-Livemint.com * At a time when rural incomes are sliding, the only existing safety net for the farmer is failing * High costs of reinsurance due to erratic weather, a spike in claims, political interference in crop loss estimation are reasons that forced some insurers to leave the business NEW DELHI: Santosh Kumar’s first brush with insurance left a bitter aftertaste. A farmer’s son, 26-year-old Kumar from Bihar’s Araria district felt betrayed when...
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Air pollution: MPs urge govts not to blame Farmers alone
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The ruling and treasury benches in Lok Sabha came in one voice against portraying small and medium Farmers as villains behind the air pollution in Delhi. They urged the governments to look at the main pollutants such as industries, vehicles and dust and stop putting the entire blame on Farmers. Various suggestions The members were participating in a discussion on pollution and climate change here on Tuesday....
More »Fasal Bima, a story of dashed hopes -Radheshyam Jadhav
-The Hindu Business Line Farmers, reeling under crop losses, feel the Centre’s crop insurance scheme is merely helping insurance firms make profits. Radheshyam Jadhav reports After completing his graduation, Ramkisan Nirmal took up a challenge. Unlike other youths who prefer to migrate to nearby cities in search of jobs, Ramkisan dreamed of becoming a farmer and prove that with modern technology and efforts, agriculture could become a profitable venture. In his drought-prone village...
More »In 5 months, 40,000 Kerala Farmers seek loan waiver -Shaju Philip
-The Indian Express In Idukki and Wayanad districts, where the situation is more severe, the loans availed up to August 31, 2018, are being considered by the commission for debt relief and in other districts it is March 31, 2014. Thiruvananthapuram: Around 40,000 marginal Farmers in Kerala have approached the State Agricultural Debt Relief Commission in the last five months, seeking a waiver of loans they have taken from cooperative banks,...
More »Where are the Happy Seeders that Punjab's Farmers were promised? -Rajalakshmi Nirmal
-The Hindu Business Line Fewer straw-management machines were given out than had been sanctioned In Punjab most Farmers have their homes right in the middle of their farms. When they clear their field in October to prepare for sowing wheat, they burn the rice stalks left in the field and their homes remain engulfed by smog for weeks. So, if there is an alternative to crop burning, Farmers will only be...
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