-Down to Earth Procurement at the doorstep, direct income support and reaching out to farmers can help in easing farming operations at this crucial time The extension of the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), though necessary, will lead to a further suspension of work and no wages and means for families to support themselves. The activities in manufacturing and services, that provide non-essentials, may be suspended, though with serious...
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India’s farmers can keep economy running in Covid crisis. But who will tell Modi govt that? -Yogendra Yadav
-ThePrint.in This is the moment to thank farmers. You don’t need thali or taali for that, you just need to ensure they get a fair price. Then we can kickstart India’s economy. As many states in north India begin their food grain Procurement operations and more and more news begin to filter in from rural India, we can see one of the biggest blunders of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown strategy: it might...
More »Farming under lockdown: Short on labourers, a long harvest -Vikas Vasudeva & Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Even though a record crop is expected this year, the lockdown may have robbed farmers of the chance to reap profits. There are no migrant labourers to help with harvesting and Procurement, and no transport facilities to take the produce to markets in many parts of the country, report Vikas Vasudeva and Priscilla Jebaraj Jagtar Singh is a man in a hurry. It’s April 15, and with temperatures starting to...
More »Punjab’s plan for seamless wheat Procurement with social distancing -Raakhi Jagga
-The Indian Express To manage these efforts, the government is using IT. Starting with the arrival of wheat to its Procurement by a private or government agency, the IT section of the Mandi Board will be shepherding the process. Ludhiana: In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a key challenge for the Punjab government has been to ensure that the Procurement of wheat is done in a seamless manner while adhering to...
More »Coronavirus lockdown: Choked supply lines to be cleared -Nistula Hebbar
-The Hindu Harvesting and Procurement of of food grains form priority New Delhi: Stoppered supply lines with trucks waiting on highways, the ongoing harvest season and Procurement of food grains in various parts of the country are some of the issues that will inform the kind of lockdown the country will continue to have post April 14. Government sources said that smoothening the supply lines that have still to be seamless and the...
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