-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre has finally scrapped its controversial notification on a ban on sale of animals for slaughter in livestock markets and come out with new draft rules doing away with the clause on “restrictions on sale of cattle”. This means cattle, INCluding cows, can be sold in animal markets, even for slaughter wherever it is legal. Last year’s notification had not prohibited slaughter as such, but...
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Doubling of farmers' INCome: Time to swing into action - Here is why -T Nanda Kumar
-The Financial Express INCreasing farm productivity alone will not help raise farmers’ INCome and may even be detrimental. the need is to diversify farmers’ sources of INCome. One of the most important statements made in recent times by the government was the declaration of its intention to double farmers’ INCome by 2022. The statement of prime minister Narendra Modi in Bareilly on February 28, 2016, must have made the farmers leap with...
More »Nutrition scheme launched for pregnant women, infants -Rajulapudi Srinivas
-The Hindu VIJAYAWADA: Officials of Krishna district have launched ‘Poushtikaharam-Memu Saitam’ (PMS) scheme for pregnant and lactating women and children enrolled in the Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) to bring down infant mortality during deliveries. The aim of the PMS is to INCrease haemoglobin levels among pregnant and lactating women and decrease malnourishment in children. As part of it, pearl millet (sajja) laddus will be distributed for women and sesame (nuvvula) laddus for children below...
More »Food for thought: do Attappady community kitchens serve the needy? -KA Shaji
-The Hindu Amid criticism from SC/ST panel, experts say project must continue Now in her late twenties, Veeramma Selvan of Thekkekadampara tribal hamlet in Sholayur gram panchayat of Attappady has reasons to believe that her gods have stopped smiling. It was in January last year that she lost her five-month-old, underweight son Balu — her fourth child — allegedly due to milk aspiration. (a medical condition in which the mother's milk goes...
More »Death in the farmlands: Suicides in agriculture sector decline 32% in 2016
-Business Standard Suicides by farm labourers INCreased 9% to 5,019 in 2016 (14 every day) from 4,595 in 2015 (13 every day) As many as 6,351 farmers/cultivators committed suicide in 2016 across India, or 17 every day, according to the latest home ministry data. Suicides declined 21 per cent from 8,007, or 22 every day, in 2015, data show. Suicides in the farming sector declined 10 per cent — from 12,602 in 2015...
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