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News wrap: Centre to review wheat import dutyedit
Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that the Centre will ensure that wheat prices do not crash this season (starts by mid-March) during arrivals. All necessary actions to ensure the payment of Minimum Support Price to farmers will be taken, he said. The import duty of 10 per cent on wheat was scrapped recently due to low domestic availability. According to a press release from the Agriculture Ministry, 40 lakh tonnes have been imported in the last two months.
Farmers to get input subsidy in their bank accounts soonedit
Addressing a district-level drought relief review meeting here on Sunday, he said the district administration was on the verge of finishing collation of bank account details of farmers, following which the money will be transferred. The State government had decided to release Rs 2,247 crore to provide immediate relief to the farmers even though the Central government was yet to release any fund to Tamil Nadu for the drought.
Farmers asked to respect nature for good yieldedit
Connect with nature and don’t try to meddle with it. It will never ditch you,” said M.C.V. Prasad, a progressive who received an award from the President of India The practitioner of natural farming from Madanapalle in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh was here on Sunday to create awareness among the farmers on natural farming.
Farmer achieves ‘mission impossible’edit
His efforts have resulted in lustrous harvest which is more than that of the crops raised applying fertilisers. Ramdas is getting a yield of three or four quintals of cucumbers on alternate days and sells them at Rs 4000. Water melon would be ready for harvesting in another 15 days. Ramdas is hopeful of earning Rs 2 lakh during the current season, if everything goes well.
Why Punjab should not provide free power; state can reward farmers via cashedit
Who will form the next government in Punjab next month is currently sealed in the ballot boxes. In the mean time there are reports that the Election Commission has written to the home minister reinforcing its demand to make electoral bribery a cognisable offence. But what about the assurances made in election manifestos which promise moon before election? Can that not be checked by the Election Commission?
From Plate to Plough: It’s not about loan waiversedit
THE ANSWER TO who will form the next government in Punjab is currently sealed in the ballot boxes. Meanwhile, there are reports that the Election Commission has written to the home minister, reinforcing its demand to make electoral bribery a cognisable offence. If a loan waiver was the solution to the problems of the peasantry, there should not have been any farm distress after 2008-09. But those problems still persist, simply because their answers lie somewhere else.