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 Prime Minister has written a letter to Kheemanand thanking him for sharing his valuable thoughts.
The suspension of internet services at the Singhu border is another reason why the protesters are angry, especially the youth.
As per the reports, before his death, he told his friends that he hoped his death would bring success to the farmers' movement.
Both, the farmers' bodies handed over memorandum in support of new farm laws to the Minister.
'The farmers said the amount was too much, following which the police station in-charge gave another report and they were asked to submit personal bonds of Rs 50,000 each,' according to Subdivisional Magistrate Deependra Yadav.
