Needed – A Rethink on Assessing Agriculture’s Real Contribution to India’s Economy “True, the service and industry sectors are engines of economic growth, but the fuel that powers the engines comes from agriculture. That’s why the entire economy catches a cold...
Importance of Agriculture in Indian Economy & Development Innovative, Progressive, Competitive, Vibrant and Very Different by CENTEGRO | Nov 24, 2019 It was Elizabeth Noelle Neumann, a German political scientist (1916-2010) who introduced the “spiral of silence”...
Solid Facts About Water It is ironical, the richer we become, the more resources we consume, the longer we live, the more pessimistic we become about the future and start panicking in the present. The latest panic mongering is about vanishing water. “Future wars will...
Pesticides are Toxins; so are Medicines & Foods The word toxin (poison) is frequently understood to mean pesticides. A toxin i.e. poison can be natural or synthetic substance-either solid, liquid or gas- and need not necessarily be pesticide. Toxicology is a...
Give agriculture its due Like financial literacy, knowledge of agriculture too is a must for every Indian Recently, Raghuram Rajan, governor, Reserve Bank of India, had stressed the need for increasing ‘financial literacy’ among Indians and proposed its inclusion in...
