After Andhra Pradesh, damaged crops coupled with the fear of defaulting on loan repayment has come to haunt growers in Madhya Pradesh. In the first case of suicide by a farmer in the state in recent times, a 35-year-old agriculturist of Harrai village in Damoh district ended his life by consuming insecticide on Wednesday. Nandlal Yadav, the farmer, was depressed after the failure of two successive crops. In Andhra Pradesh,...
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Kiran announces sops for farmers
The state government on Thursday announced a package of input subsidy of Rs 6,000 per hectare, a compensation of Rs 5,000 for loss of livestock, discoloured yarn and damaged equipment of fishermen apart from rescheduling of all farm loans and interest waiver for farmers who suffered loss due to flooding in the past 15 months. Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy in his reply to the debate on the farmers'...
More »Naidu on hunger strike, demands relief for calamity-hit farmers
TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu today launched an indefinite hunger strike demanding that the state and the central governments immediately provide succour to hapless farmers and artisans who faced the brunt of nature's fury in the last one year. The former Andhra Pradesh chief minister expressed serious displeasure over the relief announced by Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and demanded higher compensation as the loss was enormous. Naidu, the Leader of the...
More »After Ten Month Bhupinder Singh Hooda Submits Agriculture Production Report
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday submitted the Working Group on Agriculture Production report to Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi. It is to mention that Indian Prime Minster on April 8, 2010 constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under the chairmanship of the Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the Chief Ministers of Punjab, Bihar and West Bengal as members to recommend strategies and action plan...
More »Two more farmers die of shock
Shock deaths of farmers continued on Wednesday as two more farmers succumbed to the pressure of lost crops and mounting debts. Nunna Prakasa Rao, who cultivated 10 acres of paddy and lost the entire crop in the unseasonal heavy rains, died of heart attack at Kovvili in Denduluru inWest Godavari. Rao was inconsolable ever since the loss and collapsed on Wednesday. He died even before medical aid could reach him....
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