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THE NARENDRA MODI government lifted a ban on exports of broken rice, in place since September 2022. It's high time that it also scraps the 20 per cent duty on onion exports and stockholding lim limits on wheat. The reason is the harvesting of both crops is underway. According to the agriculture ministry, farmers have sown 324.9 lakh hectares (lh) under wheat and 10.3 lh under onion in the current rabi season, as against 318.3 lh and 8.6 lh last year. Ground reports suggest bumper production. In onions, it is evidenced by wholesale prices in Maharashtra's Lasalgaon market falling below Rs 1,500 per quintal, from Rs 2,300-plus at the month's start. As for wheat, the ministry has itself estimated a record output of 115.4 million tonnes (mt). The veracity of that will be known in the coming days; a lot hinges on no sudden temperature spikes detrimental to yields during the terminal grain-filling stage.
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THERE ARE POTENTIAL minor and major storms brewing around federalism in India. The question of delimitation and the balance of representation between the states of North and South India requires political finesse. Kashmir still awaits the restoration of full statehood. Tamil Nadu and the Centre are again sparring on the politics of language and education. Tamil Nadu is accusing the Centre of withholding Samagra Shiksha funds and covertly strategising to impose Hindi. The Centre, in turn, is accusing Tamil Nadu of playing politics with the National Education Policy and falsely raising the bogey of Hindi imposition. National parties are important since they knit different regions together. But the national parties can also supersede the demands of federalism. A chief minister is not just a constitutional functionary, the head of government of a state. A chief minister is also part of a party hierarchy that may supersede their function as chief minister. This is even more true in a system where party structures are more centralised. The states are already inserted into the political logic of the party; the chief minister is answerable to the party hierarchy as much as to the state.
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DATA FROM ONE of the instruments on Chandrayaan-3 has indicated that the presence of water on the Moon could be more widespread than known so far. A research team at the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, which analysed the data from the ChaSTE instrument onboard Vikram lander, has come to the conclusion that there were strong possibilities of water-ice sheets being present in areas outside the polar regions as well. As of now, water-ice on the Moon is known to be concentrated in the polar regions. The latest finding is another significant breakthrough by the Indian space community, and builds on the knowledge created in this field by Chandrayaan-1. Two instruments on Chandrayaan-1, one of them from NASA, had confirmed the presence of water on the Moon, and found definitive evidence of water-ice in the polar regions. This time the entire effort has been given shape by India.
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IT HAS BEEN more than a month since the Accredited Social Health Activists (popularly known as ASHA workers) in Kerala started their long-drawn strike. Though it never got much-needed national attention - either from the media or from the political stake holders the issues they raised are of larger relevance from the perspective of both labour rights and women's rights. In all of the state-run schemes, care/community workers are always women. "Scheme workers" comprise a diverse set of workers, the largest section being Anganwadi workers and helpers, who have been there in the system for nearly five decades. The labour-intensive work is often trivialised as 'soft' and 'unskilled' work. The meagre 'honorarium' and precarious working conditions are justified based on these assumptions. The gendered notion that the women are quintessential 'caregivers' without any technical skills often legitimises such exploitation and undervaluation. Feminisation of these jobs is thus normalised by the system.
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PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi last week chaired the first full-body meeting of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) in more than 12 years. The National Board for Wildlife was created in 2003 following an amendment to The Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (WLPA). The Indian Board for Wildlife (IBWL), established in 1952, was restructured, making it a statutory body and giving it more teeth to implement The Wild Life (Protection) Act. It has 47 members with the Prime Minister as chairperson and the Union Environment Minister as vice chairperson. Members include the Chief of the Army Staff, secretaries of the Ministries of Information and Broadcasting, Defence, and Tribal Affairs, and the Department of Expenditure in the Ministry of Finance. The Director General of Forests, MPs, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, and five representatives of the non-government sector are also part of the board.
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AS INDIA and the US negotiate a trade deal, Washington has insisted that "everything", including agriculture, is on the table. India's farm sector "can't stay closed" and must "open up" for American produce, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said. In this context, it is relevant to look at the government support that American farmers receive. The US had only 1.82 million family farms in 2023, compared to India's 93.09 million "agricultural households" as per the National Statistical Office's Situation Assessment Survey report of 2019. Farmers in the US boast a median household income of $97,984, more than the corresponding value of $80,610 for all American households. The US, unlike India, does not provide subsidies on fertilisers, electricity, or water in order to underprice these inputs used by farmers. Nor does its government intervene much on the output side through physical procurement and stocking of produce. Instead, government support to agricultural producers in the US takes place mainly via direct payments. Two major programs of financial assistance are Price Loss Coverage (PLC) and Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC). These aim at protecting farmers against low prices or revenue shortfalls with respect to 22 crops from wheat, corn, barley, oats, rice, lentils and peas, to cotton, soyabean and other oilseeds.
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