-Newsclick.in Almost all the farmers from Sitarampur are not eligible under any of the farmers’ schemes in the state as they cultivate endowment lands. Ahead of the 2019 Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, the Telangana government has launched an insurance scheme for farmers, termed as ‘Rythu Bandhu Bheema’, but the real cultivators – landless tenant farmers, agricultural labourers who are considered to be most prone to distress among farming communities are not...
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Telangana releases Rs. 5,925 crore farm aid for rabi season
-The Hindu Business Line Hyderabad: The Telangana government has released ?5,925 crore for the second phase of the Rythu Bandhu Scheme for the rabi season. This is part of the ?11,925-crore allocated in the 2018-19 Budget for the scheme that seeks to provide financial assistance of ?4,000 each to farmers for every acre they own. The scheme is aimed at providing liquidity to farmers to take care of the purchase of inputs ahead...
More »How Telangana supports farmers with Rs 4,000 for every acre they own -Sreenivas Janyala
-The Indian Express A look at the scheme Rythu Bandhu, seen by Arvind Subramanian as a template for agriculture policy. Hyderabad: A support scheme for farmers in Telangana has earned the appreciation of outgoing Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, who spoke about it during an Idea Exchange interaction with The Indian Express journalists and then wrote in The Financial Express that it can be the template for social and agricultural policy. Called...
More »Tenant farmers bear the brunt of agri distress -KV Kurmanath
-The Hindu Business Line Most suicides among landless and marginal farmers Hyderabad: Tenant farmers and cotton growers in Telangana are under severe distress according to a survey of farm families whose bread winner committed suicide. About 75 per cent of the suicide were by tenant farmers and 81 per cent of them were cotton growers. The survey by the Rythu Swarajya Vedika and a group of students from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)...
More »An unlikely village for Rythu Bandhu Scheme
-The Hindu Land owners get money, those who till get nothing CHANDA (T) (ADILABAD DISRICT): Chanda (T), the village where the Rythu Bandhu programme was launched by Forest Minister Jogu Ramanna in Adilabad district on Thursday threw up a curious scenario as only those who could seemingly do without investment support receiving it and those who forcefully lay claim to it by virtue of being poor landless being ignored. Yes, almost all those...
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