-Down to Earth Hounded by cow vigilantes and trade restrictions, Farmers in Uttar Pradesh's border areas abandon their unproductive cattle in Nepalese villages creating havoc there Residents of Semri village in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district drew a plan for "invasion" on April 2, 2018. They called a meeting of Farmers and agriculture labourers to take a call on the stray cattle menace. With the state closing down illegal slaughter houses in...
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Expect more distress in farm sector, warns expert -M Ramesh
-The Hindu Business Line Opening farm sector for global trade will give Farmers a bigger market: S Narayan Farm sector distress is expected to worsen, cautioned S Narayan, who was the Economic Adviser to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. No remunerative prices Speaking on ‘Economy in Election Year’, organised by the Chennai chapter of the Observers Research Foundation, Narayan said the underlying problem is one of abundance of production and Farmers not getting...
More »Doubling Farmers' income: Dalwai committee empowered to oversee implementation
-Financial Express The government has asked the Ashok Dalwai committee to oversee the implementation of its recommendations so that the promise of doubling Farmers’ income is achieved by 2022. The committee on doubling Farmers’ income (DFI), headed by Ashok Dalwai, the CEO of Rainfed Area Authority, will act as an ‘empowered body’ to coordinate with different ministries as well as among various departments within the agriculture ministry, officials said. The empowered group will...
More »Farm loan waivers can derail India's growth story -Ramesh Chand
-Hindustan Times Loan waiver provides strong disincentive for those who repaid loan on time and perverse incentive for default. But the most serious effect of the waiver is potential risk of fiscal slippage . India’s agricultural economy witnessed significant changes during the post reforms period, many of which were positive, but some were negative. Income of Farmers could not keep pace with their aspirations and fast growth in the income of non-farm...
More »Will farm loan waiver go the way of the property tax repeal? -Indira Rajaraman
-Livemint.com All recent reforms mooted on farm credit do not address the needs of Farmers for whom formal credit doors are shut Farm distress has been a sadly persistent feature for the past five years, the initial two years on account of failed rains, but in the last three years because of policy failure on a number of fronts, including, most visibly, unremunerative prices for farm produce. That it shapes electoral...
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