-Scroll.in The government is calling it 'semi-scarcity'. In barren Saurashtra, farmers say that water promised to them from the Narmada project has not been reliable. For almost three years, bathing has been a luxury for Manjuben Jhala. The 50-year-old dairy farmer from Sowarada village has spent all her summer days herding cattle across the barren landscape of Gujarat’s Jamnagar district, in search of fodder and a few scoops of water for her frail...
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NREGS scores a point in 1st report card with highest spend of Rs 56,000 crore in FY16 -Ruchika Chitravanshi
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: For the first time ever, the Narendra Modi government is bringing out a performance review of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), highlighting the highest ever expenditure of Rs 56,000 crore undertaken in 2015-16 which includes Rs 12,000 crore paid in pending wages this year. The scheme generated 235 crore person days of wage employment, highest in last 5 years. However, it continued to lag in...
More »FDI in food trade sans infra creation ‘rider’ irks Food Processing Ministry -Aditi Nigam
-The Hindu Business Line ‘Astonished’ RSS-backed farmers’ body seeks immediate roll-back New Delhi: The Centre’s nod for 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in trading of food products with “no riders”, has not only raised the hackles of the Food Processing Ministry, which has been pushing for 15 per cent mandatory investment in creation of back-end infrastructure to reduce wastage and create jobs, but has also irked farmers organisations, such as...
More »Kharif sowing slows down further despite monsoon progress
-The Hindu Business Line New Delhi: Sowing of kharif crops slowed down further in the third week of June, despite considerable progress in monsoon rains, with the total area sown falling by almost 24 per cent to 124.94 lakh hectares (lh) compared with 164.10 lh at this time last year. States have reported that till June 24, rice has been sown/transplanted on 19.86 lh (21.86 lh), pulses on 9.66 lh (12.19 lh)...
More »Tomato price rise: Failed seeds have hurt production, not just extreme heat -Mridula Chari
-Scroll.in Farmers in Maharashtra say almost all the seeds supplied by one company contracted a disease. A failure of tomato seeds might have contributed to the current rise in tomato prices across Maharashtra, if not the rest of the country. Since April, tomato prices have more than doubled across India. While the conventional wisdom has attributed this to excessive heat and unseasonal rain that affected the tomato crop at its flowering stage, farmers...
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