Crop damage: Telangana govt. releases Rs.15.81 cr as input subsidy to farmers
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Crop damage: Telangana govt. releases Rs.15.81 cr as input subsidy to farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The State government on Monday released an amount of Rs.15.81 crore for paying input subsidy to farmers whose agriculture and horticulture crops were damaged due to heavy rains or hailstorms in 10 districts between March 16 and 21, 2024. In its order, the State government said it was providing one-time relief to 10 districts as farmers suffered crop damage and accordingly released the amount from the State Disaster Response Fund. The government gave these orders after Agriculture and Cooperation department has informed that agriculture and horticulture crops were damaged in 10 districts due to heavy rains or hailstorms and requested to release an amount of Rs.15.81 crore as a one-time measure, a relief of Rs. The District Collectors should ensure that the disbursement shall be made only under strict supervision so that only genuine beneficiaries get the input subsidy, according to Secretary to Government, Rahul Bojja.

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Odisha CM Launches Rs 800 Input Aid for Farmers
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Odisha CM Launches Rs 800 Input Aid for Farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Sunday launched an initiative to provide an additional input assistance of Rs 800 per quintal to paddy farmers, supplementing the minimum support price of Rs 2,300 per quintal. It is only fitting that we start this initiative here.” Majhi also took the opportunity to critique the policies of the previous administration, led …

Odisha CM to release paddy input subsidy at Sohela on December 8
1 month, 1 week ago

Odisha CM to release paddy input subsidy at Sohela on December 8

New Indian Express  

BHUBANESWAR: Advancing the date of paddy procurement of the kharif marketing season 2024-25 by a day to November 20, the state government on Wednesday decided to release the additional input subsidy of Rs 800 per quintal of paddy to farmers from December 8. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will release the subsidy along with the minimum support price of Rs …

Over ₹13 crore funds needed to support farmers in drought-affected areas of Nellore, says Collector
6 months ago

Over ₹13 crore funds needed to support farmers in drought-affected areas of Nellore, says Collector

The Hindu  

A team appointed by the Central government reached Nellore on Wednesday morning, to assess the drought situation in the district. Speaking to the media later, Mr. Narayanan stated that ₹13.35 crore is needed to support affected farmers across the ten drought zones. He urged the Central team to provide financial assistance while apprising them of the severe drought conditions in …

Telangana Govt faced with twin challenges of implementing crop loan waiver and crediting Rythu Bharosa kharif instalment
6 months, 1 week ago

Telangana Govt faced with twin challenges of implementing crop loan waiver and crediting Rythu Bharosa kharif instalment

The Hindu  

Telangana government is faced with the twin challenges of fulfilling the promise of crop loan waiver upto ₹2 lakh to farmers and crediting the amounts under Rythu Bharosa, the Farmers’ Investment Support Scheme, in the next couple of months. While the government is mulling various options for raising resources to ensure crop loan waiver, implementation of the Rythu Bharosa will …

Unending woes of Telangana’s farmers
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Unending woes of Telangana’s farmers

The Hindu  

Exactly a month ago, Telangana farmer Itharaveni Rajesham succumbed to heat stroke while perched atop a small heap of 38 quintals of paddy, waiting for his turn to sell it at a government-run procurement centre in Ragampeta village, 28 km from the Karimnagar district headquarters. “He was visibly exhausted, shuttling between his house and the procurement centre to sell his …

Harish Rao demands ₹10,000 per acre relief to ryots, crops hit by untimely rain
9 months ago

Harish Rao demands ₹10,000 per acre relief to ryots, crops hit by untimely rain

The Hindu  

hyderabad Former Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader T. Harish Rao has demanded that the State government sanction compensation/input subsidy to a large number of farmers who have suffered crop damage/loss in the hails, gales and untimely rain in parts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karmareddy, Karimnagar, Rajanna-Sircilla, Medak, Siddipet, Rangareddy and other districts for the last couple of days. The former …

Rs 3,262 crore given to 34 lakh farmers in past five years: Jagan
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Rs 3,262 crore given to 34 lakh farmers in past five years: Jagan

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has said his government distributed Rs 3,262 crore to 34 lakh farmers despite the iterations of drought in the past five years. “We provided timely assistance to every farmer in a transparent manner free from corruption and discrimination,” the Chief Minister said while distributing input subsidy of Rs 1,294.58 crore to 11,61,000 farmers, …

AP Starts Enumeration of Crop Damage in 103 Drought-hit Mandals
1 year, 1 month ago

AP Starts Enumeration of Crop Damage in 103 Drought-hit Mandals

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Enumeration of crop damage in 103 drought-hit mandals begins in AP on Friday with a target to submit the final list of beneficiaries by November 29 so as to release input subsidy to them early. The special commissioner issued directions to the district agriculture officers to initiate the process of enumeration of agricultural crop damage of more than 33 …

Telangana HC Questions Non-Implementation of Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme
1 year, 2 months ago

Telangana HC Questions Non-Implementation of Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Tuesday sought to know from the central and Telangana state government as to why a comprehensive “crop insurance scheme” which covers all types of losses faced by farmers was not implemented in Telangana. The Division bench issued the notices, while adjudicating the taken-up PIL by converting the communication sent by Rapolu Bhaskar, a practising …

AP procured 3.10 crore metric tonnes of paddy from 32.78 lakh farmers, says Karumuri
1 year, 3 months ago

AP procured 3.10 crore metric tonnes of paddy from 32.78 lakh farmers, says Karumuri

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Civil Supplies Minister Karumuri Nageswara said on Sunday that the AP government provided minimum support price for the paddy it procured from the farmers and kept middlemen and brokers out of the purchase process. Refuting allegations of Telugu Desam chief Chandrababu Naidu and others that the state government was neglecting paddy farmers, the minister said that during the five …

Telangana farmers in dire straits, KCR cheated them: Kishan
1 year, 4 months ago

Telangana farmers in dire straits, KCR cheated them: Kishan

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana farmers are in dire straits and the fact that more than 6,000 farmers committed suicide in the last nine years speaks volumes of the plight of farmers in the state,” Union minister and state BJP president G. Kishan Reddy said on Thursday. Addressing a gathering of farmers at Shamirpet to mark the launch of PM Kisan Samriddhi Kendra …

TS BJP sets up LED screens for PM address to farmers
1 year, 4 months ago

TS BJP sets up LED screens for PM address to farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Taking the message that the Narendra Modi government is farmer friendly, the Telangana BJP has decided that it will take an address by the Prime Minister on July 27 to farmers in the country to all farmers in the state. The BJP in Telangana has been focusing on the farmer and agriculture-friendly administration of the Modi government while at …

Input subsidy: AP calls for list of affected farmers by May 21
1 year, 7 months ago

Input subsidy: AP calls for list of affected farmers by May 21

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: The farmers hit by untimely rain are a worried lot vis-a-vis getting relief in the form of input subsidy or insurance claim for damage or loss to crops. With no rainfall in the last three days and day temperatures soaring, the state government issued orders to officials for enumeration of damage or loss to crops due to the rainfall. …

BJP demands crop insurance scheme for farmers
1 year, 7 months ago

BJP demands crop insurance scheme for farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Telangana BJP on Wednesday demanded that the state government immediately introduce a comprehensive crop insurance scheme to save farmers from repeated disasters of crop losses due to adverse weather events. Bharatiya Janata Party state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar said in the past three years farmers lost crops in around 37 lakh acres in the state, and with an average …

BJP rubbishes KCR's crop damage aid, seeks Fasal Bima in state
1 year, 8 months ago

BJP rubbishes KCR's crop damage aid, seeks Fasal Bima in state

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The BJP on Thursday said the Rs 10,000 compensation offered by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao to farmers whose crops were damaged in the recent heavy rain and hailstorm spells in Telangana state was nothing more than an eyewash. The party said farmers in Telangana, facing periodic catastrophic losses on account of weather-related events, would not be in a …

75% of promised crop damage relief is from Central funds: BJP
1 year, 9 months ago

75% of promised crop damage relief is from Central funds: BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Telangana government was disingenuous in claiming that it will pay Rs 10,000 per acre as relief on its own to the farmers who suffered crop losses following heavy rains in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party said on Thursday. “If one goes by the extent of area of 2,22,500 acres that saw crop damages, the total compensation promised …

Jagan to disburse ₹1,090 crore to benefit 51.12 lakh farmers today
1 year, 9 months ago

Jagan to disburse ₹1,090 crore to benefit 51.12 lakh farmers today

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy would disburse a financial assistance of ₹1,090.76 crore for 51.12 lakh farmers --mainly the victims of crop loss due to natural calamities -- under the YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan Scheme on Tuesday. In the last three-and-half-years, under the Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan scheme, the farmers were offered ₹27,062.09 crore so far, including the ₹1,090.76 …

Farmers’ plight takes centre stage in Odisha byelection
2 years, 1 month ago

Farmers’ plight takes centre stage in Odisha byelection

The Hindu  

Farmers’ plight took the centre stage in the coming Padmapur byelection as Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday announced input assistance of about ₹200 crore for the drought-affected areas of the State. “So far, many of the affected farmers have not yet received their crop insurance dues despite continuous follow-up and pursuance by the State government with …

CM Jagan clears input subsidy to six lakh farmers
2 years, 10 months ago

CM Jagan clears input subsidy to six lakh farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has credited Rs 542.06 crore as input subsidy into accounts of 5,97,311 farmers, whose crops had been damaged due to heavy rains and floods in November last year. Jagan Mohan Reddy pointed out that the state government has so far paid Rs 1,612 crore as input subsidy to 19.93 lakh farmers in the …

Andhra Govt Paid Rs 1,612 Crore to Farmers Whose Crops Damaged Due to Rains, Says CM Jagan
2 years, 10 months ago

Andhra Govt Paid Rs 1,612 Crore to Farmers Whose Crops Damaged Due to Rains, Says CM Jagan

News 18  

The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday disbursed Rs 542 crore as input subsidies to farmers for crops damaged due to heavy rains and floods in November 2021, along with Rs 29.51 crore to 1,220 farmer groups under YSR Farm Mechanisation Scheme. Speaking on this occasion, the Chief Minister said that the State government had paid Rs 1,612 crore in the …

Despite crisis, AP government to pay affected farmers
2 years, 10 months ago

Despite crisis, AP government to pay affected farmers

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: With no financial assistance being released by the Centre for crop damages due to heavy rains last November, the AP government will release nearly Rs 542 crore as input subsidy to the affected farmers soon to help them resume cultivation of crops. Agriculture officials privy to the development related to release of Central aid, say that the proposals on …

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