-Scroll.in While Punjab looks to rescue its cotton Farmers, a dozen suicides are reported from MP due the failure of a crop that once brought unprecedented prosperity to its farming community. Hailed three decades ago as a miracle crop that brought about unprecedented prosperity to millions of Madhya Pradesh Farmers, soyabean has turned into a fatal cause of agrarian distress in the state. Over a dozen debt-ridden Farmers have either committed suicide...
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MP loan scam: Interest subsidy for 1.77 lakh ‘ghost’ Farmers swindled -Amarjeet Singh
-The Times of India BHOPAL: At a time when suicides by Farmers in Madhya Pradesh following scanty rain and poor yield have brought back focus on their plight, allegedly more than 1.77 lakh ghost Farmers benefitted from interest subsidies on their loans. Putting a question mark on the much hyped 0% interest farm loan scheme of the state government, a series of RTI queries by TOI revealed that between 2007-08 and 2012-13,...
More »In Odisha, no dal for the dalma -Jayashree Nandi
-The Times of India BATAGUDA (Odisha): Women and men working on the hillsides is a common sight when travelling through Odisha's Kandhamal district. All day, they crouch in the scorching sun, using crude tools to break large rocks into little stones. It takes each person several days to fill a 5ft-tall container with enough stones to earn about Rs 900. Most tribal women do this backbreaking work but with hardly any proteins...
More »Kerala SHG women show the way -R Vimal Kumar
-The Hindu Tirupur (Tamil Nadu): A group of self-help group women from Kerala is showing the way in mechanised paddy transplantation which was now initiated for the first time in a commercial way in Tirupur district this season. Expertise of members of Haritha Vanitha Labour Bank, a women self-help group at Kollangode in Palakkad district, who were trained in mechanised paddy transplantation and harvest techniques by the Kerala Government, are called...
More »No food for cultivators -Devinder Sharma
-DNA When it comes to Farmers, the government has precious little to offer The monsoon season is over. With 14 per cent shortfall in the amount of rains, and with nearly 39 per cent of the cropped area in the country hit by a crippling drought, I was expecting the Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan to announce a series of monetary benefits and exemptions in credit repayments for Farmers....
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