Ramesh Chand

India was the first country in the world to enact a legal right to food through the NFSA in 2013

Maize has emerged as India's fastest-growing field crop, boosting productivity, sustainability and farmer incomes while offering an alternative to surplus rice cultivation

MS Swaminathan's contributions extend far beyond the Green Revolution

India needs to develop its biotechnology capacity for crops like soybean as it has done for rice

From 2022 to 2024, India earned $5.75 bn per year from agri-export to the US, which constituted one-tenth of India's agri exports to the world. In the same period, India imported agricultural product

An agriculture worker in China generates merely one-fourth of the income generated by a non-agricultural worker. India and Vietnam are close to China while Indonesia shows lower disparity

The formidable agriculture scientist's vision can be of help in the challenges Indian agriculture faces now

Coined the term 'technology fatigue' in relation to agriculture

Blaming farmers will not solve the problem. Stopping free power for irrigation and the transfer of the same subsidy to farmers in other forms alone will make a significant difference

How PM-KISAN scores over loan waivers and Rythu Bandhu