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Farmers' group not impressed with Union Budget 2020-21

-Press released by All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) dated 1st February, 2020 Delhi, February 1st 2020: Budget fails to increase rural demand and purchasing power which would have boosted the economy - instead, the Budget only boosts the profits of big corporates and MNCs, said AIKSCC. When the crying need in India’s economy is to increase the demand and purchasing power in rural areas, and hence rural incomes, the...

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Examining the FM's plan to double Farmers' income in two years -Ashok Gulati

-The Indian Express The FM’s other ideas for agriculture, especially on Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), which she repeated this year, need to be tested before it becomes a national policy. In her Budget speech, Nirmala Sitharaman spelled out sixteen measures to reboot agriculture and re-affirmed the Modi government’s resolve to double Farmers’ incomes by 2022. Agriculture is categorized by her as “Aspirational India”. All these sixteen measures are broadly in the...

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Govt may trim budget allocation for PM-Kisan

-PTI New Delhi: The government may reduce allocation for the PM-Kisan scheme by 20 per cent to around ?60,000 crore in the upcoming budget due to implementation hurdles in some States, according to sources. The Centre had allocated Rs. 75,000 crore in the Budget Estimate (BE) for 2019-20 to implement the scheme, under which Rs. 6,000 is being provided to Farmers per year in three equal instalments. Please click  here to read more. ...

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Women Farmers demand recognition from govt at 2-day meet -Jitendra

-Down to Earth Governments in India define Farmers as those who own land, which is usually not the case with women Women Farmers from six states demanded a comprehensive agriculture policy that would recognise them and offer relief and compensation to the kin of male Farmers who had commit suicide, at a recent event in the national capital. Around 60 women Farmers from Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Punjab took...

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Agriculture as solution -Harish Damodaran

-The Indian Express Turnaround in farm prices is the only good news in today’s overall dismal economic environment. The Narendra Modi government’s first term (June 2014 to May 2019) was marked by benign consumer food price inflation. At a mere 3.3% year-on-year, it averaged below even the 4.3% for overall retail inflation. Politically, the ruling party benefited, given that there are far more consumers of milk in India than dairy Farmers. The...

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