-IANS NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday unveiled a seven-point strategy to double the income of Farmers in six years with measures to step up irrigation, provide better quality seeds and prevent post-harvest losses. "In the past, the emphasis has been on agricultural output, rather than on Farmers' incomes. I've set the objective of doubling the Farmers' income by 2022," the prime minister told the Bloomberg India Economic Forum here. "I...
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Brinkmanship over a limited dispute -Yogendra Yadav
-The Hindu The Centre should step forward and bring both Punjab and Haryana, ruled by the BJP and an ally, to the negotiating table to resolve the crisis over the Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal Contemporary India illustrates the tragic paradox of Farmers’ politics: they get divided just when they need to unite the most. The last few years have witnessed a deepening of the agrarian crisis in India. This is the moment when...
More »The Government Must Act on the CAG’s Damning Report on Rice Milling and Paddy Procurement -Gursharan Singh
-TheWire.in The current policies and systems of implementation result in heavy losses and are a huge disservice to Farmers and consumers. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh once remarked in an interview that “we are a democracy but we are also an indisciplined democracy.” I think he was referring to our bad habit of not putting our house in order till things don’t get completely out of hand. This propensity is shown by our...
More »From Plate to Plough: Raising Farmers’ income by 2022 -Ashok Gulati & Shweta Saini
-The Indian Express The picture is completed by the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (crop insurance) and e-market platform that he is going to launch on April 14. For the last two months, the Narendra Modi government seems to have gone into an overdrive to appease Farmers. Several Farmer rallies have been organised and the common theme has been the PM’s “dream” to double the incomes of Farmers by 2022. According to...
More »Waterless in Marathwada: Farm crisis is extra hard on women -Kavitha Iyer
-The Indian Express In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-total crop failure goes into a tailspin. Beed/ Osmanabad: About 65 kilometres from the cracked earth that was once their source of income, Mandakini Mujmule, in her forties, and her daughter Anita, 21, have spent 16 days in Beed city’s government hospital. Mandakini has...
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