-Livemint.com In a year when Maharashtra’s agriculture sector recorded a growth of 12.5%, a look at why Farmers in regions as distantly located as Nashik and Wardha are up in arms Ahmedabad/ Nashik/ Warda (Maharashtra): Rajendra Borgude, 42, is a prosperous Farmer half of whose 50 acre-irrigated farmland goes under grape cultivation. He drives a Nissan Terrano and was able to get a crop loan of Rs12 lakh from Nashik District Central...
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Haryana Farmers to gherao Niti Aayog office on July 3 -Sukhbir Siwach
-The Indian Express Several Farmers’ outfits, which met in Delhi on Monday, have also announced that they would launch a jail bharo agitation from August 9, on which date the Quit India Movement began in 1942. Chandigarh: FarmerS from Haryana and other states, who have been agitating on host of issues, will reach Delhi on July 3 to gherao the Niti Aayog office in the national capital and start an indefinite dharna...
More »A Dark Satire -Ajay Vir Jakhar
-The Indian Express Branding the Farmer agitations ‘political’ betrays a lack of understanding There is no proof required that economists commenting on Farmer issues have reached an affliction point. When the counsellor one seeks advice from is as callous as saying that the Farmers’ agitation was political and justifies it by citing declining Farmer suicides and rising Farmer prosperity (‘Just why are Farmers rioting?’ by Surjit Bhalla, IE, June 10), one can’t...
More »Punjab 3rd state to waive farm loans, to take Rs 24,000 crore hit
-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: The farm loan waiver fever is spreading across the country, threatening to place a huge additional burden on the already creaking finances of state governments. On Monday, Punjab became the third state this year — after UP and Maharashtra — to announce a total waiver of all crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh for small and marginal Farmers (up to 5 acres) and a flat Rs...
More »Of songs and seeds: This MP man is on a mission to save tradition, local crops -Neeraj Santoshi
-Hindustan Times Madhya Pradesh’s Babulal Dahiya is a collector of folk songs and seeds and has sown 110 varieties of rice to preserve them. Bhopal: He is a collector of folk songs and seeds. And it was while collecting Bagheli folklore, this 72-year-old Farmer cum Bagheli poet realized that saving folk songs and sayings won’t mean much if the local crop varieties, which repeatedly crop up in the folk literature, are...
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