The reported decision of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs taken at a meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, to keep the minimum support price of cotton unchanged for kharif season 2010-11 has left three million growers of the state unhappy. Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti president Kishore Tiwari said, "The prices were last revised in 2008-09 and during election year it were raised to Rs 3,000 a quintal more...
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Punjab’s paddy farmers suffer labour pangs by Jangveer Singh
Punjab farmers have been struck a double blow on the eve of the paddy transplantation season, which starts tomorrow. Reliant on migrant labour to transplant paddy on 26 lakh hectares, they are witnessing a few arrivals on trains coming in from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Farmers also do not have the option of falling back on mechanised transplantation with the experiment launched with full fanfare by the state government last...
More »Free power emptying Punjab groundwater: Montek by Priyadarshi Siddhanta
The Punjab government’s policy to provide free power to the farm sector has led to alarming depletion of its groundwater besides unleashing a huge power Subsidy burden of more than Rs 3,000 crore, the Planning Commission has said. The Commission has asked the SAD-BJP government in the state to do away with free power to the sector and begin charging “appropriate tariff” for it. In a letter to Punjab Chief...
More »Vietnam trains Indian fishermen by B Kolappan
In normal circumstances, E. Altrin, a fisherman from Rameswaram, would have sold the juvenile lobsters, each weighing 50 gm, in the market after the catch. That is no longer the case. Nowadays, whenever he gets the juveniles he shifts them to the floating cage in the sea. “After four months in the cages, these juveniles grow in size and weigh 200 gm. If I sell the juveniles I will get only...
More »Drought hit HP farmers to get cheaper kharif seeds by Baldev S Chauhan
Drought hit farmers in Himachal Pradesh will get 50 per cent Subsidy on kharif seeds. “Due to deficient rains from October to March coupled with the abnormal rise in temperature in March and April the standing grain crops have been partly damaged,” said a spokesman of the state agriculture department. The official said in the current kharif season, about 35,000 quintals of seeds will be supplied by the department to the farmers...
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