Monsoon Reckoning
The weakest link in Indian agriculture has never been the farmer. It has been the country's enduring dependence on a monsoon that is becoming increasingly unpredictable.
The weakest link in Indian agriculture has never been the farmer. It has been the country's enduring dependence on a monsoon that is becoming increasingly unpredictable.
Jha, in his letter, urged the CM to provide immediate assistance to the farmers of Burari assembly constituency whose crops were destroyed due to rising water level of Yamuna river, and informed her that the continuous rise in the river's water level has also resulted in water-logging, due to which a large section of farmers’ crops in Burari constituency were submerged, and got damaged.
Dr Mohan Yadav’s came a day after scores of irate farmers resorted to road blockade for an hour on a highway in the Sagar district complaining of non availability of fertilizers.
The government on Wednesday okayed the modernisation of command area development and water management (M-CADWM) as a sub-scheme of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) with an initial total outlay of Rs 1,600 crore in FY26.
Adopting a considerate approach towards farmers, the Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann-led AAP government here has decided to immediately release 450 more farmers from police detention.
He said the lab-to-land gap between science and farmers has to be reduced. ''We are continuously making efforts to ensure timely delivery of correct information from scientists to farmers. Krishi Vigyan Kendra is also making many efforts in this direction,'' he added.
He said that another team has also been sent to Nellore region of Andhra Pradesh to nab those who indulged in violence.
In a post on 'X', he said appropriate legal proceedings will be done against those responsible in this matter.
The meeting between the farmer union leaders and the government ended in a stalemate on Monday with no common ground in sight.
A 35-year-old farmer was critically injured allegedly after being shot at by unidentified men in Athaula village of Punjab's Jalandhar district on Sunday, police said.
