India stands at a turning point in its agricultural journey. Its fertilizer subsidy programme, a cornerstone of its food-security strategy, now threatens the sustainability it aims to ensure 1. The ...

Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute, Belfast, UK. Evidently, the subsidies have achieved their aim of increasing fertilizer use. Economic theory suggests that shifting payments to farmers would not lead ...

NEW DELHI, July 17 (Reuters) - India is likely to spend 2.25 trillion rupees ($11.97 billion) on food subsidies this financial year, four government sources said, up around 11% from the interim budget ...

To become a manufacturing powerhouse, India requires a systemic overhaul. While a few thousand crore rupees worth of targeted subsidies may speak of the government’s ambition to raise the share of ...