-The New Indian Express GUNTUR: Subhash Palekar, inventor of Zero Budget Spiritual Farming, conducted an awareness programme on natural farming methods for Farmers at KSPR Stadium in Narasaraopet on Tuesday. He exhorted Farmers to opt for natural farming as it helps reduce their cultivation costs and achieve higher yield. He felt that ryot suicides due to debt burden could be checked by promoting natural farming in a big way in the...

-NDTV Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian says Farmers would not only lose the income from livestock as meat but also have to incur additional costs to maintain unproductive cattle. Already, he adds, there was research to suggest that returns to livestock farming are in any case "very low or even negative". NEW DELHI:  Arvind Subramanian, the government's Chief Economic Adviser, has broken his silence on the issue of cattle slaughter. And...

-The Hindu Economist suggests implementation of a radical form of and distribution and ‘low external input sustainable agriculture’ system Mumbai: Economist and former member of Maharashtra State Planning Board H.M. Desarda, on Tuesday termed the recently announced farm loan waiver by the State government as a necessary but not sufficient condition to deal with the problems related to agriculture. Prof. Desarda linked today’s problems in agriculture to ecology and traced their origins to...

-The Financial Express Pune: Prominent farm activist and current chairman of the special task force constituted by the government of Maharashtra on agrarian crisis, Kishore Tiwari, has urged CM Devendra Fadnavis to cover all the Farmers of the 14 distressed districts of Vidarbha and Marathwada in the blanket loan waiver announced on Sunday without any conditions. Welcoming the loan waiver announced by the government, Tiwari said Farmers in the distressed districts...

-Livemint.com Considering the meticulous and methodical preparations that went into making the Farmers protests count, Puntamba village’s moment of glory appears well deserved Puntamba, Maharashtra: Sarjerao Jadhav, a Farmer in Puntamba village of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, remembers the day when a special gram sabha (village panchayat assembly) passed the resolution saying Farmers would go on strike from 1 June. “On 3 April, when we moved this resolution, we thought we would begin...