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Give Rs 2,500 per acre to Haryana farmers for not burning stubble: Hooda

Burning of crop residue by farmers in Haryana and Punjab is being stated to be one of the major reasons behind the severe pollution levels in Delhi-NCR

Govt caught in no man's land as foodgrain mountains keep growing taller

The stock burden along with inadequate Budget allocations for the food subsidy and the Centre's zeal to check the fiscal deficit has worsened FCI's financial position

FM Sitharaman advises farmers to produce oilseeds, which are high in demand

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday urged farmers to produce oilseeds in place of other crops as India particularly imports edible oil and palm oil."We are telling farmers which crops will give them a better price in the area. We are also telling them what all crops can be irrigated or cannot be irrigated on the rain-fed land," she said while addressing the sixth World Congress on Rural & Agriculture Finance in New Delhi."The support price may be given for other things but please do produce oilseeds because they have a great demand in India. Edible oil consumption is also a matter of great concern, as we still import quite a lot quantity particularly palm oil," she said.The Union Minister also requested National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Chairman Dr Harsh Kumar Bhanwala to visit Jammu and Kashmir to ensure that the farmers get the correct price of their produce in the next season."You are aware that recently we used NAFED to procure apples ...

Reduce cost, restore profitability

It is imperative to reorient fertiliser policies to facilitate development of innovative and situation-specific products

Modi govt plans a massive data bank to directly connect with 115 mn farmers

With the help of this database and use of technology, life of the small and marginal farmers of the country would witness a sea change

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