-Newsclick.in The ruling party has won just 18% of municipal council wards and 12% of municipal panchayat wards. Contrary to the euphoria being exhibited by the mainstream media and BJP, results of the UP civic body elections are not a one sided victory of the ruling BJP. If anything, these results coming so close to the state Assembly elections held earlier this year, show the rapid disenchantment taking place with the BJP...
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A Comprehensive Guide From RBI on How 'Not' to Lend to Farmers -Bodapati Srujana
-Newsclick.in This might help understand why there is a huge gap between the amount of loans banks claim they have given to the farmers and the amount that is actually received by the farmers. If you ever find yourself with time on your hands, and don’t know what to do with it – here is something that you can do. Just go to the website of Reserve Bank of India, and search...
More »The MSP mirage hits Maharashtra's soya farmers -Rahul Wadke
-The Hindu Business Line Mumbai: Astride soyabean sacks, 33-year-old market intermediary Parmeshwar Suryavanshi is literally at the top of his game. Suryavanshi belongs to the set of middlemen, locally called Adityas, at the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC)-controlled marketyard at Latur in Maharashtra. Below MSP prices When he raises his voice to call out bids, he also raises prices of soyabean though not quite enough to reach the minimum support price (MSP) of ?3,050/quintal....
More »Why India continues to use lethal pesticides -Sonam Taneja
-Down to Earth Death of cotton farmers due to pesticide poisoning in the Vidarbha region raises vital questions about the government's attitude towards regulation of toxic pesticides One more evil has reared its ugly head in Maharashtra’s arid Vidarbha region, which has so far been infamous for farmer suicides. Some 35 farmers in the region have died of pesticide poisoning in last four months. Most of them were working in cotton and...
More »Vidarbha farmers in debt trap: Here is how to save them -Vivian Fernandes
-The Financial Express How can the cotton and soybean farmers of Vidarbha and Marathwada supplement their incomes so they can get out of the trap of debt and self-engineered death? That was the theme of Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s ninth edition, four-day agricultural exhibition at Nagpur, called Agrovision, to which I was invited. A promising beginning has been made. In October last year, the National Dairy Development Board commenced operations. It...
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