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Although income mobility improved country-wide in the seven years to 2012, the progress was unequal between states, while the likelihood of children pursuing the same occupation as their fathers declined for those employed in the low productivity agricultural sector, noted a January 2019 study on economic mobility.

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The Times of India  Pune Mirror

State government will initiate the exercise in first week of August, in the hope that farmers will not have to sow again once their fields are washed by artificial rains. With the monsoon getting off to a weak start this year, the state government is turning to cloud seeding to come to the rescue of farmers with the help of artificial rains. The process will be kicked off for Ahmednagar and Solapur districts that come under the Pune division, alongside Marathwada and Nagpur in other parts of the state. “The experiments will be carried out in the first week of August. The decision has been prompted by the shortfall in rainfall ...

United News of India

Empowerment of the farmers is the topmost priority of this Government, Minister of state for Agriculture Purushottam Rupala said on Friday. Responding to debate on a private members Bill moved in the Rajya sabha by the BJP lawmaker Vjiay Pal Singh Tomar to improve and strengthen the farmer’s condition in the country, the Minister said,’empowering the farmers is the first priority of the er Narendra Modi led Government.’ He said this Government has initiated a multi pronged strategy to strengthen the condition of farmers.

Krishi Jagran

The Indian government has approved a sum of Rs 206.8 crore for a Central Sector Scheme named ‘Implementation of Agriculture Export Policy’ that aims to double farmers’ income by the year 2022. The government through a notification informed that “It has approved a Central Sector Scheme ‘Implementation of Agriculture Export Policy’”. Of the total amount, Rs 134.50 crore has been allotted to setup dedicated clusters for bananas, mangoes, pomegranate, grapes, turmeric, tea, coffee and marine products, along with pre & post-harvest management of the production, upgrading the supply chain to achieve much higher levels of export from those clusters.

The Times of India  The Asian Age

The Delhi government should cooperate in implementing the newly launched central scheme Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) under which Rs 6,000 is paid in three equal installments annually to each farmer who owns land, minister of state for agriculture Parshottam Rupala said in the Rajya Sabha. The Centre had launched the PM-KISAN scheme just before the Lok Sabha elections. Most states are implementing the scheme barring few states especially Delhi and West Bengal.

Millennium Post

In a move aimed at effective implementation of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY), the government has invited suggestions from all the members of the parliament on the matter. While divulging the information, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told Lok Sabha on Wednesday that the government is working on making crop insurance more effective same.

The Deccan Chronicle

The Telangana Assembly on Thursday passed the Telangana State Commission for Debt Relief (Small Farmers, Agricultural Labour and Rural Artisans) Amendment Ordinance, 2019. While introducing the Ordinance 2019, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said that the amendment was brought to appoint an eminent person or farmer well versed in the field of agriculture and the issues of farmers, to head the Commission instead of a retired judge of the High Court as per the earlier provision under the Act.

The Indian Express

Even as the state government claimed to have provided assistance to over 51 lakh farmers under its flagship Kalia scheme, it has sent a list of around 30 lakh farmers to the Centre for assistance under PM Kisan scheme. Agriculture and Farmers Empowerment Minister Arun Kumar Sahoo said though 57.11 lakh small and marginal farmers and 39.3 lakh landless farmers had applied for assistance under Kalia scheme, 51,05,290 farmers have received the aid so far.