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.
The humiliation meted out to farmers by police who treat them as petty criminals even as Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao claims that his government was farmer-friendly drew widespread condemnation from farmers’ organisations and the Opposition Congress.
Apart from focusing on increasing the income of the farmers, the Uttar Pradesh government also plans to establish them as 'entrepreneurs'. This will not only increase their income but also provide more employment opportunities to the youth.
The RKPA has also implored the government to not get swayed by the anti-farmers lobby and have requested the Chief Ministers of all 28 states and 9 Administrators to ensure execution of the reform in their respective states
The farmer was admitted to the Malda Medical College and Hospital in critical condition. The bank authorities and the family of the injured farmer, both have lodged written complaints at the police stations concerned.
The Congress General Secretary spent around 40 minutes and assured the family that she would not only raise the issue at appropriate forum but would also help in whichever way she could.
