New Delhi: In farm sector, the growth in nominal terms for the quarter October-December 2018, stands at an all time low of 2.04 per cent for a quarter, according to the Central Statistics Office’s 2011-12 base year series. If the growth output is considered in real terms, the quarter saw[Read More…]
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Midnight drama before Maharashtra farmers suspend ‘long march’
Nashik: Dramatic developments, including an unprecedented post-midnight ‘peasant rally’ addressed by Maharashtra Ministers, led to a mammoth “long march” of farmers from Nashik to Mumbai being called off early on Friday. “Yes… The government has agreed to all our 15 demands and has promised their implementation in a time-bound manner,[Read More…]
Once exploiters, truck drivers change the lives of Jharkhand’s tomato growers
By Nityanand Shukla Latehar (Jharkhand): Time was when truck drivers from the north, given the abundant production of tomatoes in Jharkhand, would purchase these at rock-bottom prices and sell them for a huge profit back home. It led to a situation where farmers would in disgust throw tomatoes on the[Read More…]
Alternative discourse and the Left: Changing dimensions of politics
The waves of farmer’s agitations across the country are beyond anything that has been seen since ’80s. India being an agrarian society with around 70% of its people depending directly or indirectly upon agriculture has started showing a clear indication of discontent as neoliberal policy reforms made their situation extremely[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh Polls: How crashing prices of Garlic may impact the poll outcome?
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, farmers of Malwa region, who are struggling through various issues, have become a center of debate ahead of the electoral battle of the state. Farmers’ distress, debt relief and uncertainty over Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana are some of the issues of agrarian community in Madhya[Read More…]
Big B to pay off loans of over 850 UP farmers
Mumbai: Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan says over 850 farmers from Uttar Pradesh have been identified, and their loans to the tune of Rs 5.5 crore will be taken care of. “A list of over 850 farmers from Uttar Pradesh have been identified and their loans amounting to over 5.5 crore[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh: Government provides relief to farmers
Ahead of assembly election, Chhattisgarh state government led by chief minister Raman Singh has announced that it will provide water for 2018-19 rabi crop. “The state government has decided to provide water for the Rabi crops in the ensuing season 2018-19,” state government spokesperson said on Thursday in Raipur. Earlier, the government[Read More…]
Maharashtra: Farmers use smart phone to boost cotton yields
In order to help farmers derive maximum benefits and returns from the cotton fields, the “Cotton Doctor” app, an Android and web-based Decision Support System (DSS), has been introduced by World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) in collaboration with Swedish multinational IKEA which alerts cotton farmers in Maharashtra about weather[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Congress MLA Umang Singhar puts forward Tribal and farmer’s demand
The recent state-level conference held in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh by Congress raised many concerns in context with the welfare of the tribal community and farmers. Congress MLA from Gandhwani Umang Singhar said that the Central government had earlier announced to boost Minimum Support Price (MSP) however; the farmers seek aid in[Read More…]
Bihar drought crisis: Thousands of frogs sacrificed to please rain Gods
Following the 42 percent rain deficit in this monsoon season, farmers and villagers of Bihar sacrificed thousands of frogs to please the rain Gods. The battle against severe shortage of rain has taken another superstitious turn in the state as farmers either arranged frog marriages or sacrificed frogs to rain[Read More…]
Modi reiterates his 2014 manifesto, promises to double farmer’ income by 2022
Mirzapur: Reiterating his 2014 manifesto, Narendra Modi promised to double the income of farmers and rich-poor divide by 2022 on his second day tour of Uttar Pradesh. “Our government visualises a new India that takes full care of the sick, the poor, the children, the youth and the farmers,” he said[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Amid protest, women farmers play football with Shivraj’s photo on it
Amid the spate of ongoing FIFA world cup, few farmers of the silk industry, who had been on strike for not getting wages, were seen playing football with the photos of MP’s CM Shivraj Singh stuck around the ball. On arrival of such reports to the police, the football game[Read More…]
Karnataka maiden budget highlights: Hike in petrol price, major focus on loan waiver
Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy announced a number of populist schemes including huge farm loan waivers to the tune of Rs 2 lakh while presenting his maiden budget on Thursday July 5, in Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru. The budget proposes formation of a farmer’s consultation committee comprising of progressive farmers. CM Kumaraswamy[Read More…]
Farmers, families end lives – Is this ‘Achhe Din’? Shiv Sena asks Modi
Mumbai: Referring to suicides in Maharashtra by farmers and others, the Shiv Sena on Monday pointedly asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Is this your promised ‘Achhe Din’? Blaming the BJP-led governments at the centre and in Maharashtra, the Sena said that all these people took the extreme step of ending[Read More…]
Odisha CM urges Modi to frame national policy on loan waiver for farmers
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has proposed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that a national policy on loan waivers be formulated in order to relieve the farmers from the agrarian distress. In order to relieve the farmers from the agrarian distress, we should have a National Policy on Loan[Read More…]
Gujarat farmers protest land acquisition for bullet train
Surat: Strong protests have started emerging in Gujarat against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream project of a bullet train between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, with farmers in Surat district taking to the streets opposing acquisition of land for the purpose. More than 200 farmers from 15 villages drove down to the[Read More…]
Electoral tactics alone cannot defeat BJP: CPI-M
New Delhi: It will be wrong to underestimate the pan-India strength of the BJP and to think that electoral tactics alone will be enough to defeat it, the CPI-M has said. The key link at this juncture is to gather the growing discontent against the BJP rule, especially due to[Read More…]
Cost plus 50 per cent as MSP to farmers another ‘jumla’: Congress
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday termed the Narendra Modi government’s claim of ensuring MSP at “50 per cent more than actual cost of production” to farmers another “jumla” and accused Finance Minister Arun Jaitley “blatantly” lying in his budget speech. “In the run-up to 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Prime[Read More…]
Forget PR dazzle, tell us when will MSP increase: Rahul to Modi
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to specify exactly when he was going to fulfil his promise of fixing the minimum support price for crops at 1.5 times the production cost. In a tweet after Modi at an event here said confusion was being[Read More…]
Farmer’s funeral pyre will destroy you, Shiv Sena warns BJP
Mumbai: Taking a grim view of the suicide by an octogenarian peasant demanding fair compensation for his acquired lands, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday warned its ruling ally BJP that Dharma Patil’s funeral pyre will destroy the BJP government. Condemning the incident which happened in the state government Mantralaya where[Read More…]
Farmers ‘hanged’ to draw people’s attention to suicides in NCR
With an aim to draw the attention of thousands of Delhiites towards farmers’ suicides, Jai Kisan Andolan of Swaraj India on Thursday displayed farmers’ dummies hanging from various flyovers in Delhi and Noida. With a message, “Three lakh farmers committed suicide in India, Let’s stop this now”, Jai Kisan Andolan[Read More…]
SC seeks Centre’s response on plea for banning 93 pesticides
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre’s response on a plea that sought a ban on 93 pesticides, which are banned in different countries but are used by Indian agriculturists and thus exposes them to serious diseases. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, and Justice[Read More…]
Ask traders about ease of doing business in India: Gandhi to Jaitley
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday mocked at the BJP government over India’s improved global ranking in ease of doing business, asking Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to see how small traders were suffering due to the double blow of demonetisation and hasty implementation of GST. Gandhi, in a fiery[Read More…]
Odisha government announce drought package for farmers
The Odisha government on Wednesday announced a drought package for the Kharif season for farmers. Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik said agriculture input subsidy will be provided to small and marginal farmers who have sustained crop loss of 33 per cent and above. He added that Rs 6,800 per hectare of[Read More…]
Gujarat polls: Rahul Gandhi to meet farmers, entrepreneurs today
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will interact with dairy farmers, businessman, and entrepreneurs of Gujarat on the second day of his three-day state visit to Gujarat. Gandhi will start his day at 10:15 am with a meeting with workers and supporters at Rampur Patia in Jamnagar district. He will then hold[Read More…]