Prachi Salve, August 8, 2014 (This article has been updated to reflect additional information) It’s a bit of a mystery question. Reason is most data tells you that more than half of India’s population lives on or off agriculture. But does it really ? The World Trade Organization General Council which met on July 24-25 failed …
Leaving farmers to reap the bitter harvest
Devinder Sharma January 19, 2014 A day after Parliament approved foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail in December 2012, a newspaper report highlighted how a big retail company was exploiting both the farmers as well as the consumers: the wholesale cash-n-carry Bharti-Walmart enterprise, the report said, was buying baby corn from contract growers in Punjab …