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Vivian Fernandes

Vivian Fernandes is editor of www.smartindianagricuture.in, a website devoted to promoting modern practices in agriculture including use of genetically-engineered seeds.

ITC’s Sivakumar Suggests Strategy For Sustainable Improvement In Farmers’ Incomes

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A farmer manually threshes the rice crop on a drum at Suchetgarh village in Jammu, India. (Nitin Kanotra/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

We Are Driving Demand for Millets; Supply will Follow: Karnataka Agri Minister K Byre Gowda

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Karnataka’s Minister for Agriculture Krishna Byre Gowda (@krishnabyregowda.official/ Facebook.com)

How To Save Vidarbha and Marathwada Farmers From Debt Traps And Self-Engineered Deaths?

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A soybean farm. (Scott Olson/GettyImages)

How Indian Agriculture Can Move Beyond The Boom-Bust Cycles

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Farming in India

Israel In Our Farms

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Israeli farm (David Silverman/Getty Images)

Livestock Laws: Meet Nuggehalli Jayasimha, The Lawyer Who Triggered It All

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Nuggehalli Jayasimha

Confusion, Corruption & Extortion: Unintended Consequences Of Illegal Slaughterhouse Ban In UP

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Yogi Adityanath (Twitter.com/@myogiadityanath) 

Setback To Monsanto As Delhi HC Overrules Trait Fees, Revokes Franchise Termination

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7y Food
Adeel Halim/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Pusa Institute: Once At The Forefront Of Green Revolution, It Has Now Lost Steam

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Researchers and students in a lab at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. (Sumeet Inder Singh/The India Today Group/Getty Images)

Why The World Loves To Hate GM Crops Despite Overwhelming Scientific Evidence In Its Favour

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Anti-GM protestors

Dal Prices Again—This Time It’s The Farmers At Receiving End

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Pigeonpea 

Gujarat Model Or This NGO’s Model, Which One Is Ideal For Our Tribal Farmers?

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A farmer dries maize on a highway side road in Thoopran Mandal in Medak District, some 60 km from Hyderabad. (NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images)

Release GM Mustard And Bt Brinjal for Cultivation Now: RCGM Chairman B Sesikaran

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Mustard in India (STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)

No Relief: If Bad Weather Didn’t Hit Farmers In 2016, Modi Govt’s Agri Policy Did

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Agricultural reforms need of the hour. (Narinder Nanu/GettyImages

At The Country’s Biggest Fruit And Vegetable Market, Goods Are Changing Hands, Not Cash

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Azadpur mandi

Agri-business Leaders Debate Digital Agriculture When Demonetisation Exposes Rural India’s Disconnect With Digital Economy

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Getty Images

It’s Time For E-Farmers 

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E-NAM

Why The Akshayakalpa Agri-Experiment In Karnataka May Well Grow Into A Movement 

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Akshayakalpa 

Corporates Must Promote Conservation Agriculture in Punjab To End the Menace of Stubble-Burning in Fields  

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Paddy stubble burning in Punjab (NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

Government Acts Tough On Anti-GM Mustard Activists In Top Court, Says They Twist Facts For Ideological Reasons 

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An Indian farmer walks through a mustard field in Baran village near Patiala. Photo credit: STRDEL/AFP/GettyImages.

Back To The Future

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Cotton plant 

After Seed Industry Split, Agriculture Ministry Should Remember To Do No Harm

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Indian farmers process mustard seeds in Alwar district of the western state of Rajasthan. (SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)

To Be Free To Sell, A Farmer Cannot Be Beholden To The Lender

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An Indian farmer relaxes at a grain market near Hamirgarh, Punjab (PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

We Can Double Farmers’ Real Incomes In Seven Years. Here’s How

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Photo: NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images

Regulation, Not Capability, Is The Entry Barrier In Agri-Biotechnology

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Photo: NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images

How Long Must We Wait?

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Bt cotton has raised our country’s production severalfold. In 2014-15, India became the world’s second largest cotton producer, after China.

[Video] What Ails Indian Agri And How To Improve Farm Incomes On Sustainable Basis

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Farmer

Not Policing, But Right Policies Needed to Curb Food Price Inflation

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Onions in India (NARINDER NANU/AFP/Getty Images)

Farmers Report Higher Profits From Desi Varieties Than Bt Cotton

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Cotton

Kelkar Report On Regional Imbalances Has Solutions For Marathwada

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Man walks through a dry pond in Odisha (Photo credits: ASIT KUMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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