Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Notice (8): Undefined variable: urlPrefix [APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8]latest-news-updates/farmers-stare-at-another-loss-despite-good-rains-they-need-a-boost-from-govt-richard-mahapatra-4688790.html"/> LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers stare at another loss despite good rains. They need a boost from govt -Richard Mahapatra | Im4change.org
Resource centre on India's rural distress
 
 

Farmers stare at another loss despite good rains. They need a boost from govt -Richard Mahapatra

-Down to Earth

Indian farmers have accumulated huge debts due to crop damages and less remunerative price for produce

When the National Statistical Office released the advance estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the 2019-20 fiscal year, the optimism for farmers — with an above-normal monsoon — fizzled out. India’s GDP growth for the current financial year was pegged at 5 per cent, the lowest in 11 years.

In 2018-19, the GDP grew at 6.8 per cent.

Every sector of the economy has slowed down; but what worries the most is the continuous decline in the agriculture sector, which employs around 42 per cent of Indians.

This will be the second consecutive year the farm sector has not registered significant growth. In 2019-20, it was expected to grow at 2.8 per cent; in the last financial year, it was 2.9 per cent. It is stagnating, one can argue.

Please click here to read more.