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Analysis: Punjab's Farmers Dig Deeper As Groundwater Levels Keep Falling
Decades of continuous water extraction, cheap electricity, and policy inaction have pushed the state's groundwater levels past their tipping point.
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Sugar Mills Yet To Clear Rs 2,400 Crore Pending Dues To Cane Growers: Government Official
Total dues that mills were to pay till February was Rs 87,000 crore for 2018-19 and Rs 85,000 crore for 2017-18 sugar season.
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Budget 2019: Fiscal Expansion Could Help Solve India’s Agrarian Crisis, Says Ficci’s Somany
The government can afford to breach the fiscal deficit target by 0.1-0.2 percent to access additional funds, says Sandeep Somany.
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Small Successes Are Helping Turn Parched Beed Drought-Resilient
Gaal Mukta Dharan, Gaal Yukta Shivar scheme aims to ensure there is enough water for irrigation even if monsoon rains are uneven.
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Parched Beed Is Caught In A Vicious Cycle Of Drought And Unemployment
A farmer in drought-hit Beed is paying Rs 3,000 a day for water tankers to save his pomegranate crop.
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Elections 2019: Farm Crisis Immense, Don’t Claim To Have Fixed Everything, Says Nitin Gadkari
The crisis in India’s agriculture sector is of a magnitude that can’t be fixed in five years, says Nitin Gadkari.
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Farm Sector Requires More Than Just Money From Budget 2019, Say Experts
There are a few larger problems that the budget must address to mitigate the agricultural crisis -- and win over farmers.
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Some Fiscal Space Available For Income Transfer To Farmers, Says Neelkanth Mishra
India has the fiscal space to consider direct income transfers as the most cost-efficient way to address weak farm growth.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Calls For All Round Development Of Agriculture
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today emphasised the need for all round development of agriculture and its allied sector to increase the income of farmers.
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Maharashtra Government To Give Free Seeds To Tenant Farmers, Reassures On MSP
Addressing the issue of agricultural distress widespread in the state, the government of Maharashtra is planning to supply free seeds and pesticides free of cost to small and marginal farmers to keep cost effective farming alive in the state.
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In Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur, Farmers Say Lack of Crop Insurance for Cotton Led To One Suicide
Days after a cotton farmer in Tamil Nadu killed himself, allegedly because last Friday's unseasonal rains destroyed his entire crop, the farmer's father says his son wouldn't have taken such an extreme step if the state government had insured his cotton crop instead of refusing to do so.
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'Farmers Who Commit Suicide Are Cowards': Haryana Minister OP Dhankar Justifies Shocker
At a time when farmer suicides have caught national attention, a minister in Haryana has said that farmers who commit suicide are "cowards" and implied that they don't deserve the government's support.
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In Uttar Pradesh, a Farmer's Crop is Destroyed, Then His Compensation Cheque Bounces
First, Satish Chand, a farmer from Chhata village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, lost his entire wheat crop worth Rs 80,000, because of the unseasonal March rains and hailstorms. Then, to add insult to injury, the meagre Rs. 18,000 compensation cheque he got from the state government, bounced, yesterday, because the revenue officer's bank acc...
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Analysis: Punjab's Farmers Dig Deeper As Groundwater Levels Keep Falling
Decades of continuous water extraction, cheap electricity, and policy inaction have pushed the state's groundwater levels past their tipping point.
-
Sugar Mills Yet To Clear Rs 2,400 Crore Pending Dues To Cane Growers: Government Official
Total dues that mills were to pay till February was Rs 87,000 crore for 2018-19 and Rs 85,000 crore for 2017-18 sugar season.
-
Budget 2019: Fiscal Expansion Could Help Solve India’s Agrarian Crisis, Says Ficci’s Somany
The government can afford to breach the fiscal deficit target by 0.1-0.2 percent to access additional funds, says Sandeep Somany.
-
Small Successes Are Helping Turn Parched Beed Drought-Resilient
Gaal Mukta Dharan, Gaal Yukta Shivar scheme aims to ensure there is enough water for irrigation even if monsoon rains are uneven.
-
Parched Beed Is Caught In A Vicious Cycle Of Drought And Unemployment
A farmer in drought-hit Beed is paying Rs 3,000 a day for water tankers to save his pomegranate crop.
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Elections 2019: Farm Crisis Immense, Don’t Claim To Have Fixed Everything, Says Nitin Gadkari
The crisis in India’s agriculture sector is of a magnitude that can’t be fixed in five years, says Nitin Gadkari.
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Farm Sector Requires More Than Just Money From Budget 2019, Say Experts
There are a few larger problems that the budget must address to mitigate the agricultural crisis -- and win over farmers.
-
Some Fiscal Space Available For Income Transfer To Farmers, Says Neelkanth Mishra
India has the fiscal space to consider direct income transfers as the most cost-efficient way to address weak farm growth.
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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Calls For All Round Development Of Agriculture
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today emphasised the need for all round development of agriculture and its allied sector to increase the income of farmers.
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Maharashtra Government To Give Free Seeds To Tenant Farmers, Reassures On MSP
Addressing the issue of agricultural distress widespread in the state, the government of Maharashtra is planning to supply free seeds and pesticides free of cost to small and marginal farmers to keep cost effective farming alive in the state.
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In Tamil Nadu's Tiruvarur, Farmers Say Lack of Crop Insurance for Cotton Led To One Suicide
Days after a cotton farmer in Tamil Nadu killed himself, allegedly because last Friday's unseasonal rains destroyed his entire crop, the farmer's father says his son wouldn't have taken such an extreme step if the state government had insured his cotton crop instead of refusing to do so.
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'Farmers Who Commit Suicide Are Cowards': Haryana Minister OP Dhankar Justifies Shocker
At a time when farmer suicides have caught national attention, a minister in Haryana has said that farmers who commit suicide are "cowards" and implied that they don't deserve the government's support.
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In Uttar Pradesh, a Farmer's Crop is Destroyed, Then His Compensation Cheque Bounces
First, Satish Chand, a farmer from Chhata village in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura district, lost his entire wheat crop worth Rs 80,000, because of the unseasonal March rains and hailstorms. Then, to add insult to injury, the meagre Rs. 18,000 compensation cheque he got from the state government, bounced, yesterday, because the revenue officer's bank acc...
