India Has Tested Its Soil Twice. The Second Time, a Machine Chose the Spot.
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Read the piece →PMFBY Advertises a 5:1 Return to Farmers. Farmers Put In About a Fifth of the Premium. Governments Put In the Rest.
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Read the piece →The Wage Beats the Crop — In the Survey That Leaves the Wage-Earners Out
India's official farm-household income survey finds that wages, not crop production, are the largest source of a farm household'...
Read the piece →India Irrigates Itself. 96.6% of Its Irrigation Schemes Are Privately Owned.
India's own irrigation census counted 23.14 million minor irrigation schemes as of 2017-18 — 96.6% of them privately owned, 94.8% dr...
Read the piece →Rural India's Farm-Employment Share Dropped 5.6 Points in Six Months. Structural Shift or Just the Season? The Data Can't Yet Say.
India's own quarterly labour-force bulletins show rural agriculture's share of employment falling 5.6 percentage points in just ...
Read the piece →57.7% of India's Plant-Variety Certificates Are Cereals. Its $4.45 Billion Spice Trade Has 151.
India's Plant Variety Authority has issued 10,885 certificates as of 31 August 2026, and 57.7% of them are cereals — the crop group ...
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