-The Indian Express Getting the right remuneration is the most critical issue facing Farmers. Government must provide policy, institutional framework for procurement. The Farmer and his income is an important theme of discussion these days. A lot is being written on ways to increasing, and doubling, the Farmers’ incomes by the year 2022. Viewed arithmetically, the income of a Farmer is a function of three things — the cost of cultivation, production...

-The Times of India In the next few days, India’s northern region, especially Delhi, is again likely to become among the most polluted places on earth because a vast number of Farmers in Punjab and Haryana have decided to continue their annual ritual of setting fire to paddy straw. This has brought back the spectre of smog choking the region despite the Centre doling out more than Rs 1,000 crore to the...

-The Hindu Farmer Ghani Khan is a conservator at heart; his on-site exhibit has traditional strains of rice Mysuru: Armed with a degree in archaeology and museology from the University of Mysore, Ghani Khan of Kirugavalu in Malavalli taluk of Mandya district nurtured dreams of being a curator in a museum, conserving and showcasing heritage artefacts. But fate had other plans. He became a Farmer, a family tradition, and his dreams of a...

-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has betrayed Farmers on its promise of providing remunerative minimum support prices (MSP) by announcing floor prices for rabi crops for 2018-19 far below the promised C2+50 per cent, All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) said on Thursday. “What is notable is that this comes just after the much-hyped claims after Farmers’ protests on Tuesday that the BJP will address all concerns of...

-Mumbai Mirror The Modi government says it will double Farmers’ real earnings by 2022, but so far, it has only delivered committees and reports. In early 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to double Farmers’ income by 2022, and the government subsequently set up an inter-ministerial committee led by Ashok Dalwai, additional secretary in the agriculture ministry, to prepare a roadmap. About two weeks ago, the committee submitted its fourteenth and final...