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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A ballooning fertilizer subsidy bill, due to a rise in global prices, is pushing the government to promote zero budget natural farming, which is both unsustainable and unscientific.
“We have to take our agriculture out of the lab of chemistry and connect it to the lab of nature,” said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16 December 2021 at the National Conclave on Natural Farming. He asked everyone to “take a pledge to make Maa Bharati’s land free from chemical fertilizers and pesticides”. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman took the cue and announced a new scheme on chemical-free natural farming in her budget speech for 2022-23.
But here’s the problem: natural farming has zero sanction among agricultural scientists. In 2019, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)—the science academy for …
The newly announced levy on UPI payments undermines the very foundation of using digital payments for stock market investing. Brokers are in a tizzy.
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
