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24 per cent higher allocation for agriculture, Rs 1 lakh crore hike in credit target.

Food and farming: Two futures

The slogan was that there would never again be scarcity of food because we can now make bread from air .

12 July 2017 2:37 AM IST

Radhika, 14 and Kunti, 11, pulling plough with their father in Basantpur Pangri village of Madhya Pradesh. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

No money to buy bulls: MP farmer who made his daughters plough field

Sardar Kahla claimed that his family does not have enough money to buy or take care of oxen for ploughing.

9 July 2017 12:37 PM IST

Home Minister Rajnath Singh addresses during a function to honour the families of martyrs of security forces at Kathua, Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

Farmers have bright future, income to double by 2022: Rajnath

The union home minister termed the agriculture sector as a sunrise industry with ample growth opportunity.

18 March 2017 3:23 PM IST

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis addresses at an election campaign rally in Thane. (Photo: AP)

Investment in agriculture, not loan waiver, solution to farmers'...

The Chief Minister said almost 16,000 farmers committed suicide in spite of the loan waiver in five years.

16 March 2017 8:54 PM IST

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao.

Telangana CM to introduce special agri buget from 2018

He decided to have training programmes for farmers from the village to state level with new, modern scientific...

3 July 2017 9:48 AM IST

At current costs of cultivation and prices, agriculture has lost much of its sheen and looks jaded.

Agriculture's 1991-moment

Agriculture has been ill-served by the indifference of the Establishment for the last at least 40 years.

2 July 2017 6:31 AM IST

A farmer standing beside a heap of rotten carrots harvested in his fields.

Farmers in a stew, leave vegetables to rot in Bhopal

The cash-crunch caused by the measure had led to the closure of the government-run mandi for a week from November 8.

16 Nov 2016 4:16 AM IST

Farmers pouring milk in protest for farm loan waiver. (Photo; Twitter | ANI)

Gujarat: Farmers waste massive amounts of milk demanding loan waiver

Dairy farmers led by Kshatriya Thakor Sena poured down over hundred litres of milk on the SG Highway demanding loan...

5 July 2017 3:11 PM IST

The situation in the state remained tense after a couple of days of Mandsaur incident where five farmers were killed in police firing. (Photo: PTI)

Farmers' outfit to take out rally to Delhi from Mandsaur

On July 18, the rally will reach Delhi where farmers will hold a protest in front of Parliament.

5 July 2017 1:33 PM IST

Local prices for oilseeds have plunged around 40 per cent in the last six months, while pulses have dropped by nearly a third.

Bumper crop of pulses expected, still short of demand

Govt says country will take two to three years to become self-sufficient in production of pulses.

24 March 2017 6:23 PM IST

Union Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley addressing a press conference at the party office in Lucknow. (Photo: PTI)

No tax on farm or agriculture income: Arun Jaitley

Finance Minister says govt targeted Rs 9.8 lakh cr in direct tax and Rs 9.25 lakh cr in indirect tax collections.

22 March 2017 5:10 PM IST

Jallikattu is more than just a tradition

Jallikattu is more than just a tradition'

It is something their family and ancestors have a strong connect with.

13 Jan 2017 12:24 AM IST