Farmer S Income Plan

The government’s plan to build digital databases of farmers to boost their incomes has raised concerns about privacy and the exclusion of poor farmers and those without land titles. AgriStack will be piloted by Microsoft in 100 villages. Each farmer will have a unique digital identification that contains personal details, information about the la...

The Delhi-Jaipur highway has been partially opened after a three-hour closure that started as farmers began a tractor march from Shahjahanpur on the Rajasthan-Haryana border as part of their escalating 18-day protest against the Centre's contentious farm laws. A highway was opened as farmers removed blockade from the Delhi-Noida border at Chilla. T...

Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the country needs to replicate "zero budget farming" as part of the government's plan to help farmers double their income. In her speech presenting the Union budget in parliament, the minister underscored the need to "go back to the basics, which will help double farmers' income".

Massive farm-support plans in the United States and India are being scrutinised by other World Trade Organization members, questions submitted to the WTO's quarterly agriculture committee meeting showed on Monday.

The Bahraich district, just 130 kilometres from Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow, but among India's poorest and most backward district as per Niti Aayog data, is where some of the beneficiaries of the huge Rs 75,000 crore government plan to top up farmer incomes stay. So just how far will Rs 6,000 take them?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a swipe at the Opposition for criticising his government's farmers' income plan, saying people sitting in air-conditioned rooms in Delhi do not know the importance of Rs 6000 for a poor farmer living in distant and difficult areas.

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his promise of doubling farmers' income in five years, his predecessor Dr Manmohan Singh said it would end up just being another election jumla (election rhetoric) as the government had no concrete plan to achieve the target

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley began his Budget speech today with a strong defence of the notes ban, promising that its impact on the economy would not spill over to the next year. He then presented a plan to cushion sections that have been worst hit by demonetisation, pledging to spend more on the rural poor, doubling income of farmers and cutting ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday outlined plans to double the income of struggling farmers in the next five years, by spending 359 billion rupees on the country's vast agriculture sector.

The government’s plan to build digital databases of farmers to boost their incomes has raised concerns about privacy and the exclusion of poor farmers and those without land titles. AgriStack will be piloted by Microsoft in 100 villages. Each farmer will have a unique digital identification that contains personal details, information about the la...

The Delhi-Jaipur highway has been partially opened after a three-hour closure that started as farmers began a tractor march from Shahjahanpur on the Rajasthan-Haryana border as part of their escalating 18-day protest against the Centre's contentious farm laws. A highway was opened as farmers removed blockade from the Delhi-Noida border at Chilla. T...

Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the country needs to replicate "zero budget farming" as part of the government's plan to help farmers double their income. In her speech presenting the Union budget in parliament, the minister underscored the need to "go back to the basics, which will help double farmers' income".

Massive farm-support plans in the United States and India are being scrutinised by other World Trade Organization members, questions submitted to the WTO's quarterly agriculture committee meeting showed on Monday.

The Bahraich district, just 130 kilometres from Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow, but among India's poorest and most backward district as per Niti Aayog data, is where some of the beneficiaries of the huge Rs 75,000 crore government plan to top up farmer incomes stay. So just how far will Rs 6,000 take them?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a swipe at the Opposition for criticising his government's farmers' income plan, saying people sitting in air-conditioned rooms in Delhi do not know the importance of Rs 6000 for a poor farmer living in distant and difficult areas.

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his promise of doubling farmers' income in five years, his predecessor Dr Manmohan Singh said it would end up just being another election jumla (election rhetoric) as the government had no concrete plan to achieve the target

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley began his Budget speech today with a strong defence of the notes ban, promising that its impact on the economy would not spill over to the next year. He then presented a plan to cushion sections that have been worst hit by demonetisation, pledging to spend more on the rural poor, doubling income of farmers and cutting ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday outlined plans to double the income of struggling farmers in the next five years, by spending 359 billion rupees on the country's vast agriculture sector.