Farmer Crisis

How Bad Is Maharashtra Farmer Crisis? 8 Suicides Every Day For 4 Years

India News | Reported by Sohit Mishra, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Sunday June 23, 2019

As many as 12,021 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra from 2015 to 2018 for reasons that included bank loans and crop failure, averaging eight deaths a day. This number is over double that of the preceding four-year period from January 2011 to December 2014, when 6,268 farmers killed themselves.

Over 51,000 Farmers Get 21 Crore Drought Assistance In Maharashtra

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday May 20, 2019

More than 51,000 farmers in Palghar district of Maharashtra have been provided drought assistance worth Rs 21.09 crore, an official said on Monday.

General Election 2019: "PM Sleeps 3 Hours, So Debate Me On Corruption": Rahul Gandhi To Ravish

India News | Edited by Swati Bhasin | Saturday May 11, 2019

Rahul Gandhi today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should debate him on issues such as corruption, notes ban, Goods and Services Tax and farmer crisis, given that the PM "works very hard and sleeps for only three hours".

"Anybody Is Better Than Narendra Modi Because...": Chandrababu Naidu

India News | Reuters | Wednesday February 6, 2019

An alliance of regional parties is working on a combined economic plan, one of its leaders said, in the latest sign that Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces an increasingly united opposition in the upcoming general elections.

Centre Has No Farmer Suicide Data Since 2016, Minister Told Parliament

India News | Reported by Himanshu Shekhar Mishra, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Thursday December 20, 2018

The government has no data on farmer suicides in the last three years, the agriculture minister has said in parliament at a time a farm crisis over debts and poor crop prices has hit several states.

"Not Loan Waivers": Raghuram Rajan On What Will Solve Farm Distress

India News | Written by Alisha Sachdeva | Friday December 14, 2018

The election season, almost always, is flavoured with populist promises. To address rural distress, which is a top election issue this time, repetitive sops such as farm loan waivers and increased MSPs have been promised by both of the country's national parties.

In Maharashtra, Opposition Questions 'Loan Waiver' Given To Minister

India News | Written by Saurabh Gupta | Saturday March 31, 2018

While Maharashtra has made headlines in recent times for its farmers having to go to unprecedented lengths to seek loan waivers from the government, it seems to be a different story for ministers. The opposition has alleged that Maharashtra's Labour Welfare Minister Sambhaji Nilangekar Patil has managed to get relief from a bank that essentially am...

Rahul Gandhi To Address Farmers' Rally In Rajasthan's Banswara Tomorrow

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday July 18, 2017

Seeking to corner the BJP over the agrarian crisis in Rajasthan, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to address a farmers' rally at Banswara in the state tomorrow.

Opinion: Modi's Maun Vrat On Farmers' Crisis Says Much

Opinion | Mani Shankar Aiyar | Tuesday June 20, 2017

We need nothing less than a revolution in the Indian political mind-set that will respond as we used to do in the four decades from Nehru to Rajiv: "Everything can wait, but not agriculture". We are stoking the death of our democracy by failing to do so.

Congress Dubs Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan's Fast As 'Drama'

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday June 12, 2017

The Congress today said Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should have met the families of those killed in Mandsaur police firing instead of resorting to the "drama" of going on a "seven-star fast".

Telangana's Tomato Overkill: Rs 5 A Kilo, Farmers Desperate

Telangana News | Written by Uma Sudhir | Thursday September 1, 2016

At 3 pm on what would ordinarily have been a school day, teenagers Mahesh and Kavitha are busy at work on their parents' small farm in Telangana. The children spend at least six hours picking tomatoes because the family is broke.

Rahul Gandhi Frustrated, Telling Lies: BJP

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday February 19, 2016

BJP today accused Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi of telling "lies" after he attacked the government over the issues of price rise and farmers and claimed that the Narendra Modi government has provided complete protection to peasants.

Unseasonal Rains Damaged Rabi Crops Worth Rs 20,000 Crore: Report

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 27, 2015

Farmers have lost more than 100 lakh tonnes of Rabi crops, valued over Rs 20,000 crore, due to unseasonal rainfall and hailstorm in February-April this year, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said in a report.

Opinion: Newsroom: When Nana Patekar Became a Real Life Hero

Opinion | Sonia Singh | Friday September 11, 2015

How do we make the stories of Marathwada relevant in Mumbai's Pali Hill drawing rooms or even in Chennai and Bengaluru?

Former PM Deve Gowda to Launch Hunger Strike on Monday Over Farmers' Crisis

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday July 25, 2015

Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda will launch a hunger strike here from Monday to highlight the problems being faced by farmers, amid rising numbers of suicides by them, including in his home state Karnataka.