaon Connection Survey Two-third of those who are willing to pay for the vaccine want its price not to exceed Rs 500. Another...
