Times Of India

Hundreds of farmers under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union, Haryana, took out a protest march in Karnal on Tuesday, demanding that girdawari (revenue survey) be conducted at the earliest to assess the damage to crops due to inclement weather last week. They also demanded Rs 50,000 per acre compensation for crop loss due to unseasonal rain and hail in the state. BKU Haryana president Gurnam Singh Charuni led the protest in which farmers assembled at HSVP Ground in Sector 12 here and took out a procession towards the mini secretariat, where they handed over a memorandum addressed to the Karnal deputy commissioner, to sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Narender Kumar Malik.

New Indian Express

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious pension scheme titled ‘Pradhan Mantri Kisan Mandhan Yojana’ is lagging behind as till date only about 1700 farmers have registered for the scheme in Uttarakhand. The hill state has more than 9 lakh farmers.

Subodh Uniyal, state agriculture minister said, “An awareness campaign will be conducted to appraise our farmers about benefits of the scheme. The scheme is to support our farmers at the age of retirement.”

The scheme was introduced in August 2019 by the center to support farmers at the time they reach 60 years of age. Farmers between 18-40 years of age are eligible to sign up for the scheme.

The Hindu BusinessLine

As meat eaters stay away from poultry products such as chicken and eggs due to the scare triggered by the coronavirus outbreak, the demand for pulses such as tur dal and gram is seen picking up in the country. Rich in protein and fibre, pulses have been a major source of vegetable protein for large sections of the population.

The trade believes that consumption of pulses could rise only if the spurt in demand, being witnessed currently, is sustained in the long run.

The Hans India

The continuous fall of chicken prices in the state is plunging nearly two lakh people, who are working in the poultry and allied sectors, into gloom.

The National Action Plan for Egg and Poultry-2022 for Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022 by the department of animal husbandry, dairying, and fisheries, ministry of agriculture and & farmers welfare, Government of India, states that the poultry sector in India is valued at about Rs 80,000 crore. Andhra Pradesh is the largest stakeholder in the market with more than 22 per cent share and 16.2 crore poultry population. In this, more than 13.2 crore birds are grown by the poultry farmers, while 3 crore birds are reared in backyards by ...

The News Minute

The Telangana government on Tuesday issued a government notification waving all agricultural farm loans up to Rs 1 lakh of all farmers in the state. All loans taken by farmers in the state as on March 31, 2014, have been waived.

The government, in its order, stated that crop loans are being waived to break the cycle of farmers taking credit from money lenders to pay loans to banks. The crop loan waiver scheme will cover short-term loans taken against gold by scheduled commercial banks, cooperative credit institutions including urban cooperative banks and regional rural banks.

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The rapid pace of deforestation, urbanisation and road building are major factors in the spread of infectious diseases across Asia, including the coronavirus, health and environment experts said on Wednesday.

Worldwide, more than 119,000 people have been infected by the Covid-19 coronavirus, which emerged from China late last year, and more than 4,200 have died, according to a Reuters tally.

Financial Express

The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana (PMKSNY) has been implemented successfully across the country, barring West Bengal as the eastern state did not join the scheme, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary said the PM-KISAN scheme has been successfully implemented across the country.

“So far, as on March 11, 2020, financial benefit under the scheme has been released to 8,69,79,391 beneficiaries. However, these exclude about 69 lakh farmers of West Bengal as the government of West Bengal has not yet decided to join the scheme,” he said during Question Hour.

Tribune India

Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday declared that his government would not allow “kurki” of the land of beleaguered farmers, who had been trapped in the vicious debt cycle.

At a conclave to mark the third anniversary of his government, the Chief Minister dismissed the Centre’s promise of doubling farmers’ income as mere hogwash in the absence of any concrete steps. “Does the Union Finance Minister even know what agriculture is all about?,” he questioned, demanding that she should explain what the Centre planned to do to boost farm income, after first ensuring that every grain was lifted in Punjab and not allowed to rot in godowns. Capt Amarinder described banks as the root of the ...