Bombay High Court directs banks to disburse crop loans, return interest to farmers

Banks had not released loans to farmers over non-payment of interest on previous loans despite the government waiving them.

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· Oct 19, 2020 · 04:16 pm

Maharashtra farmers rely on private moneylenders as crop loan disbursal takes a hit amid Covid-19

This is the third consecutive year when farmers in the state have struggled to access credit, suggests data.

Parth MN, IndiaSpend.com

· Sep 22, 2020 · 07:30 pm

‘Why were protesting farmers not allowed to enter Delhi?’ asks Priyanka Gandhi

The Congress leader claimed the BJP talks of welfare of farmers before elections but does not allow them to speak when they want to raise their problems.

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· Sep 21, 2019 · 08:40 pm

Thousands of farmers march to Delhi, demand sugarcane dues, loan waiver and free power

The farmers, who are protesting under the banner of the Rashtriya Kisan Sangh, started their march from Noida’s Transport Nagar on Saturday morning.

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· Sep 21, 2019 · 12:14 pm

Feeling neglected by politicians, widows of Punjab farmers put up their own candidate in Bathinda

Veerpal Kaur of the Kisaan Mazdoor Khudkhushi Peedit Parivar Committee is contesting against Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

Mayank Aggarwal

· May 19, 2019 · 07:30 pm

‘All parties treat farmers like beggars’: Punjab’s agriculture workers have no hope from elections

Recent farm loan waivers and income support schemes have had little impact amid growing agrarian distress.

Manu Moudgil

· Apr 02, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Loan waiver is not a solution to farm distress, helps only a fraction of farmers, says NITI Aayog

Vice Chairperson Rajiv Kumar said that no government had worked for farmers as much as the current one led by Narendra Modi.

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· Dec 19, 2018 · 06:59 pm

Pink bollworm pests reach Maharashtra’s Yavatmal early this year, adding to farmers’ distress

Multiple measures like pheromone and light traps, multi-cropping and changing cropping seasons have been initiated.

Meena Menon

· Aug 31, 2018 · 09:30 pm

Farmers from Nashik reach Mumbai, to protest outside Maharashtra Assembly from Monday

Their demands include better safeguards, and a complete waiver of loans and electricity bills.

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· Mar 11, 2018 · 11:34 am

Maharashtra: Nearly 25,000 farmers march from Nashik to Mumbai to demand loan waiver

Led by the All India Kisan Sabha, the protestors are planning to protest at the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha on Monday.

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· Mar 09, 2018 · 10:55 am

The tobacco industry is wooing farmers in Africa with false promises of prosperity

How true is Big Tobacco’s claim that tobacco growing is essential to the livelihoods of millions of small-scale rural farmers?

Raphael Lencucha, The Conversation

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Ronald Labonte, The Conversation

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Donald Makoka, The Conversation

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Jeffrey Drope, The Conversation

· Jan 03, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Drought and now pest attacks: Double danger stalks Odisha’s rice fields, its farming mainstay

A severe shortage of government-distributed pesticides aggravated the crop loss from attacks by brown planthoppers.

Priya Ranjan Sahu

· Nov 13, 2017 · 09:00 am