-The Hindu Business Line An analysis of how agri concerns will play out in four poll-bound States this year has some key takeaways for politicians ‘Rural distress’ became the major economic narrative to interpret the recent Assembly elections results for Gujarat, specifically the fact that rural support for the incumbent government was considerably less than the support from cities. The woes of the rural sector could be a bigger issue this year. Of...
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Dues to sugarcane farmers soar to Rs.14,000 crore -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Payment to cane growers is considered ‘due’ when it is delayed by more than 14 days after supplying raw cane to a mill New Delhi: Following higher sugar production and plummeting Wholesale Prices, dues to sugarcane farmers from mills are piling up, shows latest numbers. According to the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), till January end, sugar mills across various states owed farmers Rs13,932 crore. Payment to cane growers is considered ‘due’...
More »Tomato prices in MP fall from Rs 30/kg in Oct to Rs 2/kg
-PTI Due to a bumper crop, Wholesale Prices of tomato in Madhya Pradesh have plummeted to as low as Rs 2 per kg, from Rs 30 in October, farmers said. Yogesh Septa, a farmer from Raipuria village in Petlawad area of Jhabua district, a major tomato-producing region, said, "We are getting on average Rs 2 per kilogram of tomatoes in wholesale markets. We won't recover even the production and harvesting cost at...
More »Govt keeps stepping in to drive down prices of onions; farmers ask what about us -Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Nashik, Maharashtra; In state producing most onions, 60% grown here Nashik: As Santosh Gorade, 38, tends to his 3.5 acres of onion crop, he says he will do this for “maximum six-seven years more”. After that, the farmer from Takli Vinchur village in Nashik plans to get out of farming. “It’s too volatile and market forces are always against us,” he sighs. Under no circumstances, he adds, does he...
More »Uttar Pradesh's Hot Potato: Another Farm Crisis Ignored -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Despite knowing the problem, both the state and central governments have failed to address the crisis that UP’s potato farmers are facing. Devi Singh (46) grows potatoes in the rabi season in Saras, a village of 1,200 people in Mathura, part of Uttar Pradesh’s potato belt. In 2017, he suffered massive losses as the price of potatoes in the wholesale market fell well below the cost of production. Last Thursday, he...
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