The Economic Times

The Azadpur mandi, India’s largest wholesale market for agriculture produce with an annual turnover of more than Rs 150 crore, is not on the electronic National Agriculture Market (eNAM), because the local government has yet to amend rules to facilitate that, food ministry officials said. Six other mandis in the national capital are also not on the online trading platform, which aims to enhance farmers’ income, promote transparent and competitive trading and remove restrictions on movement of ag ..

The Statesman

Gandhi toured the country for two-and-a-half years to collect information and interact with marginal and small farmers to discover why they had got into indebtedness and were unable to enjoy the fruits of development. His book, he prefaces, is a “tribute to India’s marginal farmer whose daily toil is as much an act of defiance as an article of faith”.

DNA

It is a perfect mix of government plans and corporate execution, both teaming up to demonstrate how the vision of doubling farmer incomes by 2022 could become a reality.

Financial Express

The flavour of the season on the farm front is loan waivers! Farmers’ leaders are asking for it and those looking for power are ready to oblige. Newly elected chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan all have announced loan waivers within their promised time of 10 days. It may cost the state exchequers more than Rs 50,000 crore. The Congress president has also challenged the prime minister that he will not let him sleep unless loans of all farmers are waived off. He also scores a brownie point by saying if the government can “waive off” Rs 3.5 lakh crore for 15 business families, why not for millions of farmers.