-TheWire.in The proposed Market Assurance Scheme should not leave states to fend for themselves when it comes to price support for farmers, especially as the agrarian crisis is one that is caused mainly by central policies. The Budget season, that too in the last full year before the 2019 general elections, brings the debate back to agriculture in the country. Apart from several farmers’ struggles across the country, including the unprecedented unified...
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ISMA raises sugar output estimate by 4% to 26 mn tonnes due to good monsoon -Dilip Kumar Jha
-Business Standard Mills' body alarmed at likely fall in price; ask govt to negotiate for export to neighbouring countries Mumbai: With a sharp increase in output in the first three months of the current cane crushing season, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (Isma) has raised the country's production forecast by four per cent or one million tonnes to 26.1 mt for 2017-18 (October-September). It has also begun lobbying with the government on early...
More »Bhavantar scheme to figure in central budget but FM should visit MP first: Yogendra Yadav -Ranjan
-Hindustan Times Swaraj India national president Yogendra Yadav says the central government is considering imposing Bhavantar scheme meant for farmers on the entire country and this is about to figure in the Central budget Bhopal: Swaraj India national president Yogendra Yadav said here on Thursday the central government was considering imposing Bhavantar scheme meant for farmers on the entire country and this was about to figure in the Central budget during...
More »Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana: A scheme with a difference -Milind Ghatwai
-The Indian Express The MP government’s scheme paying farmers the difference between MSP and marketing prices has had a mixed impact on the ground. Dewas (Madhya Pradesh): “Baniya deta mandi mein, jo bachta hai woh sarkar deti hai” (what the trader gives in the market, the government gives the balance). That’s Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY) for Arjun Singh Sendhav. The 29-year-old five-bigha (2.9 acres) farmer from Chaubara Jagir village is a beneficiary of...
More »Too many potatoes on Uttar Pradesh's plate -Maulshree Seth
-The Indian Express Behind dumping of potatoes, including outside Assembly, a bumper crop and insufficient storage space. Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh, the largest potato producing state with about 35% of the country’s total output, has had a bumper crop in 2016-17 — over 155 lakh tonnes — with the result that potatoes are rotting along roadsides and outside cold storage units. What threw the spotlight on the surplus — apparently more than the government...
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