-The Indian Express Demonetisation, coupled with daily limits on cash transactions and fear of being tracked by revenue authorities post the Goods and Services Tax regime, have made traders less inclined to purchasing and stocking up produce during the harvest season. The defining feature of Indian agriculture in the last five years — much of it under the Narendra Modi government’s tenure — has been low prices for farm produce. The accompanying...
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Right to Food Campaign criticizes Jharkhand Government's move to reduce the number of eggs in School Midday Meals
-Press release by Right to Food Campaign dated 16th January, 2019 It is shocking to learn that Jharkhand Government has decided to reduce the number of weekly eggs in school midday meals from three to two. Earlier, the government allotted Rs 4 per egg. With increase in price of eggs, it has revised the allotment to Rs 6 per egg. But instead of increasing the total budget commensurately with the inflation...
More »RTI: Pvt firms make a killing from crop insurance scheme -Vishav Bharti
-The Tribune Pocket more than Rs 8,000 cr in two years; Rs 11 cr a day on average Chandigarh: Rs 11 crore in a day! That was the average of profit of the private insurance companies from Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in the past two financial years. There were 18 companies that got contracts under the crop insurance scheme. Out of them just five are in public and 13 in the private...
More »Centre asks NDDB to estimate India's milk demand -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The country does not know how much milk is needed despite its growth having exceeded targets The Union government has asked the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to conduct a study to assess the true scale of demand for milk in India. “We have asked NDDB to estimate the present demand for milk and milk products and its forecast in India, as per the National Dairy Plan Phase I,” Union...
More »India's Cow Crisis Part 5: Penalty for abandoning cattle final nail in coffin -Jitendra
-Down to Earth The increasing trend of legal penalty for abandonment will backfire Bruised by anti-cow slaughter laws and widespread vigilantism, farmers simply don’t want cows around. This means tactical abandoning, with decreasing options to trade unproductive cattle. But several states, including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, have formed laws to penalise such abandonment too. Stray cattle has become a menace in villages as well as towns in several areas, to...
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