-The Indian Express After the market rates crashed to Rs 1-2 per kg, only 565 tomato growers across Haryana received the average price difference payment of Rs 2,136. Kurukshatra: Jasbir Saini shows a message on his iBall mobile phone displaying an amount of Rs 296 credited to his bank account. That’s what the 47-year-old has received as “differential price” on the distress sale of his tomato crop under the Haryana government’s Bhavantar...
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NITI Aayog wants states to adopt zero-budget natural farming
-Agencies (New Delhi)/ Business Standard States can promote ZBNF under the two farm sector schemes - Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana. NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar on Monday made a case for promoting zero-budget natural farming (ZBNF) in states, saying it would help double Farmers’ income by 2022. Aayog member Ramesh Chand, who is an expert in agriculture, said that such methods could be scaled up nationally only after...
More »Hike in MSP is political, say Farmers -Sreenivasa Rao Dasari
-Deccan Chronicle Seek a state-level intervention corporation. Hyderabad: The latest decision of the Centre to enhance minimum support price (MSP) for 14 crops has triggered a fresh debate on the cost of production and the procurement mechanism. Farmers say that the increase in MSP was a mere political decision and nothing has happened in reality, while agriculture experts agree that lack of consensus and clarity on support price is further adding to...
More »MSP -- Unfair to Farmers in food bowl states -Manjit S Kang
-The Tribune The input costs of only chosen Farmers are considered to decide the MSP. This is unfair to the Farmers of the 'Granary of India' as their input costs are much higher than those of Farmers from the rest of the country. In the Indian system, Farmers are the only 'businessmen' who cannot set their own price for their products —foodgrains. Even a 'rehrhi-wala' sets his own price daily for whatever...
More »Maharashtra: Milk Farmers' unions demand direct subsidy -Parthasarathi Biswas
-The Indian Express Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, a farmer’s body led by MP Raju Shetti, has said it will go ahead with the plan to stop milk supply to Mumbai and Pune from July 16. Pune: A day after the cabinet minister for dairy development, animal husbandry and fisheries, Mahadev Jankar, declared export subsidy for skimmed milk powder to improve the procurement price of milk, Farmers’ unions have criticised the move. Swabhimani...
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