The Maharashtra government is empowering district collectors and divisional commissioners to regularize certain land rule violations. This ...

Farmer suicides saw a slight decrease in 2024. Over 10,500 individuals in the farming sector died by suicide. Maharashtra recorded the most...

The commerce ministry has updated export duty remission schedules. This aims to simplify benefits for exporters. A Basmati and Organic Trai...

India is set to boost its Basmati rice sector. APEDA will establish a new training and demonstration farm in Pilibhit. This facility will f...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu announced a Rs 40,000 per acre annual lease for a decade to farmers participating in the ...

India's flagship PM-KUSUM solar program for farmers faces significant challenges. Weak grid infrastructure, funding issues for small develo...

The Supreme Court is examining a petition demanding minimum support prices for crops be set using a weighted average cost of production acr...

In West Bengal’s Nadia district, Matua voters in border villages like Majhdia navigate a unique reality—crossing fenced borders daily to fa...

Days after the Noida International Airport's inauguration, YEIDA launched a residential plot scheme offering nearly 1,000 plots in the Yamu...

A clarification was issued stating that the renting or leasing of land by farmers for agriculture, forestry, fishing or animal husbandry wa...

As part of the agreement landowners are receiving a lump-sum amount of at least Rs 1 lakh per acre per year from the project developers for...

Consolidation of the operational land holdings could happen through land leasing," Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Arvind Panagariya said.

Under the proposed Act, leasing of land will ensure complete security of land ownership right for landowners and security of tenure for ten...

The law's thrust must shift from compulsory acquisition to leasing. This will benefit all concerned -farmers, governments and project autho...

It is neither necessary nor possible to guarantee that a land-loser would be rehabilitated as a farmer. The point is to ensure certainty of...

We urgently need out-of-thebox solutions to link land demand with supply in a way that protects disadvantaged farmers, without freezing lan...

RBI observed that if the proposed system is implemented, it will "vitiate the credit atmosphere" and will also cause diversion of banks' re...