Falling incomes
5 years, 9 months ago

Falling incomes

The Hindu  

THE north-western plains of Uttar Pradesh, covering Meerut, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Muzaffarnagar, Rampur and Saharanpur, boast the highest land productivity in the State. The Modi-Yogi Adityanath combine has spelt disaster for the farmers of Uttar Pradesh, according to the farmer Rambeer Singh of Mawana tehsil in Meerut district. How will a farmer survive?” Farmers across Uttar Pradesh have been protesting outside sugar mills for their payments to come through. “The 150 million small and marginal dairy sector farm families, 95 per cent of them headed by women, would either be finished or would have to sell to the big companies which were engaging in price wars with the cooperatives,” he said. The RCEP would remove tariffs on 92 per cent of traded commodities and open the floodgates for cheap imports, destroying India’s already stressed farm sector, they said.

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In RS, Shivraj Assures MSP For All Crops As Farmers' Delhi March Deferred For Talks With Modi Govt Tomorrow
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1 month, 1 week ago

In RS, Shivraj Assures MSP For All Crops As Farmers' Delhi March Deferred For Talks With Modi Govt Tomorrow

ABP News  

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan assured the Rajya Sabha on Friday that the Narendra Modi government would procure all farm produce at the minimum support price. Highlighting the government's efforts, Chouhan said, “Since 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to calculate the minimum support price by giving 50 per cent profit on cost of production to farmers.” He …

Maharashtra polls: Mahayuti rides on bountiful rain to woo farmers
2 months, 1 week ago

Maharashtra polls: Mahayuti rides on bountiful rain to woo farmers

Hindustan Times  

PUNE: After a prolonged dry spell last year, Maharashtra received an impressive 126% average rainfall in 2024, thereby managing to recover from the drought of 2023-24 that severely impacted the farming community. The opposition MVA however continues to argue that farm distress persists, and that despite good rainfall, farmers continue to face rising production costs, stagnant crop prices, and significant …

LS polls: Rural hardship hurts BJP
7 months, 1 week ago

LS polls: Rural hardship hurts BJP

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Faced with the police’s tear gas and rubber bullets, farmers from Punjab have been protesting outside Delhi since February, a reprisal of the uprisings of 2020 and 2021, albeit on a smaller scale. Farmers protesting against new farm laws While the Bharatiya Janata Party has dominated large swathes of India’s rural heartland in the last 10 years, discontent …

Farmers peeved as agri-bonus promise in Raj, MP not kept
10 months ago

Farmers peeved as agri-bonus promise in Raj, MP not kept

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The issue of agriculture bonuses is set to become a significant talking point during the forthcoming general elections, with resentment brewing among farmers following the BJP’s retraction of its initial commitment to provide bonus amounts in addition to the procurement of wheat and rice at the Minimum Support Price. The newly elected BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh and …

We must not let Indian agriculture turn into an unending tragi-comedy
10 months, 1 week ago

We must not let Indian agriculture turn into an unending tragi-comedy

Live Mint  

Third, agricultural spends have a targeting problem. Professor Ashok Gulati estimates that the MSP system’s total coverage is limited to only 5.6% of Indian farmers and just 2.2% of our agricultural produce by value. Juxtapose this with the fact that agriculture today accounts for a much lower portion of rural household incomes than is usually imagined. As per the National …

Congress’ Sidhu calls doubling farmers’ MSP or income ‘biggest lie in the world’
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Congress’ Sidhu calls doubling farmers’ MSP or income ‘biggest lie in the world’

Live Mint  

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday addressed a press conference on ongoing farmers' protest. Sidhu said "doubling farmers' MSP or income" is the "biggest lie in the world". Sidhu said, “.Farmer's MSP and income will be doubled, is there a bigger lie than this in the world?.” Sidhu said that the government increases ₹40 and takes back ₹400. Supporting …

India farmers march: What are their demands? Why is gov’t blocking roads?
11 months ago

India farmers march: What are their demands? Why is gov’t blocking roads?

Al Jazeera  

Farmers are demanding a legal minimum price for their crops as they march to New Delhi and ask government to fulfill its promises. The SKM played a key role in the 2020-2021 protests that forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal three farm laws that farmers feared would have benefitted corporations at their expense. https://t.co/hCL3AEE2Ks — Devinder Sharma February 13, …

How falling farm incomes impact India’s economy
1 year, 9 months ago

How falling farm incomes impact India’s economy

Live Mint  

After a period of robust crop prices, farm incomes are likely to take a hit in 2023 following a glut in perishable prices and damage wreaked by unseasonal rains. In March, ready-to-harvest winter crops like wheat, chick peas and mustard were damaged by hailstorms and unseasonal rains in several states. But higher prices for rice and wheat are a result …

Some political parties want to keep farmers involved in problems: PM Modi in poll-bound UP
3 years, 1 month ago

Some political parties want to keep farmers involved in problems: PM Modi in poll-bound UP

India Today  

On the day he announced the roll back of the three farm laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lashed out at the opposition parties, saying their only motive is to keep the farmers involved in problems. PM Modi was in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba to inaugurate multiple projects for farmers aimed at ending water scarcity in the dry Bundelkhand region. …

Eye on Small Farmers & Western Uttar Pradesh, BJP Govt Takes the Big Step on Three Farm Laws
3 years, 1 month ago

Eye on Small Farmers & Western Uttar Pradesh, BJP Govt Takes the Big Step on Three Farm Laws

News 18  

The death of protesting farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri—west Uttar Pradesh’s gateway to Avadh—fronted the state’s agrarian concerns regarding the Centre’s contentious farm laws. It was no longer about the better off Jat farmers or the landed castes; small and marginal farmers, who have formed the backbone of the BJP’s support since 2014, were as agitated about the Centre’s reluctance to …

Mohan Guruswamy | India's agriculture: The failure of the success
3 years, 2 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | India's agriculture: The failure of the success

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s agriculture has come a long way since we awaited shiploads of American grain over half a century ago to feed our people. The pitiable condition of the majority of India’s farmers who cultivate small patches of land in the mostly rain-fed areas of India has generally gone unnoticed, both by the social media and the political class. The story …

MSP hike to boost farmers’ income, improve living standards, says PM Modi
3 years, 7 months ago

MSP hike to boost farmers’ income, improve living standards, says PM Modi

Live Mint  

With the Centre hiking the MSP of several crops on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the move will boost farmers' income and improve their living standards. The support price of maize has been increased marginally by ₹20 to ₹1,870 per quintal for the 2021-22 crop year from ₹1,850 per quintal last year. The moong support price has been increased …

India’s farm sector to sustain momentum, but that’s not enough
3 years, 8 months ago

India’s farm sector to sustain momentum, but that’s not enough

Hindustan Times  

India’s farm sector is forecast to maintain its remarkable expansion in 2021-22 on the back of robust output and prices despite the coronavirus pandemic. A normal monsoon will continue to see an expansion of the agriculture sector, aside from good encouraging prices and acreage trends,” said Abhishek Agrawal of Comtrade, an agricultural trading firm. Better performance of the agriculture sector …

Angry farmers storm India’s Red Fort in challenge to Modi
3 years, 11 months ago

Angry farmers storm India’s Red Fort in challenge to Modi

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of farmers marched, rode horses and drove tractors into India’s capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades to storm the historic Red Fort — a deeply symbolic act that revealed the scale of their challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. “We will not surrender.” Leaders of the farmers said more than 10,000 tractors …

Agri Bills Aim to Double Farmers' Income, MSP & Mandis Not Going to be Quashed: UP CM Yogi Adityanath
4 years ago

Agri Bills Aim to Double Farmers' Income, MSP & Mandis Not Going to be Quashed: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

News 18  

Reiterating Modi government’s commitment to double the income of the farmers by 2022, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday sought to make it clear that all the endeavours of the Centre in the state were aimed towards this and the overall welfare of the farmer community. “I appeal to you to not be misguided by the misinformation campaign …

'Farmers' Protest Causing Daily Loss of Rs 3,000-3500 Crore to Economies of Punjab, Haryana and HP'
4 years, 1 month ago

'Farmers' Protest Causing Daily Loss of Rs 3,000-3500 Crore to Economies of Punjab, Haryana and HP'

News 18  

Industry body ASSOCHAM on Tuesday said the ongoing protests against the farm reform laws are dealing a big blow to the interconnected economies of the region, including Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. A daily loss of Rs 3,000-3500 crore is resulting in the economies of the region from the value chain and transport disruption because of the protests, according to …

Indian farmers hold out in stoush with New Delhi over proposed farming reforms
4 years, 1 month ago

Indian farmers hold out in stoush with New Delhi over proposed farming reforms

ABC  

Indian ministers and representatives of thousands of protesting farmers have failed to break a deadlock over a set of new farm laws that protesters say threaten their livelihoods. Key points: Farmers have been pushing for better crop prices, additional loan waivers and irrigation systems The Government has argued the laws will allow farmers to boost production through private investment India's …

Tall claims of industrial development in Uttar Pradesh
4 years, 2 months ago

Tall claims of industrial development in Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu  

The Uttar Pradesh government has, over the past three years, attempted to build an investment-friendly image of itself, organising headliner summits and claiming the inflow of millions of dollars of cash. Speaking to Frontline, Alok Ranjan, former Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, said only 30 per cent of the proposed Rs.4.28 lakh crore of investments had been actualised. In February, …

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh protest against farm laws amid grave agrarian crisis
4 years, 2 months ago

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh protest against farm laws amid grave agrarian crisis

The Hindu  

The three controversial farm Bills steamrolled by the Central government in Parliament in September proved to be the final nail in the coffin for Uttar Pradesh’s beleaguered farming sector. But, according to the Economic Survey Report 2020, the majority, or as many as 87 per cent of India’s farmers, own less than one hectare of land and are considered small …

Agriculture Reforms: Ignore Political Rhetoric, Embrace Prosperity Economics
4 years, 3 months ago

Agriculture Reforms: Ignore Political Rhetoric, Embrace Prosperity Economics

News 18  

A visibly low-hanging economic reform contains within it several vested interests. In fact, it must start communicating directly with small farmers — the middlemen in the closed agricultural chain are the same that ensure exploitative politics on farms. This law beaks the monopsony of Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees, overseen by state governments, and enables farmers to sell their produce to …

Seeking an Economic Miracle
4 years, 6 months ago

Seeking an Economic Miracle

India Today  

With a Rs 5.13 lakh crore budget for 2020-21 -- the largest in Uttar Pradesh's history -- and plans to build vast amounts of new infrastructure, including 11 airports, seven universities and 28 medical colleges, the Yogi Adityanath-led state government has made notable efforts to achieve its stated aim of growing the state's economy past the $1 trillion-mark by 2024. …

Govt confident of doubling farmers income by 2022
4 years, 10 months ago

Govt confident of doubling farmers income by 2022

India TV News  

Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Chaudhary on Tuesday expressed confidence of achieving the target of doubling farmers income by 2022. The average monthly income of farmers' income stood at Rs 8,167 during 2016-17, while at Rs 6,426 in 2013-14, as per the National Sample Survey Office report, he said. ".doubling farmers' income is the priority of the government..I am …

UP has finalized a plan, identified sectors to become $1 tn economy: Yogi Adityanath
5 years, 3 months ago

UP has finalized a plan, identified sectors to become $1 tn economy: Yogi Adityanath

Live Mint  

The Uttar Pradesh government led by chief minister Yogi Adityanath recently completed two-and-a-half years in office. We have worked towards improving the law and order situation in the state, the state government has been working to improve the condition of farmers and also to generate employment for the youth of the state within Uttar Pradesh. The state government has taken …

PM Modi to launch BIG TICKET farmers' pension scheme in Ranchi on Sept 12
5 years, 4 months ago

PM Modi to launch BIG TICKET farmers' pension scheme in Ranchi on Sept 12

India TV News  

Jharkahnd Chief Minister Raghubar Das said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would launch three national level and two state level schemes from here on September 12. "The Prime Minister will launch three national and two state level schemes here on September 12. The first scheme is Kisan Mandhan Yojna, under which farmers will get Rs 3,000 pension; the …

India needs land, labour reform to aid manufacturing: Krishnamurthy Subramanian
5 years, 10 months ago

India needs land, labour reform to aid manufacturing: Krishnamurthy Subramanian

Live Mint  

New Delhi: India's next government will have to bring in land, labour and financial sector reforms to improve the productivity of the manufacturing sector and boost economic growth, India's chief economic adviser said. Several business leaders said a delay in land acquisition for private factories, decades-old restrictive labour laws and higher borrowing costs discourage many investors who therefore prefer to …

Rural rumbles
5 years, 11 months ago

Rural rumbles

The Hindu  

Many people attributed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral defeat in the Hindi heartland States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh on December 11 to rural distress, in particular the marked resentment of farmers towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi. When the RKM, a federation of 130 farmers’ organisations, and Anna Hazare held a joint press conference in New Delhi on January …

'Govt luring farmers with peanuts': Union Budget allocation gets lukewarm response from agrarian sector
5 years, 11 months ago

'Govt luring farmers with peanuts': Union Budget allocation gets lukewarm response from agrarian sector

Firstpost  

Several farmers said after Finance Minister Piyush Goyal finished presenting this government’s last budget that it had not swayed them to vote for Narendra Modi’s BJP. Mumbai: “Peanuts” was how one rural politician described a 6,000 rupee yearly handout to small farmers promised in Friday’s budget as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to secure the support of rural voters …

Direct income support a fiscal minefield for India
5 years, 11 months ago

Direct income support a fiscal minefield for India

India Today  

India’s politics is obsessed with elections so much that it has put the country’s economy into a danger zone. Instead of persuading states to avoid populist tokenism of offering direct income support, PM Modi has joined the bandwagon of fiscal naïveté. Explicitly panicked by the recent electoral defeats and Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s income support rhetoric, the Modi government has …

Budget 2019: FM cultivates farmers with ₹6,000 in hand every year
5 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2019: FM cultivates farmers with ₹6,000 in hand every year

Live Mint  

In a bid to win back the support of disgruntled farmers ahead of general election due in April-May, the Narendra Modi government on Friday announced an income support scheme for small farmers as a key promise in its final budget. Finance minister Piyush Goyal assured farmer households a direct income transfer of ₹6,000 per year and said the first instalment …

Budget 2019: FM cultivates farmers with ₹6,000 in hand every year
5 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2019: FM cultivates farmers with ₹6,000 in hand every year

Live Mint  

In a bid to win back the support of disgruntled farmers ahead of general election due in April-May, the Narendra Modi government on Friday announced an income support scheme for small farmers as a key promise in its final budget. Finance minister Piyush Goyal assured farmer households a direct income transfer of ₹6,000 per year and said the first instalment …

Budget 2019: Will Modi govt offer big relief to farmers? Yes, says BJP leader
5 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2019: Will Modi govt offer big relief to farmers? Yes, says BJP leader

India TV News  

The Modi government is likely to announce a slew of measures to boost the income of country's farmers in the Union Budget 2019 which will be presented on February 1. Speaking to reporters during a press conference, Bharatiya Janata Party farmer's cell chief Virendra Singh Mast said the Modi government is committed to help the farmers improve their income. In …

How politics around anti-incumbency, farm distress affected assembly poll outcomes
6 years, 1 month ago

How politics around anti-incumbency, farm distress affected assembly poll outcomes

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Widespread distress among farmers due to falling crop prices and rising debt levels, coupled with anti-incumbency, played a significant role in the Congress unseating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The Congress’ gains were likely due to its populist poll promises targeting farmers—loan waivers within 10 days of being voted to power …

Farmers plan march in New Delhi: Agrarian crisis is deep and pervasive, but not fully appreciated or remedied
6 years, 1 month ago

Farmers plan march in New Delhi: Agrarian crisis is deep and pervasive, but not fully appreciated or remedied

Firstpost  

There are waves and waves of marches by farmers, landless and tribals in many parts of India these days, particularly to the seats of power. Editor’s note: This article is the first of a two-part series analysing the agrarian crisis in India, in light of the various marches and protests undertaken by farmers in recent months to highlight their problems. …

Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood star, clears debts of 1,398 Indian farmers
6 years, 1 month ago

Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood star, clears debts of 1,398 Indian farmers

CNN  

New Delhi CNN — Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has cleared more than $560,000 worth of debt owed by farmers, amid a wider agricultural crisis that has forced many rural workers into extreme poverty. In a blog post on Tuesday, he wrote he had “taken care” of 1,398 farmers in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where Bachchan was born, …

How the govt’s goal of doubling farmers’ incomes is shaping up
6 years, 3 months ago

How the govt’s goal of doubling farmers’ incomes is shaping up

Live Mint  

On 13 September, Gyan Singh, a 28-year-old young farmer from Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh, began a week- long journey, first from his village to the state capital of Bhopal, and then in a cramped general compartment of an express train to Delhi. In February 2016, the Narendra Modi government in New Delhi set itself a formidable target: to double …

Reduction in number of farmers will help raise farm incomes: Ramesh Chand
6 years, 3 months ago

Reduction in number of farmers will help raise farm incomes: Ramesh Chand

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Growth in farm incomes will be aided by a reduction in the number of farmers and value addition of produce, apart from rising growth in agriculture gross domestic product, according to farm sector expert and NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand. Edited excerpts from an interview: India’s agriculture GDP growth rate has averaged 2.5% in the past four years. …

For NDA's move to raise MSPs of monsoon crops to matter, agriculture needs structural changes, says economic analyst
6 years, 3 months ago

For NDA's move to raise MSPs of monsoon crops to matter, agriculture needs structural changes, says economic analyst

Firstpost  

By Shreehari Paliath Mumbai: Under pressure from farmers’ groups across the country due to falling prices and a glut of produce, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government announced a hike in the minimum support prices of kharif season crops in July 2018. pic.twitter.com/7HayzD6ccD — BJP July 4, 2018 However, the new MSPs do not meet the recommendations made …

After Mumbai, farmers' rally to hit Delhi
6 years, 4 months ago

After Mumbai, farmers' rally to hit Delhi

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Young farmers on motorcycles, housewives from Maharashtra and workers from across the country are among the lakhs of people who would hit the streets of the capital on Wednesday demanding that the Narendra Modi government provide concrete measures for employment generation, controlling price rise and ensuring minimum wages for workers. After the success of the Maharashtra long march, …

Why reports of agriculture’s demise are greatly exaggerated
6 years, 4 months ago

Why reports of agriculture’s demise are greatly exaggerated

Live Mint  

Bengaluru/New Delhi: Farmers may be looking for alternative avenues of income, but it is too soon to write off the significance of agriculture in rural India, data from the recently released Nabard All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey shows. An initial reading of the survey findings seems to suggest that earnings from farm-related activities—cultivation and livestock rearing—contributed just 43% to …

Karnataka government waives farms loans, raises levies on petrol, diesel, power
6 years, 6 months ago

Karnataka government waives farms loans, raises levies on petrol, diesel, power

India TV News  

A day after PM Narendra Modi revised minimum support price on Kharif crops to please farmers, the JD-Congress coalition government in Karnataka on Thursday also waived farm loans totalling Rs 34,000 crore, giving relief to distressed farmers across the state. "I propose to waive farm loans totalling Rs 34,000 crore, with Rs 2 lakh per farmer family," Chief Minister H.D. …

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