-The Indian Express As per the data available with nodal officer Dinesh Singla, who is Executive Engineer, PPCB, a total of 2589 fire incidents have been reported in Punjab this paddy season till October 21 in which Amritsar tops with 535 cases, followed by Tarn Taran with 494 cases. Ludhiana: WITH JUST one-fourth of the total estimated paddy arrival in mandis till now, a total of 2589 fire incidents have been reported...
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Economic logic of setting paddy fields on fire -Sayantan Bera and Shrishti Choudhary
-Livemint.com Since the paddy straw cannot be used as animal feed, Farmers set fire to it to get the field ready for the next crop of wheat New Delhi: On a balmy evening last week, Sandeep Singhroha, a Farmer from Haryana’s Karnal district, set fire to a pile of paddy stubble with a matchstick and then dragged the pile across his field with a garden fork. Soon, the two-acre plot was up...
More »Make farming gender sensitive, and frame schemes keeping women Farmers in mind, say NGOs in Gujarat -Ritu Sharma
-The Indian Express The women organisations also demanded a gender-based segregated data for women and men Farmers. Ahmedabad: An umbrella group of more than 40 NGOs on Tuesday submitted a 12-point representation to the state government demanding agricultural schemes to be more women Farmer sensitive. The Working Group for Women and Land Ownership (WGWLO) has demanded a special and separate budgetary provision for women Farmers, besides seeking agricultural schemes that are designed...
More »Is food inflation round the corner? -Harish Damodaran & Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express First, it was low prices and, now, with soaring input costs, Farmers may cut back on sowings Nashik/ New Delhi: During much of the current government’s tenure, Indian Farmers have suffered from poor crop realisations, partly due to the crash in global agri-commodity prices after around April 2014 and aggravated by demonetisation and GST (goods and services tax) that have depressed sentiment in predominantly cash-based produce markets. One indicator...
More »Worsening Situation in our villages -Ashwani Mahajan
-The New Indian Express In August, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) released the All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey, 2016-17 In August, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) released the All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey, 2016-17. It has revealing data about the worsening situation of Farmers and villages across India. The survey shows that the average monthly income of rural households in India is...
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