Farmers protest annually for fair prices and wages. Minimum Support Price and its impact on various crops are key issues. Small farmers str...

The Telangana government has announced a farm loan waiver of up to Rs 2 lakh, benefiting nearly 40 lakh farmers at a cost of around Rs 31,0...

The government will pay off loans to the tune of Rs 590 crore of 285,325 members of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS), ...

While Punjab is not new to the tension between India-Pakistan, the changed narrative allows the Congress to sell its pre-poll plank of debt...

One of the reasons for Congress winning the Assembly elections in these five states is said to be its promise of a farm loan waiver that ga...

Launching a scathing attack on PM Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi said that the PM is working in the interest of few industrialists and has wai...

The chief minister said that so far 2,77,633 marginal farmers were provided relief to the tune of Rs 1,525.61 crore in the first phase.

The debt waiver scheme, announced by the Punjab government in June 2017, is likely to further increase NPAs in agriculture advances.

Farmers are seeking loan waiver of all loans, MSP according to Swaminathan Committee report, land rights to tenants among other demands.

Banks also asked the state government to announce the cut-off date till which the debt waiver benefit will be available to eligible growers.

In the meeting, the panel is expected to seek suggestions from us regarding the implementation of debt waiver scheme of the state governmen...

The loan waiver will for up to Rs 2 lakh for small and marginal farmers (up to 5 acres) and a flat Rs 2 lakh relief for all other marginal ...

Officials in Maharashtra and Punjab believe that if their masters go for a loan waiver, then it will put the finances of the states in a pr...

Amarinder claimed that the Badals, including Sukhbir and Harsimrat Kaur Badal, are “frustrated and desperate as they have failed to do anyt...

A Congress functionary told ET that Congress has already collected 22 lakh Kisan Mangpatras in the last 10 days from farmers in Punjab, pro...

Centre's debt waiver scheme has achieved little in getting farmers fresh loans.

Even before the modalities on the planned distribution of farm loan waivers could be announced, a political tug-of-war has started between ...