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Centre punishing AAP govt for supporting farmers' agitation: Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday alleged that the BJP-led Centre was trying topunish his government for supporting the farmers' agitation

Farmers' stir: Rakesh Tikait to campaign against farm laws in Gujarat

Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday kicked off his two-day tour of Gujarat, during which he will campaign against the three Central farm laws

Odisha govt transfers Rs 693.94 crore to bank accounts of 3.4 mn farmers

The Odisha Government transferred Rs 693.94 crore to the bank accounts of 3.4 million farmers under its flagship Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme

Agri Bills: Farmers to march towards Parliament in May, says AIKS leader

The AIKS General Secretary said that the farmers' march will be peaceful

Govts should think beyond loan waivers, says VP Venkaiah Naidu

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday underlined the need for "much-needed" reforms in agriculture sector to improve the status of farmers and asked the governments to think beyond loan waivers

Agri sector in need of urgent reform, modernisation: Modi at TN poll rally

PM Modi invoked Tamil classic 'Thirukkural' and said one common theme in it was respect for farmers

Bharat Bandh had 'almost zero impact' on rail services, says Railways

Samkyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) called for the bandh from 6 am to 6 pm to mark four months of the farmers' agitation at Delhi's three borders

BJP releases West Bengal poll manifesto, promises 33% reservation for women

In the manifesto, the party promised a Sonar Bangla fund worth Rs 11,000 crore to promote art, literature and other such sectors, and a Tagore Prize on the lines of the Nobel Prize

Pak farmers hold tractor rally against price hike in essential commodities

The Pakistani farmer association, Kissan Ittehad, on Friday took to the streets on their tractors to protest the hike in prices of electricity, fertilisers, agricultural products, and diesel

'Anti-national' forces not allowing farmers' protest to end, says RSS

The farmers have been staging protests for over 100 days on the borders of Delhi against the three contentious farms laws

The angry Vishwaguru

The world has expectations from India and complains when those aren't met. If global praise is acceptable to Modi govt, why the resentment and rejection over criticism?

Men at Delhi's border, women take charge of Punjab's farmlands

With harvest season round the corner and farm protests continuing, their responsibilities have multiplied

Sops, promises flow as states look to pacify disgruntled farmers

On offer: Separate agri Budgets, free water, hike in direct transfers and a whole lot more

AAP will work for farmers if it wins UP panchayat polls: Sanjay Singh

AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Wednesday said his party would work for the welfare of farmers if it wins the upcoming panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh. Singh, the Uttar Pradesh unit in-charge of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said this during a meeting with party members in Noida where he reviewed preparations for the elections. During the meeting, Singh also discussed selection of candidates for these elections, AAP's Gautam Buddh Nagar spokesperson Sanjeev Nigam said in a statement. Aam Aadmi Party's members would implement the 'Delhi Model' of development in villages of Uttar Pradesh after winning panchayat elections, Singh was quoted as saying in the statement. A system will be made in which farmers, especially those in western UP, will get their payment of sugarcane transferred in their bank accounts even before they could reach back their home after dumping their produce in mills, the Rajya Sabha MP added. Delay in payment of sugarcane to farmers and minimum support price of the cro

Centre's move on direct payment to farmers 'another provocation': Punjab CM

Amarinder Singh on Monday dubbed the Centre's move on direct payment to farmers for crop procurement as "another provocation", saying it will further aggravate the current crisis over the farm laws

BJP on the backfoot in western Uttar Pradesh amid farmers' protests

Despite the farm laws, the BJP hopes to turn the situation in its favour in western UP

Govt willing to talk to farmers, says Muzaffarnagar BJP MP Sanjeev Balyan

After facing stiff resistance in his hometown, Muzaffarnagar, Balyan talks to Nitin Kumar about the problems in hand and what the government is doing about them

Focused approach

Targeting specific products will help the agri sector

PM Modi says farmers should get more avenues to sell their harvest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday emphasised on farmers getting more avenues to sell crops and said a food processing revolution was needed in the country for value addition to farm produce and to realise better prices. Addressing a webinar on effective implementation of Budget provisions regarding the Agriculture Ministry, he underlined the need for increased participation of private players in the farm sector, including in research and development (R&D) work. Without making any direct reference to the three new farm reform laws or to the three-month-old agitation by farmers, Modi said there is a need for expanding options for the country's farming community to sell agri produce. "Today the need of the hour is that farmers of the country get more and more options to sell their produce," he said. Restrictions had a negative impact on the sector, he added. While the Modi government says the three laws give farmers alternate options to sell their produce, thousands of farmers .

GDP data: Farm sector maintains strong growth; full year might see a blip

While several sectors returned to growth in Q3 , agriculture was all along different. GVA in last fiscal year at constant prices was 4.3 per cent.