-The Times of India BENGALURU: Notwithstanding the consecutive years of drought over the past three years, Karnataka farmers earned 38% in 2015-16 from sale of agri-commodities through the e-trading interface Unified Market Platform (UMP), according to a Niti Aayog report. The income is expected to double in 2016-17 with many more markets coming under UMP, said a senior agriculture marketing official. UMP, an initiative of the Rashtriya e-Market Services Ltd (ReMS), is...
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Small farms are eating away farmers' profits and productivity -Harini Calamur
-DNA Most of Europe avoided the fate of India, because of a very strict feudal law — that of following primogeniture, a system of inheritance by the firstborn (usually the first born son). Karnataka — preceded by UP, Punjab and Maharashtra — is the fourth state to have waived off loans taken by farmers. However, this is not going to be the end of the matter. You are likely to...
More »Why didn't Madhya Pradesh farmers gain from farm growth? -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil
-Livemint.com Madhya Pradesh farmers are unhappy that outsiders are misled by claims made by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Indore, Harda, Mandsaur (MP): Ghanshyam Singh Pipawat, 45, a farmer from the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh, has a question for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “When Modi declared notebandi, he said this would be the last time people will have to stand in line. Then why am I standing in a 2-km-long line to...
More »Mandsaur agrarian unrest: The worth of a crore -Milind Ghatwai & Mohammad Hamza Khan
-The Indian Express Six people died during the farmer protests in Mandsaur, MP, after which the government announced Rs 1 crore to each of the families. The Indian Express visits their homes to hear their stories — from a new-born who will never see her father to an aunt who asks: “Will we get the money? When?” How money reached them When five protesters died on June 6 in alleged police firing...
More »'Let them sell pakodas': Maharashtra farmers do not benefit from growing even high-priced tur now -Manas Roshan
-Scroll.in The minimum support price of Rs 5,050 per quintal barely covers the input cost, yet the going market rate is just about Rs. 4,500. Sudhakar Patil, 65, is a farmer in Bhayar Chincholi village in Maharashtra’s Osmanabad district. He cultivates a mix of tur, urad and moong on his 11-acre farm in the kharif season and chana and wheat in winter. In a good year, when there’s water in the...
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