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.
A 55-year-old farmer ended his life following crop loss due to failure of rain in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka on Monday.
A 50-year-old farmer committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh after allegedly facing harassment from the moneylenders. The incident occurred in Nimni…
A farmer and teacher, Rakshyakar Bhoi, in Odisha’s Kalahandi district has claimed that he has grown ‘Miyazaki’, world's most expensive variety of mango, in his orchard.
A 31-year-old Sikh farmer, who died while trying to save an eight-year-old girl in California in 2020, has been bestowed with the Carnegie Hero Award, North America’s highest honor for civilian heroism.
Interacting with beneficiaries of mini and hi-tech dairies of the Animal Husbandry Department through audio conferencing as part of the ‘CM ki Vishesh Charcha’ programme today, the CM said dairy schemes are being run by the state government to enable the small farmers and youth in rural areas to start their own ventures.
