-The Economic Times Indian Farmer's plight has changed little even under GST that aims to revolutionise all kinds of businesses. NEW DELHI: That the Farmer has historically had one of the most unrewarding and thankless jobs in India is fairly common knowledge. Data sets after data sets show how Indian Farmers have remained hopelessly caught between ineffective policy and equally ineffective implementation — through the Five-Year-Plans era, through successive governments, and through...

-Hindustan Times As per district agriculture department, around 15 Farmers of Sangrur have adopted organic farming over 50 acres land in the district with different crops such as wheat, paddy, sugarcane and vegetables. The sowing season of wheat has begun in the state Chandigarh: Amid serious threats to human health and environment due to the use of pesticides and fertilisers, some progressive Farmers of Sangrur have chosen to produce organic wheat on...

-PTI Those who have enrolled their names for the state government's crop insurance scheme would get 100 per cent coverage for their loss, Mamata Banerjee asserted. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, after conducting an aerial survey of cyclone Bulbul-hit areas in North 24 Parganas, said on Wednesday that the loss incurred by the state due to the natural calamity might go up to Rs 50,000 crore. Mamata Banerjee handed over a cheque...

-India Today Satellite data shows significant rise in cases of farm fires in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh compared to last year. Chief ministers of Haryana and Punjab have blamed each other for increasing air pollution in cities in North India and other areas by failing to control stubble burnings cases. But satellite data, gathered and analysed by India Today's data team, DIU, shows that Punjab's Farmers have burned 13 per cent less...

-The Indian Express The data shows that Maharashtra accounted for almost 40 per cent of all Farmer suicides in the country in 2016. Karnataka (1,212) was second on the list but still recorded 50 per cent less Farmers’ suicides than Maharashtra. After withholding data on incidents of lynchings, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has released figures on Farmers’ suicides but with a key element from the previous edition missing this...