-PTI Consultations on with States, NITI Aayog to increase the income of Farmers New Delhi: Farmers are not getting the mimimum support price (MSP) for their crops, and efforts are being made so that they get the right remuneration, Radha Mohan Singh, Agriculture Minister, said on Friday. During Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Singh said that from his experience he felt that Farmers often did not get the price settled as the...
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Loan: Rs 41,700 Waived: Rs 7 -Arnab Ganguly
-The Telegraph Chandigarh: Farmer Balwinder Singh from Patiala had taken a loan of Rs 41,700 from a cooperative bank. When he received his loan-waiver certificate from the Punjab government on Sunday, the amount waived was mentioned as Rs 7. On a day chief minister Amarinder Singh launched the loan-waiver scheme in Chandigarh to help distressed Farmers, many across the state alleged only a fraction of their debts had been written off. While Balwinder...
More »Old irrigation method a big hit in hills -Akshaya Kumar Sahoo
-The Asian Age The increase in the income has also halted migration of local people to other states in search of work. Bhubaneswar: Grappling with financial problems because of non-remunerative character of their age-old agricultural practices, villagers living in hilly areas of Odisha’s Gajapati district have suddenly found enough money coming to their pockets by adoption of traditional methods of irrigation. Sourcing water in the Diversion Based Irrigation (DBI) system from the streams...
More »True victims of farm crisis -Kota Neelima
-DNA The impact of drought on women Farmers remains unregistered by the state, which considers them only in their non-farm roles in rural households and village communities. The new drought relief manual is no different as it merely provides an alibi for the state to abdicate its responsibility towards farm crises and utilises gender to reduce its intervention in agriculture by addressing only one half of the population. Drought is never too...
More »Why Farmers don't have electoral clout -Avik Saha and Yogendra Yadav
-Down to Earth Although Farmers vote at least as much, if not more than industrial workers or urban middle classes, elections are not fought around Farmers' issues Elections are about numbers. Democratic politics is about stitching together a majority. So, the larger a group, the bigger is its “vote bank”, and greater is its electoral clout. A social group that constitutes a majority can therefore dictate its terms in an electoral democracy....
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