Mizoram chief minister Lalduhoma has launched the Handholding Scheme, introducing a Minimum Support Price for Ginger, Broom, Turmeric, and ...

An injunction has been filed against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) leader and Prime Minister Modi Narendr...

The Congress leader said, "If MNREGA is a free 'Rewari' for the government, then why not the reduction in the corporate tax rates announced...

Dewan Housing will offer banks new loan pools as security for the funds.

The distress which is the basis of loan waiver is not defined, but based on a sweeping generalisation.

Congress will ensure a Minimum Income Guarantee for every poor person, to help eradicate poverty, he said.

State Government, he told media persons, has an exclusive team working with public sector banks, and has been pursuing them for the databas...

Addressing an event in Mumbai in the morning, Naidu said seeking loan waivers had become a "fashion" now but it was not the final solution ...

is of the opinion that a Yogi Adityanath-type waiver will not actually benefit poor farmers and only a handful of moderately-rich farmers w...

Millions of tenant farmers don’t have access to zero interest crop loans or relief packages. Loan eligibility cards for tenant farmers — is...

India has raised the import tax on sugar to 40% from 25% to help prop up falling local prices and protect local farmers who have not been p...

Finance ministry will increase the agriculture lending target by around 25% in budget 2012 despite an increase in non-performing loans.

43.42 mn farmer households constituting 48.6% are reported to be indebted to either formal or informal or both sources of credit

The sugar cane crushing season is about to get over in Maharashtra and there are arrears of over a month to be paid to cane farmers.

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...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said his government would do everything to help debt- ridden farmers, for whom it is considering a loan...

Finance minister P Chidambaram unveiled a 'policy package' on Friday to enhance flow of credit to the farm sector by liberalising eligibili...