-Business Standard Though their intensity has been less so far and the exact impact on the crop is not yet known It is that time of the year when farmers in north and central India worry incessantly of unseasonal rain and hail. As the weather offices had predicted, these have resurfaced in the last few days. Though their intensity has been less so far and the exact impact on the crop is not...
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Budget 2016: Govt to spend Rs 5,500 cr on crop insurance scheme
-Business Standard An uniform premium of 2% needs to be paid by farmers for all Kharif crops and 1.5% for all rabi crops The government is planning to spend Rs 5,500 crore for the crop insurance scheme that was announced earlier, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. In his Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the farmers will have to pay a nominal premium for the coverage. There will be an...
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Amidst uncertainty over India's performance in terms of agricultural production and livelihood security of rural population, the Union Budget of 2016-17 will be presented by Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley on 29 February. Given the extent of drought in more than 10 states of India during 2015-16, it is expected that the NDA Government will allocate more resources for rejuvenating the rural sector. Since the country has seen two years of...
More »Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, interviewed by Purnima S Tripathi
-Frontline.in Even though the country is in the grip of an unprecedented agrarian crisis and many parts are experiencing severe drought conditions, Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh says there is nothing to worry. “The government is fully geared to meet the challenges. All precautionary measures have been taken to help farmers deal with the crisis. They need not fear anything,” he said in a telephonic interview from...
More »PM woos rural India with infrastructure, farm security dreams
-Hindustan Times Bhubaneswar/ Dongargarh: PM Narendra Modi wooed rural India on Sunday, inaugurating a rural-urban or Rurban mission at Dongargarh in Chhattisgarh and exhorting Odisha farmers to sign up for his government’s crop insurance scheme. The Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Scheme, aimed at improving basic infrastructure, was launched from the Maoist-hit district of Rajnandgaon. “When we talk of smart cities, why can’t we talk of smart villages? The villages in our country...
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