Free Press Journal

The state government has been tom-tomming its ‘kisan hiteshi’ (pro-farmer) policies and repeating ad nauseam that it is committed to making agriculture profitable and to doubling the income of the farmers over the next five years. However, its actions do not seem to match its words.

The Times of India

Addressing the agitating party workers here at Kranti Chowk, Namdeoroa Pawar city district president of Congress said that the government has been turning blind eye towards the burning issues of the farmers. “It is visible from the incident that took place in Mantralaya.

The Indian Express

But here we focus on “sabka saath, sabka vikas”, which we feel cannot be achieved unless agriculture is revved up in the state. Agriculture employs the largest proportion (47 per cent) of the workforce (in 2015-16, as per the Labour Bureau) in UP, and its growth rate has been just 2.5 per cent per annum during 2000-01 to 2014-15. This growth is lower than the all-India growth rate of agri-GDP of 2.9 per cent during the same period.

Pune Mirror

The idea of exporting manpower for the agriculture sector is not as bizarre as it sounds because growing vegetables requires careful husbanding of plants, almost on a par with raising children. And this is when we urban folks have a tiny vegetable garden and not the market garden required for business.