-TheQuint.in After interest payments, food subsidies, fertiliser subsidy will be third largest single-budget govt expenditure. With the Government seeking an additional appropriation of Rs 1.09 crore through the first supplementary in the current session, India’s fertiliser subsidy bill is set to exceed Rs 2.37 lakh crore this fiscal 2022-23. Govt Expenditures Going Big on Fertiliser Subsidies Excluding interest, pensions, and mandatory transfers to state governments, the revised budgetary discretionary expenditure is likely to be...

-Deccan Herald Since the Apple agitation 30 years ago, apple growers have hardly hit the streets Kotkhai/Theog/Fagu: In 1990, Himachal Pradesh saw one of the fiercest agitations by apple growers. The demand by the protestors from the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government headed by Shanta Kumar was to fix a minimum support price for the apple crop. In a gathering on July 22 that year in Kotgarh, where hundreds of protestors...

-The Hindu The increasing cost of production and the increase in GST on cartons has triggered protests in Himachal Pradesh Apple growers in Himachal Pradesh are out on the streets some three decades after their last big agitation. The protests are not surprising; their anger has been simmering for a while. To understand the present crisis, it is crucial to understand the developments of the last few decades. In the 1970s and 1980s,...

-The New Indian Express First, existing studies have analysed the intensity of farmer suicides in isolation, i.e. without comparing farmer suicides with those by other professionals. Farmer suicides have always been a highly debated issue in the public discourse on agriculture sector performance in India. According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, 3,58,164 people engaged in the farming profession have committed suicide in India from 1995 to 2019. Though these numbers...

-The Tribune Farmers are use homemade alternatives for cultivation;  state government records say 146,438 farmers, including 14,000 apple growers, in the hill state are doing natural farming either partially or fully, over 8,268 hectares Shimla: Amid the widespread shortage of fertilisers in the ongoing planting season in several states largely owing to spiking international prices, farmers in Himachal Pradesh are using homemade alternatives for cultivation that are not only safer for the...