The West Bengal government on Monday decided to withdraw the Land Reforms Amendment Bill 2006, making it evident that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had capitulated to his firebrand comrade and Land Minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah.
In the face of persistent rural poverty, an incomplete agrarian transition, the predominance of small and marginal farms and a growing feminisation of agriculture, this paper argues for a new institutional approach to poverty reduction, agricultural revival and social empowerment.
BANGALORE: Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda on Thursday threatened a Statewide agitation if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka continued to blatantly acquire agricultural land for industrial purposes in violation of the Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Rules 1996.
In its resolution 10/12, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory Committee to undertake a study on discrimination in the context of the right to food, including identification of good practices of anti-discriminatory policies and strategies, and
A close look at the agricultural scenario in the hill state of Sikkim reveals that foodgrain production has been growing more slowly than population. The state has failed to augment agrarian reforms and public investment in agriculture has been on the decline.
The state land and land reforms minister, Mr Abdur Rezzak Mollah has asked his department to put all land acquisition work on hold due to lack of manpower.
Despite the intervention of the chief minister, the department is yet to get replacements after several officials retired and their posts fell vacant.
FOOD prices are sky-high and the governments at the Centre and the states can do little more than blame one another. The present rise in food prices cannot be tackled through conventional means, because food prices are going up because of higher demand from all sections of society.
