-The Times of India NAGPUR: The state cabinet has given a go ahead for distribution of over 7540 solar powered agricultural pumps in the state. It will be on a pilot basis under a Central scheme. State cabinet on Tuesday decided to allocate Rs 22.25 crore for the project estimated to cost Rs 445 crore. The Union government has decided to give a big push to solar energy and fixed a target...
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Centre tests nerves on land law battle -Radhika Ramaseshan
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Centre has tabled a land acquisition bill with provisions identical to that of a controversial ordinance, taking a calculated gamble and testing the nerves of the Opposition that is hoping to build a campaign anchored on Farmers. Tabled in the Lok Sabha this morning, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill is based entirely on the ordinance the Union cabinet...
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-The Financial Express Prime minister Narendra Modi has done well to launch a soil health card scheme, from Suratgarh in Rajasthan, which is slated to cover 14 crore Farmers in the next three years. Soil health cards are an important component of agriculture reform since they help impress upon the farmer the damage done to the soil by excess use of the heavily-subsidised urea in comparison with other fertilisers. While the...
More »Fighting adversity, innovatively! -KM Dayashankar
-The Hindu KARIMNAGAR (Telengana): Fighting adversities is part of human survival and villagers of the interior Veernapalli and other villages in Yellareddypet mandal have been doing that for quite some time. Saving their standing crops from wild animals has become their top priority what with the decreased area of cultivation due to water shortage. They cannot afford technological support, but that has not deterred them from devising their own plan to keep...
More »Farmer deaths choking exchequer, UP eyes insurance firms to ease ‘burden’ -Mohd Faisal Fareed
-The Indian Express Lucknow: Having spent over Rs 1,100 crore from the state exchequer in the last two years to pay compensation to the kin of Farmers who have committed suicide, the state government has now decided to rope in private insurance companies to streamline the scheme and share the burden. Till now, the state revenue department was paying Rs 5 lakh to the kin of each farmer who died of unnatural...
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