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Agriculture Industry
The Budget Should Have Eased Agricultural Bottlenecks and Brought Structural Reformsedit
The income support scheme in the ‘interim budget’ can give ‘interim relief’ to the farmers, but cannot provide a sustainable solution to unfair price related problems in the agricultural sector. The budget statement proposed Rs 6,000 per annum for farmers with less than five acres, under ‘Kisan Samman Nidhi’ (Farmer Honour ...
Farmers term budget disappointing, unjustedit
Ajit Navale, a farmer leader and state general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha, which had organised a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai last year, said that the Centre has lost the last chance to fulfil farmers’ demands and that a budgetary provision had not been made for increasing the income of farmers and creation of purchase centres.
Agriculture minister says wrong policies of Congress causing delay in resolving farm crisisedit
Terming the budget for 2019-20 as historic, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan SinghFriday said it was taking a little longer to resolve farmers. problems due to the wrong policies of the previous Congressgovernments. “Since the past 48 years only slogans were raised for farmer. and poor…only one familygained strength during this period,” the minister told reporters here.
Budget
Budget 2019: Agri distress or voter stress? A tale of useless loan waiversedit
The game is on – Whether Pappu wins or Feku loses at the electoral stakes, the farmer has eternally continued to lose, no matter who or which party comes to power. There was a speculation as to whether it would be an Interim Budget or a Full Budget but with the high stakes involved, the BJP tried its best to ensure that this Budget gives as many freebies as it can dole out.