Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies

Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies is a network of researchers and scholars working on rural and agrarian issues in India

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

Ashok Dalwai: The entire inflation management in India has focussed on keeping food prices low #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

Ashok Dalwai: The resistance from bureaucracy and elected representatives should be overcome to have true decentralized democracy #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

Ashok Dalwai: We need to have decentralized democracy #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

Ashok Dalwai: India needs nutritional security and not just food security #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

When we blame Punjab farmers for poor air quality in Delhi, we have come full circle.

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

Ashok Dalwai: Rural is not just agrarian now, its one-third agrarian, one-third industrial and one-third service sector #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

We have forgotten that the rural was not just agrarian. 400 years ago, we had an agro-industrial economy. Not just farmers, the rural had handlooms, traders, artisans: Richa Kumar #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

#ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

When we blame Punjab farmers for poor air quality in Delhi, we have come full circle.

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

Just because these were bred by mobile pastoralists, not settled farmers!

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

The white revolution put a cold chain system throughout Gujarat but not in Kutch where there were more animals than humans - Vacant Saberwal #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

Data is an invisible resource. After the inversion point, changes will happen very fast - Parminder, IT for change #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

At the #NRAS policy conference: खेती चौपट होने वाली धन्धा नहीं है, farming is not an enterprise that goes under easily - Bharat Bhushan Tyagi, farmer.

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

Companies get millions to get off the ground, NABARD gives Farmer Producer Orgs (FPOs) with 100s of members 10 lakhs (1 m) for 3 years: Shambhu Prasad, #NRAS

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

In villages with non farm employment options, income inequality is lower: DN Reddy, #NRAS

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

India has one of the lowest protein intakes in the world - Krishna Kumar, Bioversity International
#ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

#ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

Companies get millions to get off the ground, NABARD gives Farmer Producer Orgs (FPOs) with 100s of members 10 lakhs (1 m) for 3 years: Shambhu Prasad, #NRAS

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

#ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Sudha N सुधा సుధ @nsudha13]

In villages with non farm employment options, income inequality is lower: DN Reddy, #NRAS

[Network for Rural and Agrarian Studies @nrasconf]

Padamshree Bharat Bhushan Tyagi: "Growing only rice, wheat and sugarcane is not agriculture, its just a drama" #ReImagineAgRuPolicies

[Himakiran @anugula]

Want to experience ₹farming? Check this out this weekend.

#விவசாயம் பழக வேண்டுமா? இந்த வார இறுதியில் நடக்கும் இந்த நிகழ்வில் கலந்து கொள்ளுங்கள்.

https://t.co/mmiaDXKRz3

[Himakiran @anugula]

Want to experience farming? Check this out this weekend.

விவசாயம் பழக வேண்டுமா? இந்த வார இறுதியில் நடக்கும் இந்த நிகழ்வில் கலந்து கொள்ளுங்கள். https://t.co/vUOVpFivHa