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Cash crunch rains misery on farmers after below-par monsoon -Nidheesh MK, Dharani Thangavelu and Sharan Poovanna

-Livemint.com The impact of cash crunch on farmers is likely to have a cascading effect on the broader economy in southern India Bengaluru/ Chennai: P.V. Rajappan, a rice farmer in Kerala’s drought-hit Palakkad district, had been planning to drill a borewell to irrigate his next crop. He thought he would be able to do it this year. Rajappan delivered his entire harvest—10,210kg of paddy—to the state-run Civil Supplies Corporation, popularly known as...

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Oil mills in Modi backyard idle minus cash -Basant Rawat

-The Telegraph Ahmedabad: Samir Shah never had such spare time in his life as an oil mill owner. This is, after all, the peak season when mills buy oil seeds that are available after the harvesting of kharif crops. But the Saurashtra businessman has been sitting idle the past fortnight. There's no cash to do business. The demonetisation drive has left entrepreneurs like him with a shrunken wallet. And farmers don't usually accept...

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Demonetisation: If rural Cooperative Banks sink, so will farmers -Ajay Vir Jakhar

-The Economic Times Farmers accustomed to decades of government policy failure are willing to bear the pain caused by the government’s decision to recall Rs 500 & 1000 bills, but engineering a systematic failure of the rural cooperative banking sector would be an unpardonable desecration. Earlier rural bank branches were given a step motherly treatment: Rural cooperative bank branches were not replenished with lower denomination currency, while the newer higher denomination notes...

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Prof. Abhijit Sen, economist and former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, interviewed by The Economic Times

-The Economic Times In a chat with ET Now, Abhijit Sen, Professor, JNU, says this is a whole sector in which there are very large cash demands for production at one or two points in time and this happens to be one. Edited excerpts * The government has hiked MSPs for rabi crop. How do you see the impact of higher MSPs for output and demand for rabi playing out? The increases are normal...

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Netas using co-op banks for backdated FDs, DDs -Partha Sinha

-The Times of India MUMBAI: A few Cooperative Banks, mostly in rural areas, have found a new way to bypass banking system norms put in place by the government to fight the black money menace. Since PM Narendra Modi launched the demonetisation drive on November 8, these Cooperative Banks, which are yet to be computerised and still use physical ledger books, are taking cash from customers and opening backdated fixed deposits...

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