-Newsclick.in Food grain availability for Indians has INCreased by just 3.3% sINCe 1961. On this 72nd Independence Day of our India, while there will be the usual speeches and festivities, spare a thought to this shocking bit of news: average availability of food grains for every Indian has INCreased by 3.3% sINCe 1961. Food grains INCludes wheat, rice, other cereals and pulses. Among these, per person availability of pulses has actually declined...

-PTI The financial INClusion drive has resulted in proliferation of bank accounts in rural areas with 88.1 per cent of households having savings accounts, said a survey by Nabard. INCidence of Indebtedness (IOI), which is a proportion of households having outstanding debt on the date of the survey, was 52.5 per cent and 42.8 per cent for agricultural and non-agricultural households, respectively. All India IOI taking rural households together stood at 47.4 per...

-Livemint.com The average annual INCome of agricultural households was Rs 107,172, the National Financial INClusion Survey 2016-17 shows New Delhi: Rural households have access to banking and have savings but investment levels and pension and insurance coverage remain very low, a financial INClusion survey conducted by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) showed. At the same time, levels of indebtedness were high and nearly equalled annual INComes, according to...

-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The INCome of agricultural households, which account for nearly half the rural households in the country, surged to Rs 1,07,172 in 2015-16 at a annual compound growth rate (CAGR) of 12 per cent sINCe 2012-13. According to a rural survey carried out by the National Bank for Agricultural & Rural Development (Nabard), while the average annual INCome levels of non-agricultural households in 2015-16 stood at Rs...

-Livemint.com The government is confident of doubling farmers’ INCome by 2022, says Modi New Delhi: Indian farmers are taking to new and scientific methods of cultivation by adopting organic and solar powered farming, while the government has formulated an agriculture export policy to prepare farmers for the international market, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Wednesday. “Despite apprehensions of many, we have set a goal to double farmer...