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Award-winning farmer from Vidarbha dies by suicide
A farmer awarded for his agriculture work in Maharashtra died by suicide, citing irrigation issues and debt in drought-hit Vidarbha region.
Published on Mar 15, 2025 05:22 AM IST
Switch to maize, will buy it at MSP: Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjeet to farmers
Kapurthala MLA Rana Gurjeet said that Presently, maize demands for large scale industrial units are being met by the farmers from others states. The MLA said his five ethanol units require 4,000 tonnes of maize per day.
Published on Mar 11, 2025 09:46 AM IST
Vishal Joshi, Muktsar
Guest Column| Bring Punjab back on national agenda
The central government must play a proactive role in addressing Punjab’s challenges. As it did during the Green Revolution, it should bring the state back to the national forefront. Allocating funds for infrastructure, facilitating fruitful dialogue on contentious issues, and ensuring fair representation of Punjab in national policies are essential actions.
Published on Feb 19, 2025 02:31 PM IST
Punjab: Draft agri marketing policy worse than farm laws, says SKM
Samyukt Kisan Morcha, which spearheaded the year-long farmer agitation in 2020-21, says mahapanchayats at Tohana and Moga on January 4 and 9 will adopt resolutions against the National Policy Framework on Agriculture Marketing.
Updated on Jan 03, 2025 04:40 PM IST
Courts can’t fix agriculture, problems are far too complex
Fixing the viability and sustainability crisis in India’s farms requires a more broad-based political dialogue among all stakeholders
Published on Nov 24, 2024 07:31 PM IST
HT Editorial
Will ‘batenge toh katenge’ and ‘vote jihad’ solve people’s problems: Thackeray
Thackeray said BJP leaders were resorting to slogans like “batenge toh katenge” because they have no answer to unemployment, the agrarian crisis and inflation
Updated on Nov 17, 2024 12:51 PM IST
How will smaller political parties impact Maharashtra assembly polls?
Key contenders have arisen from a collective disenchantment with the ruling coalition on issues like Maratha reservation, the agrarian crisis and misgovernance
Updated on Sep 03, 2024 09:14 AM IST
Congress to hold Jan Sanvad Yatra from September 3
Maharashtra Congress will hold a Jan Samvad Yatra (public interaction march) from September 3-12 to expose the failures of the state government and the Modi government. Party leaders will lead the march in different regions of the state. The aim is to address issues such as the agrarian crisis, law and order situation, rising inflation, communal harmony, and atrocities against women. The march will be held at various levels across the state, and a logo for the INDIA front may be unveiled during the third meeting in Mumbai next week.
Updated on Aug 27, 2023 12:35 AM IST
Will universal insurance help Maha's farmers this El Nino year?
The Maharashtra govt recently announced two 10,000 cr agrarian schemes. As the country braces for monsoon in an El Nino year, are the farmers shielded enough?
Published on Jun 17, 2023 05:38 PM IST
GDP data shows farmers’ incomes haven’t grown, but expenses rising
The inflation-adjusted and inflation-unadjusted farm growth rates being equal corroborate the income crisis faced by farmers, who found prices of key agricultural commodities plummeting after they produced a bumper harvest.
Updated on Jan 10, 2019 12:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Zia Haq
Monsanto patent victory on GM cotton seeds can aggravate agrarian crisis
Farm activists and environmentalists argue that Bt cotton technology affects biodiversity as well as farmers’ and consumers’ rights.
Published on Jan 09, 2019 07:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Jayashree Nandi
Modi govt close to finalising new farm insurance scheme
Agrarian distress is likely to be one of the key campaign issues in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls too.
Updated on Dec 22, 2018 11:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Zia Haq
Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik announces ₹10,000 cr assistance package for farmers
Effectively, a handout of ₹10,000 to each farmer in the state, the populist move comes ahead of assembly polls which are usually held along with the general election in the state.
Updated on Dec 22, 2018 11:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhubaneswar | Debabrata Mohanty
Had Sardar Patel been country’s first PM, farmers would not have been ruined, says Narendra Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Mod said at a rally in Mandsaur that, “The farmers would not have been ruined during the Congress’s 55-year-rule had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been the country’s first prime minister.”
Updated on Nov 24, 2018 07:48 PM IST
Mandsaur (MP) | Press Trust of India
Don’t blame farmers for being unreasonable
The problem in these sectors is rooted in a prolonged mismatch in demand and supply. If sugar mills and dairies start going bankrupt because they cannot sell sugar and milk powder, even successful institutions and mechanisms such as cooperatives for dairies and fair and remunerative prices for sugarcane are bound to lose their relevance
Published on Sep 14, 2018 01:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Roshan Kishore
Too much milk is hurting India’s already distressed dairy industry
In the past four years, milk output has grown by over 6% every year. That fact, coupled with a slump in global prices of skimmed milk powder is adding to the agrarian challenge India faces.
Farmers’ protests in Gujarat a political stunt of opposition, says CM Vijay Rupani
The chief minister said the protests by farmers in Gujarat are a political stunt of the opposition only because general elections would be held next year but refrained from naming any political party.
Updated on Jun 11, 2018 02:32 PM IST
Press Trust of India, Rajkot (Gujarat) | Press Trust of India
Rythu Bandhu scheme to be a ‘game changer’ in Telangana politics
The scheme envisages payment of ₹8,000 per acre per year to each farmer in two spells of ₹4,000 each in Kharif and Rabi seasons.
Updated on May 11, 2018 11:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Hyderabad | Srinivasa Rao Apparasu, Hyderabad