-The Hindu The children of the Farmers who committed suicide do not receive the support or counselling they need to recover from the resulting mental trauma. Jyoti Shelar visits the villages in Maharashtra worst affected by farmer suicide and reports on these minors’ struggle to get their lives back on track “Every time I open the door, I see my father’s body,” says 14-year-old Nikita Surwase, pointing at the iron shaft on...
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From Plate To Plough: A vision coloured green -Ashok Gulati & Ritika Juneja
-The Indian Express Operation Greens must build forward and backward linkages between Farmers and markets. It can learn from Operation Flood. The finance minister announced Operation Greens, on the lines of Operation Flood, with a seed capital of Rs 500 crore in his speech on February 1. Three days later, the Prime Minister backed the scheme at a parivartan rally in Bengaluru. He said Farmers are his TOP priority — T is...
More »National meet on doubling Farmers' income opens on Monday
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: The government, which has very little to show so far as achievement on its ambitious plan of doubling Farmers’ income by 2022, is organising a two-day brainstorming meet of various stake-holders, including Farmers and farmer bodies. The national conference, scheduled from Monday, would be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, apart from his cabinet colleagues and top government officials. According to SK Pattanayak, Union Agriculture Secretary, the...
More »To Harvest Enterprise -Lola Nayar
-Outlook A tax holiday is expected to push more Farmers to turn entrepreneurial The Budget’s announcement of a five-year tax holiday for Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) with a turnover of up to Rs 100 crore came as a relief to the thousands of Farmers who are members of around 4,000 such companies in the country. In December 2017, a sizeable number of Farmers gathered at a national conference organised in Pune were...
More »Millet Mission to tackle nutrition in Odisha's Nuapada
-The New Indian Express NUAPADA: The State Government has decided to introduce traditional small millets to feed children at anganwadi centres in the district shortly. This will replace the ‘Sattu’, a mixture of Bengal gram flour, wheat and other cereals, being served to the children and which has run into controversy after insect and foreign bodies were found in the old stock of the food.A preparatory meeting, chaired by Zilla Parishad...
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