-Siasat.com Despite petitions being submitted to officials including the Adilabad district collector as well as select MLAs, there has been no concrete response from the government. Hyderabad: Jowar Farmers of Adilabad district in Telangana on Monday blocked main roads to protest against the state government’s refusal to procure jowar (sorghum). The Jowar Farmers in the district have time and again claimed that the Telangana government over the last four years has been unwilling...

-The Hindu Mysuru: Members of State Federation of Farmers and Sugarcane Cultivators Association staged a demonstration in the city on Sunday demanding India’s exit from the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The demonstration was held heeding the strike call issued by Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangha and is part of a nation-wide agitation being conducted by Farmers in support of their demands. Kurubur Shanthakumar, president of Sugarcane Cultivators Association, who addressed the Farmers said that ever...

-ThePrint.in The govt Wednesday raised support prices for 14 crops by 6 per cent, on an average — the highest in four years. New Delhi: India’s latest price support policy for Farmers places more emphasis on keeping consumer inflation in check than reflecting the new normal of rising cultivation costs and soaring food prices following the Ukraine war, a reading of the numbers show. The Narendra Modi government Wednesday announced minimum support prices...

-The Hindu It is ad hoc, hurts Farmers’ incomes, and may not impact inflation much  Over the last month, the government has banned the export of wheat and imposed quantitative restrictions on outbound sugar shipments. The wheat export ban came within days of a push to enhance India’s wheat supplies to the rest of the world after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This is a time of persistently high inflation, spurred by rising...

-Gaon Connection Under Uttar Pradesh State Rural Livelihood Mission, TRIF is training rural residents to make compost within 18 days using the Berkeley method. Women are using this compost to grow a variety of vegetables. Seema's one acre farmland is lush green even in peak summer season with a range of organic vegetables growing on it. It's been over nine months that the 33-year-old community worker from Urra village in Mihinpurwa block...