View: BJP courts angry farmersGoals such as doubling farmers’ incomes or raising farm output are laudable, but call for sound policy action and investment.
View: Direct income support for farmers in Budget 2019- An idea whose time has comeThe interest subvention announced for farmers in the animal husbandry and fisheries sector needs clarity.
Rahul Gandhi hints at nationwide farm loan waiverRahul Gandhi said the Congress respected farmers as they were assets of the country, ‘unlike Narendra Modi who considers them as liabilitie...
Loan waivers unburden farmers, burden economy: RBI reportFarm loan waivers have become the centre of debate in policy making circles with state after state going for the populist measure to lure v...
Working to ensure that farmers who don't own land get agriculture loans: PM ModiThe PM said crop residue burning has harmful effects, and if the crop residue is instead returned to the soil through machines, it will hav...
Farmers reach Mumbai, plan to gherao Assembly todayUunder the banner of Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha (ABKS), a CPM- affiliated an outfit, the farmers seek complete waiver of loans and power d...
Punjab Cabinet approves crop loan waiverThe crop loan waiver scheme, based on the recommendations of an expert group headed by eminent economist Dr. T. Haque, will directly benefi...
Foreign bankers rush for `priority' tag on loansExport credit, which has been classified as priority sector so far, will cease to be within the ambit of that sector.
Telangana govt peeved with ‘hostile’ bankers on farm loan waiverSenior ministers of the TRS government are worried that the antagonistic attitude of bankers could adversely dent the image of their govern...
Banks in Odisha to deliver loans on farmers' doorstepsThe Centre has provided Rs 6 crore, at the rate of Rs 30 lakh for each vehicle, to agriculture department under Rashtriya Krishi Bikas Yoja...
Don't ignore farmers' plight: Rahul Gandhi to PM Narendra Modi, CM Parkash Singh Badal"Farmers in our country are in deep distress. I urge the Modi-Badal Govt to take action & not continue to ignore their plight," he tweeted.
Don't ignore farmers' plight: Rahul Gandhi to PM Narendra Modi, Parkash Singh BadalRahul Gandhi today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal not to "ignore" the plight of farmers a...
Budget 2013: Stimulus required for agriculture warehousing & cold chain infrastructureCold chain infrastructure will require government support in a big way to make it commercially viable.
Farm financing may decline sharply on revised priority sector lending normsThe norms for agri finance under PSL segment as revised by RBI on 20 July 2012 are expected to lead to a huge decline in lending to agri se...
Union Budget 2011: Food processing sector welcomes Pranab Mukherjee's moveIncentives for the creation of cold storage chains, the focus on warehousing facility and the decision to set up mega food parks were widel...
- Rallis, SBI to fund group farming projects on pulses
Farmers of Pudukkottai district in Tamil Nadu are going to be a part of a unique pilot project that aims to boost the cultivation of pulses...
- Farm loan waiver via cash, bonds
Government plans to fund Rs 60,000-crore farm package through tax revenues, non-tax capital receipts or borrowings. Impact of budget on inv...