-The Hindu Business Line Record double-digit growth in FY17 Chennai: Indian tractor industry continues to witness strong momentum for higherhorsepower Tractors due to multiple benefits in farm application. In the backdrop of demand recovery that culminated in a year of strong sales for the tractor industry, Tractors of 40 HP and more recorded double digit growth in 2016-17. The domestic tractor market, which is the largest in the world by volumes, grew 18 per...
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Stop Banks From Humiliating Farmers, Supreme Court Tells Tamil Nadu -A Vaidyanathan and Shylaja Varma
-NDTV The Supreme Court asked the Tamil Nadu government to install a process by which farmers can report misbehavior by bank officials while trying to make them pay up. New Delhi: The government's job is to prevent farmers from committing suicide and not distribute compensation after they have died, the Supreme Court told Tamil Nadu in strong words today, asking it to ensure that no coercive action is taken against...
More »The unsuitable boy of India's cattle economy -Abhishek Rajan
-VillageSquare.in The problem of male cattle in India, the world’s largest milk-producing country, remains in limbo even as farmers grapple with latest government regulations that severely restrict cattle trade and culling Alpesh Patel, a small farmer in Mogari village of Anand district in Gujarat, owns three crossbreed female cattle and earns supplemental income by selling milk to the nearest dairy co-operative. He strives to keep his herd efficient for milk production by...
More »GST Council cuts tax rate on fertiliser to 5%
-PTI New Delhi: Just a couple of hours before the Goods and Services Tax (GST) roll out, the all-powerful GST Council tonight reduced the tax rate on fertiliser to 5 per cent from previously decided 12 per cent. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who heads the GST Council comprising representatives of states, said the decision to reduce the tax rate on fertiliser was taken because of apprehensions that price of the crop nutrient...
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...
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