-Livemint.com The most glaring implication of the proposed deficiency payments is that it makes the state give up its responsibility of intervening in markets During the past few months, there has been a highly contested debate on the merits, viability and feasibility of crop insurance in India given the large number of small farmers and the large amount of subsidy involved that is not being effectively used as the coverage of...
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Steady growth of women as farmland owners in a decade -Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
-Hindustan Times India witnessed an impressive surge in the number of women owning or managing agricultural land in 2001-11 with landholdings under them registering a faster growth in this period than the ones controlled by men, shows a World Bank-backed study that points to improved gender equity in land rights. Though the amount of farmland controlled by women in the country is still marginal at 10% of the total, the number of...
More »Land holdings of SC/ST farmers up 10% in five years
-PTI NEW DELHI: The number of farm holdings of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in India jumped 10.18 per cent to 29.10 million in 2010-11 compared with 26.41 million in 2005-06, the latest agri-census report said. SC and STs had more than 20 per cent of the country's overall 138.35 million agri-land holdings in 2010-11. Over 80 per cent of total land was held by men, it said. Please click here to read...
More »Farmer unions demand an income commission -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com With rural distress taking a turn for the worse due to weather woes and lower crop prices, farmer unions write to PM demanding constitution of commission New Delhi: With rural distress taking a turn for the worse due to weather woes and lower crop prices, leading farmer unions from across the country have written a joint letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding constitution of an income commission that could...
More »India walks to work: Census -Rukmini S
-The Hindu Over a fifth of non-agricultural workers in India commute to work on foot, followed by commutes by cycle, moped or motorcycle and bus, new data from the Census shows. Fewer than three per cent take cars or vans, and over half travel less than five kilometres. On Thursday, the office of the Registrar General of India released data on commutes for the 200 million working Indians who are neither...
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