Herald Goa

The Agriculture Department after conducting its preliminary assessment has found that at least 287 hectares of paddy fields have been destroyed due to the torrential rains that have hit the State this year.

Agriculture Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar said that if agriculturists have no Krishi Card it will be difficult to compensate them.

The minister was speaking at the culmination program of the Paddy Combined Harvester Operation skill training program along with the Agriculture Director Neville Alphonso.

The Director of Agriculture disclosed that 287 hectares of paddy fields were destroyed due to the heavy rains that Goa is experiencing this year.

Economic Times

Mahindra & Mahindra has raised its shareholding in Finland-based Sampo Rosenlew Oy to 74.97 per cent.

Mahindra & Mahindra has been a shareholder in Sampo Rosenlew since July 2016. Since then the two companies have closely worked on a global alliance to drive the growth of their combine harvester and forest machine businesses in various parts of the world.

In line with Mahindra’s governance principles for associate companies, Sampo will continue to be run as a standalone, independent business unit while simultaneously leveraging synergies where possible.

Peoples Review

A massive wave of farmers’ protest movements against the anti-farmer agriculture bills and amendment to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, has stunned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as it couldn’t believe that a mass upheaval is possible against its economic policies in northern India where Hindutva fascist propaganda has polarised the majority Hindu community.

The Kashmir Monitor

The Agriculture sector has been the ‘economic sweet-spot,’ being amongst the least affected segments of the economy during the current pandemic. Despite all the hardships the Indian economy faced during the last six months, the Agriculture sector has given respite to the country as a whole. At a time when the Indian economy has contracted by 23.9% during Q1 of 2020-21, agriculture and allied activities were the sole bright spot amid the dismal performance of other sectors, clocking a growth rate of 3.4% at constant prices during Q1 of 2020-21.

The outbreak of COVID-19 in India and the resultant lockdowns have disrupted all spheres of life and the Agriculture sector was no exception to this. The Nation-wide ...

Kractivist

India’s farmers are not happy, and dissent is on the rise. Thousands of farmers recently broke out on the streets in vehement opposition against the Union government’s contentious farm bills passed in the Parliament’s Monsoon Session in September 2020.

This, however, is not the first instance of farmers clamouring against the Centre’s ‘unjust’ policies: At least 50 major protests were reported across 20 Indian states in nine months between January and September. These include four countrywide protests in January, May, August and September.

News Bharti

The agricultural reform bills have led to a new political scenario leading the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to quit the NDA Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The bills were passed by a voice vote in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday amid a major ruckus by the Opposition members who trooped into the Well of the House, shouted slogans, tore the rule book, and damaged the presiding officer’s mike to register their protest.

To add to this one of these manhandled the marshal. After manhandling the marshal, he along with his fellows start picketing on the issue of violating the procedure of passing the bill depicting typical pseudo-secularism. In my opinion; Marshal was just performing his ...

Financial Express

With yet another record food production at 301 million tonnes expected on the back of a bumper kharif crop this year, recent MSP hikes can leave the farmers with an additional liquidity of Rs 50,000 crore, according to a report.

The first advance estimates of major kharif crops for 2020-21 have pegged total kharif foodgrain production at 144.52 million tonnes and the overall foodgrain output at 301 million tonnes, CARE Ratings said in the report on Friday.

Indian Express

Widespread protests against controversial farm Bills that the Centre recently pushed through Parliament were held across West Bengal on Friday.

While the Left Front and the Congress held joint demonstrations and organised road blockades in different districts, the farmers’ wing of the Trinamool Congress staged a sit-in on Mayo Road in Kolkata.

In the evening, the Left and the Congress organised a rally in the capital. Congress leaders Abdul Mannan and Pradip Bhattacharya, and Left leaders such as Biman Bose, Manoj Bhattacharya and Sujan Chakraborty participated in the march from Shyambazar to Dharmatala. Congress activists burnt copies of the legislation, and shouted slogans against the BJP government.

Indian Express

On Friday, September 25, farmers’ organisations across the country gave a call for a bandh to protest the three bills passed by Parliament. These bills, namely the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 (FPTC), the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 (FAPAFS), and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 were passed amid protests by the Opposition parties, without discussion in Parliament. Even the government’s allies, such as the Shiromani Akali Dal, have raised apprehensions, lending their voice to the farmers’ demands.

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday attacked the Narendra Modi government over the three farm bills that were passed in Parliament during the Monsoon Session, saying it will “enslave farmers”.

His comments came as several farmers’ outfits intensified their agitation against the legislations and began a nationwide protest. Opposition parties, including the Congress, have extended support to the call of Bharat Bandh.

“A flawed GST destroyed MSMEs [Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises],” Gandhi tweeted. “The new agriculture laws will enslave our farmers.”