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The Krishi Sakhi Initiative empowers women farmers by improving crop insurance access and digital literacy. To overcome low land ownership, experts advocate for "Cultivator Certificates" to decouple insurance from titles, ensuring credit and climate resilience for India’s growing female workforce.
Click to View MoreThe Mission for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses (2025) targets self-sufficiency by 2030–31 through higher yields, expanded cultivation, and assured procurement. With digital tracking and cluster-based strategies, it aims to reduce import dependence, stabilize markets, and ensure sustainable nutritional and agricultural security.
Click to View MoreFarm loan waivers provide short-term relief to indebted farmers but create long-term problems. They strain government finances, weaken credit discipline, and often exclude farmers dependent on informal loans. Sustainable solutions require structural reforms, stronger agricultural infrastructure, and direct income support schemes like PM-KISAN.
Click to View MoreCassava Brown Streak Disease is spreading across Africa, threatening food security. Transmitted by whiteflies and infected cuttings, it causes root rot in cassava, a key staple. The crisis drives economic losses and hunger, especially among women farmers, demanding resistant varieties, clean seeds, and stronger global cooperation.
Click to View MoreBharat-VISTAAR is a multilingual AI platform aiming to transform Indian agriculture by combining AgriStack farmer data with scientific inputs from ICAR. It promises personalized advisories and higher incomes, but its impact depends on bridging the digital divide, safeguarding data privacy, and strengthening last-mile extension support.
Click to View MoreThe Economic Survey 2025–26 flags a conflict between energy and food security as ethanol incentives drive maize expansion at the cost of pulses and oilseeds. This shift risks higher imports and price volatility, prompting calls to prioritise second-generation biofuels and raise food crop productivity.
Click to View MoreGroundwater crisis, driven by over-extraction, pollution, and weak governance, threatens food and water security. While Atal Bhujal Yojana and NAQUIM signal a demand-side shift, long-term sustainability needs integrated governance, tech adoption, and rationalised farm-energy subsidies, as urged by the Mihir Shah Committee.
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 MoreWinter heatwaves, driven by jet-stream weakening, atmospheric blocking, and global warming, are emerging risks for India. They threaten rabi crops, ecosystems, and winter tourism. Despite steps under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, India needs stronger mitigation, better early warnings, and adaptive water and farm management to respond effectively.
Click to View MoreThe PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana (2025) aims to transform 100 low-performing agri-districts through convergence of 36 existing schemes across 11 ministries, backed by an annual outlay of ₹24,000 crore for six years. The scheme focuses on improving productivity, crop diversification, irrigation, post-harvest infrastructure, and credit access while integrating allied sectors like horticulture, fisheries, and animal husbandry. Implementation is driven by district-level planning, three-tier governance, NITI Aayog’s technical support, and a digital dashboard with 117 KPIs. Targeted to benefit 1.7 crore farmers, PMDDKY seeks to create resilient, sustainable, and market-oriented agricultural ecosystems aligned with Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Click to View MoreClimate change is increasingly affecting India’s commercial crops through rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, soil degradation, and higher pest incidence. Crops like tea, coffee, rice, wheat, and sugarcane face reduced yields and quality, threatening farmer livelihoods and export competitiveness. Government initiatives such as the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, and programs by the Tea and Coffee Boards aim to enhance climate resilience through climate-smart varieties, water management, pest control, and insurance. Adoption of sustainable practices, crop diversification, and technology integration are essential for safeguarding productivity and ensuring long-term agricultural sustainability.
Click to View MoreIndia’s dairy sector, anchored by initiatives like Operation Flood, Rashtriya Gokul Mission, NAIP, and White Revolution 2.0, has transformed the country into the world’s largest milk producer. It supports over 80 million farmers, empowers women through cooperatives, ensures nutritional security, and drives rural livelihoods. Ongoing reforms in infrastructure, breeding, sustainability, and GST rationalization aim to enhance productivity, promote inclusive growth, and strengthen India’s global competitiveness in dairy.
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