-The Indian Express Food inflation isn’t a bad thing, at least for onion growers. Rajkot/ Bhavagar (Gujarat): AS THE winter sun turns red on the western horizon, Kishor Ranpariya and Haresh Saipariya discuss the overall crop situation and wholesale price trends. The former has just returned after selling 63.51 quintals of onion at the agricultural produce market committee (APMC) mandi in Rajkot, about 25 km from his home in Rataiya village in...
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Exclusion errors: Decoding the female face of agricultural crisis -Swasti Pachauri
-Down to Earth Without empowering women in farming by recognising them as Farmers and giving them land rights, agriculture can’t be sustained and so can’t the economy In Maharashtra’s 2019 Assembly elections, the Vidarbha constituencies presented interesting trends. The region is important politically not just for the stalwarts who contest from there, but also for the development issues it represents. More than three lakh Farmers have committed suicide in India between 1991 and...
More »Why sugarcane Farmers don't want Brazilian President as chief guest on Republic Day -Joe C Mathew
-Business Today Brazil, a major sugarcane producer, has been against India's existing scheme to support sugarcane Farmers claiming that it was beyond the permissible limits under the WTO regulations Prime minister Narendra Modi-led government's decision to invite Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro as the chief guest of India's Republic Day celebrations on January 26 has been criticised by All India Sugarcane Farmers' Federation (AISFF), an affiliate of CPIM's Farmer body All India...
More »After fertilisers, Centre wants food subsidy to directly benefit Farmers -Harikishan Sharma & Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express In Odisha, procurement of paddy during the ongoing 2019-20 Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) is, for the first time, being done from registered Farmers only after Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. FIRST IT was fertilisers, where the NDA government made disbursal of subsidy conditional upon actual sales to Farmers getting registered on PoS (Point of Sale) machines in retail outlets. That reform measure — to ensure that the benefit of minimum support...
More »The hollow relief of fewer Farmer suicides
-Livemint.com New government data show India saw fewer cases of Farmers taking their lives in 2018 than the year before. But this doesn’t mean rural distress is down. Much needs to be done It is tempting to relate the decline in the number of Farmer suicides in 2018, as reported by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), to an abatement in rural distress. Such a temptation should, however, be tempered. There have...
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