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A Bank Employee counting the bundles of the received currency of old 1000 & 500 notes at a cash counter. (Photo: PTI)

Govt allows farmers to use old notes for buying seeds

Meanwhile, RBI said that holders of current, overdraft or cash credit accounts may now withdraw up to Rs 50,000 in cash...

21 Nov 2016 2:47 PM IST

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. (Photo: PTI)

Need to integrate mandis in country: Arun Jaitley

The Finance Minister also pushes for high-yielding crop varieties to help double farmers' income by 2022.

19 Nov 2016 6:41 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

Osmanabad and Yavatmal districts were allocated more than Rs 20 crore each by the government.

Farmer scheme funds used for ads in 2 districts

The Osmanabad district has utilised less than 50 per cent of the funds it received: out of the Rs 23 crore it got, only...

2 July 2017 1:16 AM IST

Shiv Sena MLA Gautam Chabukswar. (Photo: Facebook/Gautam Chabukswar)

Shiv Sena MLA sends 'proxy' to address drought-hit farmers

Former corporator Yashodhar Phanse posed as Shiv Sena MLA Gautam Chabukswar and visited the constituency of Chabukswar.

13 May 2017 12:45 PM 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

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI/File)

Farmers depositing money in banks will not be taxed: Modi after...

He said the announcement about ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes before Nov 8 would have defeated the very purpose of...

13 Nov 2016 8:23 PM IST

The government has approved domestic procurement of 10 lakh tonnes of pulses, comprising 5 lakh tonnes each in kharif and rabi marketing seasons.

Paddy sowing area up 6 per cent; pulses rises 23 per cent in kharif...

Total sown area as on July 7, 2017, as per reports received from states, stands at 404.27 lakh hectare.

7 July 2017 8:14 PM IST

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Maha extends waiver to farmers who took loans post 2008

Devendra Fadnavis extended the date to repay overdue of loans taken by farmers in the year 2016-17.

6 July 2017 12:30 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.

Farmers eye different crops due to low price

Centre falls victim of its own successful campaign to boost pulses output.

22 March 2017 3:27 AM IST

Many farmers switched to new genetically-engineered cotton seeds which are resistant to a deadly pest called bollworm and produced far higher yields and healthier crops with less use of pesticides.

Bitter harvest for small farmers

Despite the fact that agriculture is their primary source of livelihood, small farmers have little access to technology...

21 July 2017 1:53 AM IST

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi. (Photo: PTI)

GST plan made in haste, says Rahul Gandhi

Rahul said the Congress will fight for the farmers and put pressure on the BJP government to waive farm loans in...

20 July 2017 6:36 AM IST