India's scorching summers strain power grids, forcing costly upgrades. While cities like Nagpur manage peak demand with advanced cooling, m...

One year after the launch of Operation Sindoor, India has opted to keep the Indus Water Treaty suspended, marking a pivotal shift in its po...

The central government has approved the purchase of sunflower seed from Karnataka for the 2026 rabi season. This move ensures farmers recei...

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has approved the procurement of Kharif pulses and oilseeds from Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. The c...

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced that the government is planning a model to enable farmers to sell their produce direct...

This is for the second time that the state government extended the deadline, in view of the keen interest shown by the farmers, said an off...

"Farmers in the village are forced to visit a bank branch or ATMs, which are scarce in rural pockets, to withdraw the money of the Kisan Sa...

“We have ensured that there is no shortage of TOP (tomato, onion and potato) in any state. There is no scarcity of these three essential ho...

In 2017-18, 44 lakh farmers got the maximum benefit of the loan waiver while the 89 lakh farmers availed of crop loans in that year. The st...

This also implies that the farmers repaying promptly would get short-term loans at the rate of 4 per cent per annum during 2018-19 and 2019...

Already states including Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab have announced loan waiver.

As per the scheme, the government will write off 25 per cent loan of farmers up to a maximum of Rs 25,000 of all farm debts, Assam Governme...

SBI said it expects to cover 10 lakh farmers through nearly 14,000 rural and semi-urban branches across the country in this Kisan Mela, to ...

Records show that just 10 lakh of the total targeted 86 lakh debt-ridden farmers in the state could get the maximum benefit of Rs 1 lakh as...

The Prime Minister said e-agri market is a "turning point" in the farm sector which will benefit not only farmers but also traders and cons...

The government has approved the implementation of 2 per cent interest subvention scheme for the year 2015-16 for short term crop loans upto...

Patnaik asked the Centre to extend the cut off date for crop insurance for non-loanee farmers under the NAIS during Kharif-2015 crop season.