-The Hindu Land owners get money, those who till get nothing CHANDA (T) (ADILABAD DISRICT): Chanda (T), the village where the Rythu Bandhu programme was launched by Forest Minister Jogu Ramanna in Adilabad district on Thursday threw up a curious scenario as only those who could seemingly do without investment support receiving it and those who forcefully lay claim to it by virtue of being poor landless being ignored. Yes, almost all those...
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Rural income: looking beyond agriculture -Sanjay Kaul
-Livemint.com China’s example shows the benefits of the rural workforce shifting from the farm to the non-farm sector The government announced its ambitious dream of doubling farmers’ income by 2022-23 in 2015-16. Incomes would have to grow annually by 10.4% to double in seven years. The data on growth rates of farm income given by NITI Aayog in its policy paper on doubling farmers’ income shows that the real income of farmers has...
More »Telangana doles out agri credit assistance; farmers get Rs. 4,000/acre
-The Hindu Business Line CM demands NREGA cover for farm labour Hyderabad: About 58 lakh farmers in Telangana will get a financial assistance of ?4,000 each for every acre of land they own under a programme launched by the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao today The State government has allocated ?12,000 crore for the scheme in the Budget for 2018-19. The farmers will get ?4,000 each an acre in the kharif and in...
More »Maharashtra Govt Fails to Fulfil Promises, Farmer Organisations Call For 'Jail Bharo' Protest -Ronak Chhabra
-Newsclick.in Around two lakh farmers will court arrest on May 14, which is the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. Various farmer organisations, under the banner of Shetkari Sanghatana Sukanu Samiti, have called for a ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’ on May 14, across the state of Maharashtra. The court arrest, by over two lakh farmers, is slated to take place on the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj. They will be protesting against...
More »Karnataka: Tradition to the rescue -Deepthi Sanjiv
-Bangalore Mirror In Hassan, Kalyanis are being rejuvenated to get water for the parched district When she saw that her district, Hassan, was listed among the 16 permanent drought-prone districts of the state by the Central drought study committee, writer and social worker Rupa Hassan was dismayed. Rupa, who hails from Mysuru and settled in Hassan post-marriage, could not fathom how a green district that has Sakaleshpur of the Western Ghats as...
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