Tag: farmer suicides
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Mamata Banerjee denies there have been farmer suicides in the state
Miss Banerjee said that the entire farming community, irrespective of their category, farm labourers and farmers alike, would benefit from the Krishak Bandhu scheme as it entails government aid of Rs 5000 per acre annually. This would be given to the farmers in two instalments.
July 4, 2019 -
Seeds of despair
If one looks at the numbers across the board, it is clear that farmers across the globe have been denied fair incomes in a bid to keep food costs down
January 7, 2019 -
Centre has no data on number of farmer suicides since 2016, Parliament told
The number of farmer suicides was 3,097 in 2015 and 1,163 in 2014, as per the data placed in the House.
December 20, 2018 -
Farmers’ voice
Truth to tell though, no one really shares the farmer’s joyless existence, even if there is something enduring about the image of an urban three-year-old juggling bottles of water that she is taking to the fatigued farmers at Ramlila maidan.
December 7, 2018 -
Farmers march to Bhubaneswar over pension demand, suicides; section 144 imposed
The NNKS said it will withdraw the march to Bhubaneswar only if the government, by 11 am Monday, announces a Farmer Welfare Fund with a corpus.
November 5, 2018 -
639 farmers ended lives in Maharashtra between March and May this year: Govt
Of these 639 farmers, 188 were declared eligible for compensation, based on the criteria of crop failure and their failure to repay loans
July 14, 2018 -
Farmer Suicides: Punjab CM seeks Centre’s one-time debt relief for farming
With continued debt stress, the number of farmers' suicides is increasing and there is widespread resentment amongst them, said the CM, stressing the need for immediate attention to the issue by the Central government.
May 17, 2018 -
Indians do well abroad due to low interest on loans: V K Singh
The people who go abroad do well due to low interest rates on loans which help them to take forward their ideas and opportunities, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh said on Wednesday. He was addressing a gathering of bankers here, as part of a promotion campaign of MUDRA (Micro Units Development …
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October 11, 2017