-The Economic Times The agriculture sector and farmers are passing through a difficult phase. The sector suffered a blow from back-to-back droughts during 2014-15 and 2015-16 followed by low and depressed farm level prices during 2016-17 and kharif 2017, mainly due to global price trends. This has intensified the demand for ensuring MSP (minimum support price) and raising MSP. The forthcoming budget needs to take a call to launch effective measures to...
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No one loves the farmer -Ashok Gulati & Siraj Hussain
-The Indian Express They are the largest constituency in UP. Yet, all parties have overlooked their issues Next month, Uttar Pradesh (UP) will have a new popular government, hopefully with a clear mandate. If UP was a country, with a population reportedly of more than 214 million in 2015 (as per UN population projections), it would have been the fifth most populous country in the world after China, India, US and Indonesia....
More »In this Varanasi village, few line up for the new toilets -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu Business Line Villagers of Nageypur, which was adopted by the PM, allege corruption in the cleanliness drive The people of Nageypur, the model village in Varanasi adopted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are agitated. The village mainly has two problems—open defecation and clogging of water that flows from kitchens and toilets. Out of its 525 families, less than 200 in this village have pucca toilets. Understanding this, the Prime Minister’s Office offered...
More »Pulse of the matter: Manufacturing a dal crisis, short-changing both farmer and consumer -Yogesh Pawar
-DNA Wondering about the plight of the rural population facing successive droughts which has to buy pulses, South Asia Network for Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) laments how no benefit of the price hike is reaching actual pulse farmers. While most link the current tur (pigeon pea) dal crisis with raging market prices, storage issues, hoarding and economics, a new study highlighting the making of the crisis - by South Asia Network...
More »Supreme Court takes note of farmers’ distress -Shreeja Sen
-Livemint.com Saying that it was a true PIL, SC sought responses from the Centre in a farmers’ body plea for setting up a stabilization fund for cane farmers New Delhi: Saying that it was a true public interest litigation (PIL), the Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre in a farmers’ body plea for setting up a stabilization fund for cane farmers. The Central government is supposed to reply within six...
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