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

Govt must act as fall in prices hurts farmers

The Centre's silence is alarming, specially since the government expects the farmer's income to double by 2022.

15 July 2017 2:13 AM IST

BJP President Amit Shah addresses the media in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Amit Shah hails Modi for uplifting the poor

Amit Shah said the mandate was people's blessings to Mr Modi and the BJP.

13 July 2017 6:52 AM IST

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