-TheNewsMinute.com Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, who became the district’s first woman collector when she took charge in May 2018, says her daughter enjoys going to the anganwadi daily. At a time when parents across the state are in deep discussions over which play school to admit their wards in the coming summer, Tirunelveli’s first woman collector, Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, has chosen a government run anganwadi for her daughter. And the 2009 batch...
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MSP intervention: A different surplus -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express The unprecedented procurement of pulses and oilseeds in the last couple of years has created problems — and opportunities. If there’s one area in agriculture where the Narendra Modi government has probably broken fresh ground, it is in the procurement of pulses and oilseeds. During the 2016-17 and 2017-18 agricultural years (July-June), the Central agencies — National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed), Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC)...
More »Slumping potato PRIces hit farmers, but worse is yet to come -Kiran Pandey
-Down to Earth Farmers and cold storage owners pay the PRIce of producing and storing bumper crops as wholesale PRIces dip by 39-50 per cent in December Hit by low wholesale PRIces, potato farmers in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab have not been able to recover even the production cost of the crop as market PRIce of potatoes crashed by 39-50 per cent in December 2018, shows the latest report on the crop...
More »Enrolment under PMFBY crop insurance scheme sees steep decline -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Delayed assessment of loss and settlement of claims by insurance companies may have led to farmers losing faith in Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, say analysts New Delhi: Sharad Markad, a lanky teenager from a marginal farming family in Maharashtra, spent the first day of 2019 scrounging for funds. Faced with a drought, the third in the past five years, Markad had taken it upon himself to build a community cattle...
More »Fundamental flaws in crop insurance scheme's design makes it ineffective -Devinder Sharma
-Livemint.com The government did not visualize there were problems in the way it was designed, the methodology itself was faulty Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the flagship programme launched with much fanfare in 2016, has run into rough weather. With both the area covered and the number of enrolled farmers declining, the country’s premium crop insurance scheme is certainly in need of an overhaul. While Parliament’s committee on estimates, chaired by senior...
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