Africa agriculture trade monitor 2023
The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including
Cotton
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Institutional failure and farmers' suicides in Andhra Pradesh
Small and marginal farmers are the worst hit by the problems that afflict agriculture. The macro and micro level factors together have created stress among the poor farmers forcing them to commit suicide.
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Poor regulation good reason to sideline Bt brinjal
While passing an interim order staying field trials of genetically modified (gm) crops, the Supreme Court had observed on September 22, that the proceedings of the Genetic Engineering Approval
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UPDATE
The trend of cotton farmers' suicides in Vidarbha keeps showing an upward spike since prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the area in early July and the announcement of a package for the
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Maharashtra CM for Art of Living to check Vidarbha suicides
it has been less than two months since prime minister Manmohan Singh visited Vidarbha, Maharashtra's cotton country, with a special package for the beleaguered farmers. Since then 200 more farmers
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Bt fails in China
The developing countries' wide acceptance of genetically modified seeds owes much to China
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Government's relief for Maharashtra farmers not enough
Pro farmer government shows its colours
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Government's decision on public sector units bad news for neo liberal economists
A fall out of neo liberal economics
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Vidarbha compensation package inadequate
Price support, not loans, can save Vidarbha farmers
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Monsanto at the receiving end of Bt cotton pricing policy
Monsanto losing price war with state governments
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Pricing problem
State governments have fixed Bt cotton prices at Rs 750 per 450-gramme packet. Is there a basis for this figure?