Page 64 - Farmers

Rivers too have rights

We must understand that the issue of river flow is really about the politics of power

Explained: Why Indian dairy farmers oppose RCEP trade agreement

Providing market access to New Zealand in particular could wipe out their livelihoods

Why the Centre's PM-KISAN lags states in farmer cash transfer schemes

State schemes such as Telangana's Rythu Bandhu and Odisha's Kalia are working more efficiently than Centre's PM-KISAN

Indian farmers, small businesses will soon travel to woo investors in US

Swadeshi Jagran Manch to lead delegation, will try to make investors understand Indian challenges

Govt to buy apples directly from J&K farmers, transfer money through DBT

The announcement came in the wake of terrorists threatening some apple growers not to sell their produce in the market

73.2% of rural women workers are farmers, but own only 12.8% land holdings

In Maharashtra, 88.46% of rural women are employed by agriculture, the highest in the country

A steady option: Low rain forces farmers in several states to turn to maize

According to latest data from the department of agriculture, till July 25, maize has been sown in around 6.38 million hectares, which is around 136,000 hectares more than the same period last year

Why children of farmers in India are less likely to take up farming

For the first time since Independence, India saw a shift of surplus labour from agriculture to the non-agricultural sectors

Farmers stay away from cotton, prefer other crops due to better incentives

Lower cotton acreage and lower availability at a time when crude oil prices are falling is likely to raise India's consumption of manmade fibre and synthetic yarn

Farmer suicides spiked after UPA's Rs 70k cr loan waiver: Parshottam Rupala

Supreme Court has stated that it will be for the Union Government to determine whether and if so what, course should be adopted for this purpose

Despite high price and demand, farmers not interested in maize

The domestic kharif maize output, which stood at nearly 20 million tonnes in 2017-18, dipped last year to below 19 MT

Cap giveaways

Entitlements without considering future costs not advisable

Winning elections Telangana style: Pay farm landowners, ignore the tillers

The Rythu Bandhu scheme was perhaps the biggest pre-election cash transfer to owners of land in India but it has failed to address issues of those most vulnerable to farm stress-driven suicide

Shekhar Gupta: Why MP's farm boom makes farmers furious

With India's highest farm growth for a decade, Shivraj Singh Chouhan should've been sitting pretty. If he's struggling read the message: Our farm economics and politics are broken

As farmers plan another protest in Delhi, experts call for market reforms

Farmers to protest falling price of farm commodities, many of which are selling almost 20-30% below mandated MSP for kharif 2018

You'll lose if you are anti-farmer, says Swaraj Abhiyan's Yogendra Yadav

The problem is the govt speaks so much about MSP that it has led ordinary people to believe that it must have done something nice on MSP

Investment, not subsidies, will make farming self-sufficient: FM Jaitley

Jaitley said with much lesser subsidies, a self-sufficient farmer would be able to better serve the cause of India's farm sector and the country

Bollworms, genetic revolution failure sting Vidarbha's cotton farmers

Another vital compensation component that fixes responsibility on seed firms for reneging on claims of pest resistance was barely implemented

Ask banks to fast-track crop loan disbursal: Maha CM Fadnavis to Centre

In the letter to Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, he said said it is the peak time for kharif crops and the Centre is required to intervene and help farmers.

Gujarat govt to provide grid-linked solar panels to over 12,000 farmers

The grid-connected solar panels are being provided to farmers under a scheme called Suryashakti Kisan Yojna