-PTI Lucknow: With 55 districts in Uttar Pradesh hit by untimely rains and hailstorm, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has declared a calamity and has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking Rs 1,000 crores to immediately provide relief to Farmers. The chief minister reviewed the prevailing situation yesterday and had said that a financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh from the chief minister's fund will be provided to Farmers who faced an...
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Wheat procurement will be lower this year -Gargi Parsai
-The Hindu The MSP is fixed for the Fair Average Quality of grain that is purchased by the FCI and its agencies. There is a growing concern in official circles about untimely rain and hail in the northern parts of the country hitting wheat procurement for the Public Distribution System by an estimated three million tonnes this year. This may not augur well for a country that is committed to providing cheap...
More »Millions of Indian Farmers Hit by Spell of Unseasonable Rains -Anjana Pasricha
-Voice of America NEW DELHI: Unseasonable rains and hailstorms have damaged wide swathes of crops in India, one of the world’s biggest producers of commodities such as wheat. The government has promised to enhance compensation for millions of Farmers, who are staring at huge losses. Rains lashed much of India through March -- normally the time when dry weather and rising temperatures ripen the wheat crop, making it ready to harvest. Besides wheat,...
More »Death by distress: Nothing official about it -Amit Bhattacharya
-The Times of India As successive spells of freak rains in March-April ravaged fields across Uttar Pradesh, a spate of Farmer deaths were reported. Most of these were ascribed to suicide or trauma, as crop losses mounted and the state appeared to be reeling under a fresh agrarian crisis. The UP government moved to provide relief, but on Farmer deaths, it saw things a little differently. "There is no conclusive proof, yet,...
More »Tribal Farmers on ‘Jal Satyagraha’ in Gogalgaon for compensation -Bagish Jha
-The Times of India INDORE: To protest against the increase in height of Omkareshwar dam, tribals Farmers of Gogalgoan of Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh are once again on 'Jal Satyagraha' in their filed which have been flooded due to increase in water level of dam. They are in knee deep water carrying placards that called for government to give them land or sufficient compensation. In the year 2012 Farmers had organised...
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