-The Hindu Business Line Launched in February after the BJP’s defeat in three states in the Hindi heartland, the Prime Minister’s ambitious scheme for Farmers may help the party in its fight against the SP-BSP gathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh. Ballia, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Phulpur: Last month, Raj Narayan Rajbhar, a resident of Saimalpur village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency, had Rs 2,000 credited to his bank account under the Pradhan...
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Potato wars
-The Hindu Business Line PepsiCo’s case against Gujarat’s potato growers was a patently weak one Right at the outset, it was apparent that PepsiCo never had a strong legal case against Farmers growing its registered potato variety without entering into a contract. After pressure from Farmers’ groups, PepsiCo has decided to withdraw cases against about 10 Farmers in Gujarat and Rajasthan who were allegedly cultivating its FC-5 variety — registered by it...
More »How a rural distress helpline in Telangana is preventing farmer suicides -Priyanka Richi
-TheNewsMinute.com Set up in 2017, Kisan Mitra provides counselling to distressed Farmers and acts as a bridge between them and the government. “It was during the 2018 floods that we got a call from a farmer in Adilabad. The caller didn’t need any help for himself but said that his neighbour has been sitting in a corner of his field since morning with a bottle of pesticide in his hand. The...
More »Polling over, Maharashtra govt scraps subsidy for milk producers
-The Tribune Mumbai: Within days of polling for the Lok Sabha elections coming to an end in Maharashtra, the state government has quietly let a subsidy scheme for dairy Farmers lapse. Under a scheme announced in July last year following protests by dairy Farmers across the state, the Maharashtra Government announced a subsidy of Rs 5 per litre. Under a plan brokered by the central government, dairies would pay the Farmers a...
More »PepsiCo withdraws cases against two big Farmers -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu It had sued them for Rs. 20 lakh PepsiCo has applied to withdraw its cases against two brothers who are major potato Farmers and traders in the Banaskantha district of Gujarat. This is the first concrete move taken by the company to back down from its cases against at least nine potato Farmers who grew its protected variety used to make Lays chips. PepsiCo’s lawyer filed the application in a Deesa court...
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