India has emerged as the world’s largest rice producer due to assured MSP procurement, expanding cultivation area and strong export demand. However, excessive dependence on paddy has led to water stress, high fiscal costs, surplus stocks and poor crop diversification, making a shift toward pulses, oilseeds and millets essential for sustainable and nutrition-secure agriculture.
Click to View MoreIndian farm subsidies are fiscally unsustainable, ecologically harmful, and distortionary, favoring water-intensive crops and larger farmers. The solution lies in rationalisation, not removal: shift to DBT and redirect savings toward R&D, infrastructure, and climate-smart agriculture to build a resilient, competitive, and inclusive farm sector.
Click to View MoreIndia, the world’s largest groundwater user, faces a deepening crisis due to unchecked extraction, weak regulation, and distorted subsidies. Despite CGWA and Atal Bhujal Yojana, depletion persists. Sustainable solutions need demand-side management, stronger laws, and community-led, decentralised groundwater governance.
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