-The Hindu New Delhi: Farmers in eight States including UP, Gujarat and Rajasthan, will be able to sell 25 commodities online in 21 wholesale mandis from Thursday – the new platform hopefully fetching them better prices for their produce. “We have received proposals from 12 States for integration of 365 wholesale mandis. Of these, 21 mandis from eight States have been selected for the pilot launch,” Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 3297
Farmer Suicides Averaged 9 a Day in Parched Maharashtra
-IANS A staggering 3,228 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra in 2015, the highest since 2001, according to data tabled in the Rajya Sabha on March 4, 2016 – that is almost nine farmers every day. The number of suicides almost equal the number of people killed (3,477) by the Taliban in 2014, IndiaSpend had reported earlier. Vidarbha and Marathwada, with 5.7 million farmers, accounted for 83 percent of all farmer suicides in Maharashtra...
More »In drought-hit Marathwada, farmers are stuck with thirsty cattle – and official apathy -Mridula Chari
-Scroll.in Neither the Maharashtra government that imposed a ban on cattle slaughter nor private institutions seem to have sustainable solutions. It has been four years since many parts of Marathwada in central Maharashtra have had adequate rain. The drought has already resulted in widespread distress and even deaths. In Latur district, a young boy racing to get water from a tanker was crushed under its wheels. Two women died because of the...
More »Bundelkhand famine: 18 lakh people migrated to Delhi alone in 1 year -Rupashree Nanda
-CNN-IBN Unable to bear the famine at least 18 lakh people have migrated out of Bundelkhand to Delhi alone during the past one year, sale of train tickets from the region suggest. Figures available from ten major railway stations in drought-hit Bundelkhand showed, that between April 2015 and March 2016, nearly 18 lakh people -- which is about 10% of the population -- bought tickets for unreserved compartments in trains going to...
More »Indian agriculture yet to catch up with neighbours on public spending, indicates IFPRI report
Amidst the prevailing gloominess over agrarian crisis, a recently released report says that the growth rate of agricultural output in both India and China were the same during 2008-2013. The agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) of both these countries on an average grew at 3.3 percent per annum during that period. The latest available data from the 2016 Global Food Policy Report, however, indicates that the neighbouring countries of Sri Lanka...
More »
