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Modi’s cash-for-farmers plan hits land record gapsedit
The Modi government’s grand announcement of Rs 6,000 a year for small and marginal farmers owning land up to 2 hectares — which many critics see as a blatant cash-for-votes overture ahead of this year’s general election — is likely to stumble because of India’s patchy land records system.
Three years on, government’s e-mandi project yet to gain tractionedit
While announcing an income support scheme for farmers in the interim Budget for 2019-20, Union minister Piyush Goyal highlighted the distress in the farm sector due to falling prices of agriculture commodities. However, a 2016 scheme launched by the government to help farmers get better prices for their produce through an integrated digital market platform still remains underutilized. According to the agriculture ministry, over one crore farmers are registered on the portal and around 45 lakh have benefited from the measure so far.
80 lakh Karnataka farmers may reap benefits of Narendra Modi’s cash incentiveedit
A farmer takes buffalo to paddy field for ploughing in Mangaluru. BENGALURU: The Narendra Modi government’s cash incentive for farmers is expected to benefit about 80 lakh small and marginal farmers in Karnataka. “There are around 80 lakh marginal and small farmers who have less than 2 hectares (5 acres) holdings. If Rs 6,000 is paid to each farmer, the total outlay for Karnataka will be Rs 4,800 crore. Karnataka should get at least Rs 1,600 crore in the first instalment before April,’’ said a senior agriculture department official citing the Karnataka Agriculture Census 2010-11.
Understanding Land in the Time of Farmers’ Suicidesedit
Much of these are supply side factors, arising from structural changes in either the agriculture sector or the economy in general. An ongoing study of farmers’ suicide cases in a relatively well-off region of Karnataka, however, points to certain changes in the fundamental relationship that farmers’ have with their land.
Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Beema earn UN recognitionedit
Telangana Legislative Assembly Speaker P Srinivas Reddy said Telangana Government’s Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Beema schemes have earned United Nations recognition among the top 20 schemes selected world over.
10 crore farmers to get Rs 2,000 by March-end: Junior Agri Ministeredit
The government will pay 100 million farmers Rs 2,000 each by the end of March and will be able to swiftly transfer subsequent instalments under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PMKISAN) scheme for small landholders, minister of state for agriculture Gajendra Shekhawat told ET.
Budget boost for the Kisan! Farmers owning land of up to 2 hectares to get Rs 6,000 a yearedit
As widely expected the Narendra Modi government has announced an income support scheme for poor farmers in Interim Budget 2019.
Punjab: Stop banks from filing cases against farmers over loans, bank panel urgededit
Seven farmers’ organisations of Punjab have written to the State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) for its intervention after several incidents of farmers facing criminal cases from private and nationalised banks over delay in recovery of agricultural loans. The organisations – BKU Ekta, Dakaunda, BKU (Ugahan), Kirti Kisan Union, Bharti Kisan Union, Kisan Sangharsh Committee, Karatikari Kisan Union and Kisan Sangharsh Committee Azad – requested the committee to stop the banks from obtaining blank cheques for agriculture loans and filing criminal cases against farmers for loan recovery, saying it is a violation of bank rules. “