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The permanent debt trap of Gujarat -Rutam Vora

-The Hindu Business Line Farmers have been borrowing from banks to repay lenders and reversing the cycle Ahmedabad: In the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, a saying goes: “A farmer is always indebted. He is born in debt and dies with a debt. What matters is how he manages this debt in his life.” There is a skew in Gujarat’s water resource distribution. Saurashtra covers 31 per cent of the State’s landmass but gets...

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Bengal Farmers smell opportunity in aromatic rice -Shobha Roy

-The Hindu Business Line Strong demand, remunerative prices are the encouraging factors Kolkata: The uncertainty around production and prices of the common variety of paddy, Swarna, and the prospect of earning better income are driving Farmers in Burdwan district of West Bengal to go in for the cultivation of gobindobhog, a premium variety of aromatic rice. Gobindobhog, which got the GI (Geographical Indication) tag in August, is primarily cultivated in East Burdwan district...

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Farmer protest Day II: Agrarian crisis is policy, politics driven, says Yogendra Yadav -Pratyaksh Srivastava

-The Indian Express The protesting Farmers from various states across India are demanding implementation of Swaminathan Committee's recommendations, lower input costs, farm loan waiver and fair price for farm produce among other things. New Delhi: Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday said that the “prevailing agrarian crisis in the country is not by accident but is policy and politics driven”. Speaking to indianexpress.com during a Farmers’ protest in the national capital,...

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A wilful negligence -Colin Gonsalves

-The Indian Express Governments have not acted on recommendations of committees on farmer welfare How many more Farmers must die before the prime minister condescends to take notice? How many rats must the protesting Tamil Nadu Farmers at Jantar Mantar eat before the government acts? How many more fake farm loan waiver schemes will be announced before the cabinet realises that Farmers cannot be fooled anymore? Despite 300,000 Farmers taking their lives...

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Deceased Farmers' kin march to Delhi to find their voice -Nikita Doval and Sayantan Bera

-Livemint.com Hundreds of Farmers came to Delhi to tell their stories, but their problems are similar: crop failures, rising debt, losses from farming due to low crop prices leading to suicides New Delhi: A copy of the Telugu daily Sakshi, dating back to 2015, is M. Lakshmi Devi’s constant companion. The newspaper, a part of which is stained by tea, contains a report about the suicide of a debt-burdened farmer—her husband. “We had...

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