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Agriculture Industry
Centre saves subsidy and wheat stocks by making PDS free, ending PMGKAYedit
Business Standard – Online
The Centre seems to have made a smart move to not only limit its food subsidy outgo, which was going out of hand due to unabated extensions of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) but also saved a good chunk of wheat for effective intervention in the open market. This is through its latest decision to make PDS totally free but end extra allocations under PMGKAY, said experts. This is aside from the huge political significance ahead of Lok Sabha elections in 2024 because ration in India has seldom been given free nationally except in case of emergencies such as the Covid pandemic. The move will also take a big selling point from states, ...
Govt. Policies
Telangana’s agricultural policies paving way for farmers’ welfare in India: CM KCRedit
Telangana Today – Online
Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao said with its innovative agricultural policies, the Telangana government paved way for unprecedented development of farmers’s welfare in the country within a short span of eight years. He said apart from bringing a qualitative change in the lives of farmers, Telangana was now instrumental in bringing a pardigm shift in the agriculture sector at the national level. Extending his greetings to farmers across the country marking the National Farmers Day (Kisan Diwas) on Friday, Chandrashekhar Rao emphasised the need for a ‘Kisan Sarkar’ in the country based on Telangana model which was achieving desired results with farmers’ welfare as its goal. He said the Telangana model was the best solution ...
Paddy in India
Farmers threaten to dump paddyedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Peeved over nagging issues during procurement of paddy at mandis, farmers of Jeypore have threatened to dump their produce on NH-26 near Kumuliput on Monday.Sources said procurement in mandis of Jayatigiri, Hadia and Kumulipur panchayats of Jeypore sub-division has been marred by issues like deduction of paddy to compensate for low quality produce. Sources said while farmers of the region are ready to add three kg to a quintal of paddy to make up for the low-quality produce, some middlemen are preventing them from doing so. This has brought the procurement process to a standstill at all mandis under the panchayats. Sources said though mandis were opened in the sub-division on December 15, ...