-Livemint.com On demonetisation’s impact on the agriculture sector, the Economic Survey said higher winter plantings may not necessarily lead to higher production New Delhi: India’s farm sector is entwined in regulation and is a living legacy of the socialist era, the Economic Survey released on Tuesday said, criticizing curbs on marketing of agriculture produce and imposition of stock limits on traders. “While progress has been made in the last two years, producers (farmers)...
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Raipur farmers give away 1 lakh kilos of vegetables for free in protest against demonetisation
-Scroll.in The Kisan Sangh demanded that the government waive the interest on their farm loans for the current season. Farmers in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district gave away their vegetables for free on Monday to protest against the impact of demonetisation on their businesses, PTI reported. Nearly 30,000 citizens queued up in the Dharna Sthal area as over 1 lakh kg of vegetables were handed out, PTI reported. Vegetables prices have gone down drastically in...
More »Arhar prices fall below MSP after bumper crop -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Prices may dip further once the harvest from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh hits markets in January New Delhi: After moong, prices of arhar, a major rain-fed kharif crop, have plunged below support prices in major growing states such as Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh where the crop has reached markets. The dip in Wholesale prices follows a record crop due to a normal south-west monsoon and farmers increasing its acreage, taking a...
More »Here's why rates of some vegetables are seeing a dip -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Tomato and other vegetables prices, including those of onion and potato, have come down after demonetisation. But the National Horticulture Board, which tracks horticultural produce markets across the country , has found that the fall has more to do with transporters' resistance to pick up the produce from farms than to a poor cash flow at the farmers' end. Ground reports, shared with the board, have...
More »Farmers forced to dump their produce as note ban turns bumper crop worthless - Srinivasa Rao Apparasu, Brajendra K Parashar, Punya Priya Mitra & Manoj Ahuja
-Hindustan Times Farmers across India are battling a steep fall in wholesale vegetable prices and are forced to discard their produce as a nationwide cash crunch following the scrapping of high-value banknotes hurts demand. The crash in Wholesale prices comes at a bad time for farmers, who reaped a bumper crop and were hoping for good returns to make up for losses induced by two straight drought years. Please click here to read...
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