GUWAHATI The Consultative Committee of Planters’ Associations (CCPA) has set certain conditions for the proposed distribution of tea estate land patta (ownership) among plantation workers in Assam. On November 25, the Assam government tabled the Assam Fixation of Ceiling on Land Holdings (Amendment) Bill, 2025, aimed at removing labour lines from the “ancillary land” category...
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November 20, 2025November 20, 2025Assam
India’s fisheries and aquaculture, its promising course
Fisheries and aquaculture are among India’s fastest-growing food-producing sectors, playing a vital role in livelihoods, nutrition, and trade. Over the decades, India has witnessed remarkable growth in aquatic food production that is driven by technological innovation, institutional support and proactive policy measures. Yet, the sector faces critical challenges. Overfishing, habitat degradation, water pollution and climate...
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November 18, 2025November 18, 2025Assam
Time to sort out India’s cereal mess
The recent controversy in Tamil Nadu over paddy procurement during the short-term kuruvai season has only strengthened the need for a relook at the procurement system of foodgrains as a whole. In this case — as in many States — the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC), which procures paddy on behalf of the Food...
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November 13, 2025November 13, 2025Assam
Centre suspends over 4,000 fertiliser distributor licences on hoarding charges
The Union Department of Fertilisers has cancelled or suspended 4,298 licences and the registration of fertiliser distributers for black marketing, hoarding, and diversion of stocks. The Ministry had earlier issued 8,777 show cause notices to the erring traders, and 547 FIRs have so far been registered nationwide. In a release, the department said it conducted...
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India’s horticulture sector to get hi-tech boost with Dutch initiative for pesticide-free food production in high-end green houses
India’s horticultural sector is set to get a hi-tech boost powered by AI for precision, as the Dutch government has embarked on a collaborative project in India to help produce pesticide-free food in state-of-the-art green houses that focus on water conservation and energy efficiency. The initiative focuses on technologies and practices that help produce food...
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October 24, 2025October 24, 2025Assam, Madhya Pradesh
Trouble in ‘soy State’: Madhya Pradesh soybean farmers lose interest over multiple factors
Arvind Singh Rathore was born in 1989, which was the year before his grandfather, (late) Thakur Datar Singh Rathore, and his father, Thakur Santosh Singh Rathore, began cultivating soybean on their ancestral farmland in Muradpura, a village on the outskirts of Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The oilseed was quite new to farmers in this area...
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October 14, 2025October 14, 2025Assam
A green advantage in tractor exports
The government’s recent decision to cut the Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate on tractors to 5% is a timely boost for farmers and manufacturers alike. Lower costs are expected to accelerate mechanisation at home, contributing to a stronger domestic manufacturing base to support exports abroad. Yet the global regulatory landscape for such exports is...
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September 23, 2025September 23, 2025Assam
Why is India not importing corn from the U.S.? | Explained
The story so far: Among the key areas of disagreement between the U.S. and India regarding trade is a demand that India should import U.S. corn. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said that India has 1.4 billion people but does not import a single bushel of corn from the U.S. (25 kg approximately). Does...
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September 12, 2025September 12, 2025Assam
Fatter, more biosecure: Pig mission in Assam’s BTR has European imprint
GUWAHATI A biosecure nuclear breeding farm and model fattener farms are fuelling the drive of a tribal council in Assam to become the hub of quality pig production for the pork-loving northeast India and beyond. In 2021, the authorities of the Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) turned to Europe for a project to elevate the traditional...
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August 19, 2025August 19, 2025Assam
A tribute to M.S. Swaminathan, ‘the man who fed India’
The Viksit Bharat aspiration, which has gained considerable momentum, will require a significant development of scientific capability, and some of this, especially in the new digital economy, will have to be aatmanirbhar. There is much to learn in this context from the most successful experiment in atmanirbharata in the past, which was the achievement of...