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.
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
The number of farmer suicides was 3,097 in 2015 and 1,163 in 2014, as per the data placed in the House.
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.
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.
Of these 639 farmers, 188 were declared eligible for compensation, based on the criteria of crop failure and their failure to repay loans
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.
The people who go abroad do well due to low interest rates on loans which help them to take forward…
