-The Times of India NEW DELHI: As different states have come out with various schemes to protect Farmers from price volatility, the Centre has expressed its willingness to support them all within the existing schemes and may even spend more in 2018-19 to procure agricultural and horticultural commodities at remunerative prices. "We will not reject states' requests. We would like states to procure as much as required to reduce Farmers' pain and...
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'NDA govt the most anti-Farmer in India's history'
-The Hindu Business Line ‘Green paper’ says Centre has not helped Farmers in crisis; net returns at MSP in last four years much lower than under UPA-II New Delhi: Farmer groups on Tuesday termed the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre the most anti-Farmer in the history of independent India and said its budgetary announcements were just grandstanding, with little action or money to back them. Bringing out what they...
More »CSDS Mood of the Nation Survey, 2018: Crop prices biggest concern for Farmers -Sanjay Kumar and others
-The Indian Express One in every four Farmer respondents across all regions of the country said low prices of crops was their most pressing problem. The current crisis in India’s farm sector is perhaps the worst in the last 15-odd years. The Lokniti-CSDS survey (Part 1 was published on Wednesday) has a separate section on Farmers’ issues, intended to throw light on their concerns and problems. One in every four Farmer respondents across...
More »Taking their cue from economic survey, activists attack govt for failing to address farm concerns -Vishwa Mohan
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Flagging poor returns to Farmers due to low minimum support price (MSP) and inadequate market interventions, farm activists on Tuesday demanded setting up a permanent statutory commission on Farmers' income and asked the government to take measures to ensure remunerative prices to cultivators and make the farming climate resilient. Pointing at the economic survey which found only a slight increase in real agriculture income in the...
More »Modi Government Is the Most Anti-Farmer One in the History of Independent India, Say Activists -Anmol Nayak
-TheWire.in In a green paper, organisations have pointed out how a number of promises made to Farmers have not been kept. New Delhi: Terming the Narendra Modi government as the “most anti-Farmer government in the history of independent India” for reneging on its “core” promise of revising minimum support prices (MSP), a ‘green paper’ on agriculture says the Bharatiya Janata Party’s pledge to “double farm incomes by 2022” remains a distant dream. “The...
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