Several schemes initiated by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) have helped the rural people immensely and paved way to make them economically self-reliant.
The maxim ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ plays out daily in our lives. On the one hand, tax collections, Sensex and sales of high-end vehicles are at record levels and people were seen queuing up to buy gold on Dhanteras but on the other, the subsidised ration scheme had to be extended for five years and the extraordinarily large number of people applying for work under MNREGA, resulted in budgeted funds getting exhausted by mid-year.
As rising temperatures make farming more resource hungry, countries in the Global South have been compelled to come up with measures to ensure the agriculture sector is able to stave off this seemingly insurmountable challenge.
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, fondly known as MS Swaminathan, who passed away in Chennai on Thursday, was the driving force behind India's Green Revolution.
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