-The Hindu Cooperative societies will get the amount in a phased manner Chennai: Pursuant to the announcement made by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on the waiver of agricultural loans availed by small and micro Farmers from cooperative banks, the State government has issued specific guidelines to be followed while implementing the waiver. According to the Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS), the scheme would be applicable to entire outstanding principal, interest, penal interest and all...
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In drought-hit Saurashtra, poor internet network can often mean no food rations -Aarefa Johari
-Scroll.in In this parched region of Gujarat, cattle are either starving to death or have been abandoned. Two months ago, Bhimabhai Chhaiya made a hopeful trip to the government ration shop near his village of Sumri in Gujarat’s Jamnagar district. After three consecutive years of poor rainfall, the cotton Farmer was heavily in debt. Food prices, meanwhile, seemed to be at an all-time high. Wheat, which had cost Rs 20 to Rs 25...
More »Crashing lease rentals in Punjab spell agricultural downturn -Anju Agnihotri Chaba
-The Indian Express This has been brought about mainly by declining price realisations in basmati paddy and Bt cotton, the two crops profitable enough to make it worthwhile for Farmers to expand acreages. Jalandhar: Lease rentals on farmlands in Punjab — India’s granary state — have collapsed, providing the clearest indication of an agricultural downturn and Farmers choosing to go back to growing parmal paddy in place of high-risk basmati and cotton...
More »Maharashtra Farmers can now directly tap wholesalers -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: The Maharashtra Cabinet has given in-principle approval to Farmers to sell fruits and vegetables directly to wholesalers, bypassing the APMC mandis. However, it has held back the decision by a few days, handing it over to a cabinet sub-committee. "A cabinet sub-committee will take a decision on the matter in four days. We want to examine different angles such as the risk involved in Farmers getting payment when...
More »Parched Land. Farmer Suicides. Forced Migration: Drought Is Crippling Rural India -Vivek Singh
-HuffingtonPost.com In Bundelkhand, people struggle for every drop of water they can find. TIKAMGARH DISTRICT: For years, Lakshman Pal, 28, planted wheat and tended to his small field here. Each season, he hoped for rain. He looked up at the sky and waited for the showers that normally came. But for the past two years, they’ve hardly come at all. His crops eventually withered and died, crumbling to dust. In early May, Pal...
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