The agriculture sector is still the largest employer in India. But owing to rapid urbanisation, more and more rural youths are looking to find work in urban centres. This phenomenon has led to a significant rural to urban migration in India.According to the 2011 Census, the figure of internal migrat...
The global oil market which was already suffering from a bleak price structure since the Gulf War has reached an all-time low ‘price for oil per barrel’ - at $40.32 per barrel - as on April 20, 2020. For the first time in history, the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark went to a negat...
The Ampersand Group delivers end-to-end solutions through knowledge coupled with state-of-the art technology in areas of education, skilling, and healthcare. Vinesh Menon, CEO - Education, Skilling & Consulting Services, Ampersand Group, spoke to BE’s Aritra Mitra. Q. Take us ...
Indian agriculture is in distress. Two news items recently appeared in national dailies. One relating to the plight of grape farmers of Nasik in selling their produce and another of the difficulty of farmers in Punjab and Haryana in engaging farm hands for post-harvesting work. These two insta...
The agricultural sector - the highest employer in India – is in deep financial crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic.The sector was already in distress and recorded a significantincrease in the number of farmer suicides in recent years. Now the lockdown has aggravated the situation. Nationwide, citi...
The agricultural sector is one of the worst sufferers of the lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Though the central and state governments in India acted quickly to aid the agricultural sector in this crisis period, several agricultural experts are of the opinion that more immediate corrective...
The sudden announcement of the nationwide lockdown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shaken the rural economy. The economically marginalised and those engaged in the unorganised sector have been the worst affected. In this article, a few matters concerning the rural economy and the agr...