Maharashtra Farmers

Maharashtra Government Announces Sops For Farmers In Maiden Budget

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday March 6, 2020

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday announce done-time settlement scheme for farmers whose debt is more than Rs 2 lakh in the state budget for 2020-21.

Maharashtra Farmer Ends Life On Day Son Recites Poem Against Suicide

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday February 29, 2020

A 35-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Ahmednagar's Pathardi tehsil on Thursday evening, hours after his son read out a poem in school asking farmers not to commit suicide due to agricultural distress, police said.

Debt-Free Farmer Invites Uddhav Thackeray For Daughter's Marriage

India News | ANI | Tuesday February 25, 2020

Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar got an invitation from a farmer to attend his daughter's wedding after his loan was waived off.

Maharashtra Farmers Whose Loan Exceeds Rs 2 Lakh Ineligible For Waiver

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday December 28, 2019

Farmers whose crop loan, taken between April 2015 and March 2019, is more than Rs two lakh,will not be eligible for the loan waiver scheme announced by the Uddhav Thackeray-led 'Maha Vikas Aghadi' government in Maharashtra last week.

BJP, Sena MLAs Scuffle Over Aid To Maharashtra Famers, Assembly Adjourned

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday December 17, 2019

The Maharashtra Assembly witnessed ruckus on Tuesday as the members of opposition BJP and the ruling Shiv Sena indulged in a scuffle and charged at each other, forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House.

Maharashtra Approves Rs 500 Per Quintal Subsidy For Paddy Farmers

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday December 11, 2019

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has approved a proposal to give a subsidy of Rs 500 per quintal (100 kg) to paddy cultivators.

Paddy Stacks Set Ablaze In Maharashtra, Farmers Lose Rs 63 Lakh: Police

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday November 30, 2019

Unidentified people set on fire paddy stacks of 13 farmers on an area of 29 hectares in Maoist-hit Deori tehsil of Maharashtra's Gondia district, police said on Saturday.

Maharashtra Farmer Kills Self, Body Remains Hanging From Tree For 6 Days

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday November 19, 2019

A 62-year-old tribal farmer allegedly committed suicide by hanging from a tree in Maharashtra's Akola district, police said.

BJP "Disappointed" Maharashtra Farmers With "Meagre" Relief: Shiv Sena

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday November 18, 2019

The Shiv Sena on Monday took a swipe at its one-time ally, the BJP, over the "paltry" financial assistance announced by Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to the farmers affected by unseasonal rains.

Maharashtra Farmers "Should Not Be Pushed": Sena To Government On Impasse

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday November 4, 2019

The Shiv Sena on Monday said the intricacies of government formation in Maharashtra should not push rain-hit farmers towards existential crisis and demanded that they be provided relief package of about Rs 30,000 crore.

BJP, Sena Must Come Together To Give Maharashtra Farmers Aid: Ajit Pawar

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday November 3, 2019

The BJP and Shiv Sena should come together and form government to provide relief to farmers hit by untimely rains, NCP leader Ajit Pawar said on Saturday even as he stressed his party will sit in the opposition.

Maharashtra Farmers Awaiting Immediate Aid, Not New Government: Sena

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 1, 2019

Amid standoff with ally BJP over formation of the next government in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena on Friday demanded immediate relief for farmers affected by unseasonal rains in parts of the state.

Maharashtra Election 2019: Farmer Allegedly Hangs Himself From Tree Over 2 Lakhs Loan In Maharashtra

India News | Reported by Sunil Singh, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Sunday October 13, 2019

A farmer in Buldhana district of Maharashtra allegedly committed suicide this morning over outstanding loans worth Rs 2 lakhs.

Months After Father's Suicide, Maharashtra Farmer Allegedly Hangs Self

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday August 26, 2019

A 53-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide by hanging on Saturday night in Katol in Maharashtra's Nagpur district, police said.

Maharashtra Farmer Allegedly Kills Self Over Weak Monsoon, Indebtedness

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday July 23, 2019

A 45-year-old farmer from parched Latur district of Maharashtra allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at his farm apparently due to indebtedness and dry spell, police said on Tuesday.