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559 Farmer suicides in Maharashtra in four months

-The Hindu   Three Farmers committed suicide every day from February to May this year Mumbai: Three Farmers committed suicide every day from February to May this year, the Maharashtra Legislative Council was informed on Tuesday. State Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Patangrao Kadam informed the council that 559 Farmers had ended their lives in these four months. "Out of the total suicides, 85 were due to natural calamities such as hailstorms," Mr. Kadam said. The...

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The Spectre of Food Crisis in India

-The Navhind Times   THAT climate will remain in a state of flux is a given. The fallout of global warming will be periodic extreme heat and drought, as was experienced by the United States and some other food-exporting countries in 2012, sending food prices close to record levels. At the same time, many countries, including China and India will experience heavy rains and floods from time to time, damaging food production. Even...

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Harmful waivers

-The Hindu Business Line   Loan write-offs will become redundant if we have a robust crop insurance system The Chief Minister of residual Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu may have bought time in implementing his lavish pre-poll promise of waiving ₹54,000 crore worth of farm loans. The decision to appoint an expert committee to recommend guidelines on the waiver may well be a ploy to defer - even soften - the impact of...

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Maharashtra's insurance scheme for orchard owners draws angry protests-Aparna Pallavi

-Down to Earth   Too high a premium for too little cover Maharashtra government appears to have learnt no lesson at all from the hailstorms that lashed the entire state in March this year, and yet again lashed several districts in May, if its new decision to include three orchard crops - orange, sweet lime and guava - in its Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) on an experimental basis during the current...

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Modi faces first challenge: India heading for a drought year -Akash Vashishtha

-Mail Today   New Delhi: And this dread scenario could well unfold, with the Met prediction of a below-normal monsoon on Monday being underlined by Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh who admitted that the forecast is of below-average rainfall. Precipitation in the June-September period is expected to be between 90 and 96 per cent of the long-term average, added the minister. What he didn't say was that the India Meteorological Department...

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