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Socio-Economic Surveys of Three Villages in Tripura: A Study of Agrarian Relations, a book prepared by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies and published by Tulika Books in 2019, has recently been reviewed by the noted economist C. T. Kurien in Frontline magazine.
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) is happy to announce a fieldwork grant for a new comparative study on rice cultivation in the kole cultivation areas of Kerala and rice cultivation in An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam.
Professor John Harriss of Simon Fraser University has reviewed How Do Small Farmers Fare? Evidence from Village Studies in India, a publication of the Foundation for Agrarian Studies, in the recent issue of Journal of Agrarian Change.
The Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) congratulates R. Ramakumar, Professor, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, for being awarded the Bernstein & Byres Prize in Agrarian Change for 2017, for his article ‘Jats, Khaps and Riots: Communal Politics and the Bharatiya Kisan Union in Northern India’.
I am indeed honoured to have this opportunity to make an intervention on the occasion of the public lecture by Dr M. S. Swaminathan. I am an activist of the All India Kisan Sabha, the oldest and the largest peasant organization in the country. The All India Kisan Sabha, since its inception in 1936 onwards, has consistently argued in favour of using advancements in science and technology to increase agricultural production and productivity.
The Union Government announced minimum support prices (MSP) for 17 agricultural commodities (14 kharif crops) on July 4, 2018. The announcement came in the backdrop of the assurance provided by the Prime Minister to sugarcane farmers that the Government is going to provide MSP for kharif crops at one and half times of production cost. However, a closer look at the MSP reveals that for no crop was MSP more than 50 per cent of production cost.
The Book titled "How do Small Farmers Fare? Evidence from Village Studies" finds a place in the list of annotations that appear in the December 2017 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (Vol. 55, No. 4).
As part of the project titled “Women’s Work in Agriculture and Rural Production in India”, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies conducted a week-long pilot time-use survey of women in Siresandra village of Kolar district from May 11 to 19, 2017. Fourteen women from different socio-economic backgrounds were chosen for the study.
The Kerala State Planning Board appointed a Committee on November 23, 2016 to study the impact of demonetisation and related measures of the Government of India on the economy of the State of Kerala. The Committee submitted an interim report on December 20, 2016.
The Human Development Index for Kerala was 0.911, a high value and similar to the performance of many advanced countries. These achievements are undeniably due to effective public action by the State.