-Financial Express Two measures can do much to bring back price sentiment and liquidity in agricultural markets, just when farmers are set to harvest a bumper crop. The current economic slowdown began with Bharat. It has to also end with Bharat. According to the National Statistical Office’s GDP estimates for April-June 2019 released on Friday, India’s agriculture sector — which includes forestry and fishing — grew 2.04% year-on-year during the quarter....
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Agri GDP growth falls: Doubling farmers' income in next 3 years looks a tough task -Rajalakshmi Nirmal
-The Hindu Business Line While production has dropped, it has not been accompanied by a commensurate increase in price Last week, while the CSO released the Q1 GDP numbers, it also showed numbers for agriculture, forestry and fishing as a segment. For the June quarter, this segment’s growth in real terms was 2 per cent, against 5.1 per cent in the same quarter of the previous year. Agri GDP growth has been sliding...
More »Agri families borrow more, eat less to cope with kin's suicide: study -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com * Average income of farm suicide families was just Rs.3,523 per month in 2016-17, below Rs.4,561 estimated by NSSO: study * The study found that 92% of farm suicide families were not enrolled under the centre’s flagship crop insurance scheme NEW DELHI: Agricultural households are trying to cope with the suicide of an earning member of the family by borrowing more, skimping on food and even taking recourse to bonded labour, a...
More »2.66 lakh beneficiaries of farmer assistance scheme KALIA found ineligible: Odisha minister -Sampad Patnaik
-The Indian Express The government will take a call on the process to retrieve the money from the ineligible beneficiaries after August 31, when the scrutiny is complete. Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has found that 2.66 lakh recipients of assistance under its Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme are not eligible for the benefit, Agriculture Minister Arun Sahoo said on Thursday. The government will take a call on the...
More »From Plate to Plough: Unlock the land markets -Ashok Gulati & Ritika Juneja
-The Indian Express High powered commitee for transformation of agriculture should reform restrictive tenancy laws, protect rights of landowners. Early in its second term, on July 1, the Narendra Modi government constituted a High Powered Committee of Chief Ministers for Transformation of Indian Agriculture. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was appointed the committee’s convenor. The Committee is supposed to submit its report within two months. Its terms of reference (ToR) pertain...
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