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Chakri Bai of Arjunnayak hamlet near Zaheerabad in Telangana cannot help teasing the assembled crowd which has travelled 120 kilometres from Hyderabad. “You people are not able to withstand this mild sun even for a while, you have already become shrivelled. But barring a two-hour break during the day, we women farmers are in the field from dawn to dusk. We can withstand it because of the food we eat. You people are like broiler chicken, we are like country chicken,” said Bai.

Outlook

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today pitched for tax incentives to fast-growing states and stressed on transfer of various subjects from the Centre to the states.

Business Standard

Flagging the agrarian crisis gripping the country, Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Sunday urged the Central government to bear 50 per cent of the farm loans the state government plans to waive soon.

The Economic Times

Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today requested the Central government for 50 per cent support to his government’s farm loan waiver scheme.

The Free Press Journal

Continuing his latest drive to directly connect with the beneficiaries of the government’s flagship programmes, Prime Minister Modi has fixed a date with India’s farmers on Wednesday from 9.30 am interact on what ails agriculture.

The Hindu

It is a case of surfeit supply with few takers. The agriculture department in this district has found that many people were not keen on buying coarse variety rice supplied through the government-run fair price shops. Add to that abundant supply every year, its storage was becoming a major challenge for the government with limited godowns in the district. So, the agriculture department has stopped supply of coarse variety paddy seeds in spite of farmers’ uproar.

The Hindu

Speakers at the eighth annual general body meeting of Sri Satya Sai Farmers’ Mutually Aided Cooperative Society of Penukonda mandal, held at Makkajipalle thanda, called upon groundnut growers to inculcate collective responsibility and take the prospects of their 14,000 member society to the global level, ushering in big economic boom.

The New Indian Express

Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to constitute a committee of the Union Government and some chief ministers to draw up a blueprint of a national debt waiver scheme for farmers in consultation with states.