Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Pulses MSP hike benefits 6%edit
Amid the farmers’ unrest that is threatening to damage the image of the Modi government, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh appealed to the pesticide and seed industry to bring down retail prices.
Budget
India faces $49.1 bn farm-loan waivers: 16 times the budget for rural roadsedit
These investments, as agricultural economist M S Swaminathan pointed out in his tweet, require capital expenditure, which may now be hit by the recent decisions to waive farm loans. States are unlikely to get help from the Centre this time, as finance minister Arun Jaitley indicated on June 13, 2017.