Govt sets up Digital Centre in Delhi to empower farmers across India
The Command Centre will show all the digital innovations being made in the field of agriculture by the ministry on a big screen.
The Command Centre will show all the digital innovations being made in the field of agriculture by the ministry on a big screen.
On March 10, the leaders gave the call for a 12 pm-to-4 pm "Rail Roko", and asked all the farmers to be a part of the event.
Of this, Rs 1.75 lakh crore was transferred to eligible farmers during the COVI-19 period alone, it said.
The farmers parked their tractors on the side of highways and demanded to exclude agriculture from the WTO agreement and implement a law to guarantee minimum support price (MSP).
The farmer leader condemned the Central Government's action against the protestors through para-military forces injuring hundreds.
Several challenges such as climate change, high food quality standards, and an increasing need for making agriculture sustainable, are making supply chain management a taxing process for the entire agriculture landscape.
Farmers, with the help of agricultural experts going in for fruits, that have a lot of medicinal value and can be grown in the prevailing climatic conditions of Bundelkhand.
Apart from revoking the farm laws, the farmers are demanding a legal guarantee for the procurement of crops at Minimum Support Price (MSP) but the government says it is ready to bring about amendments in these laws.
When the court was toying with the idea of a committee, CJI SA Bobde said it could include experts like Magsaysay award winner P Sainath, hinting that the panel would be balanced. All the four members the court selected had expressed in public their support to implement the three contentious laws.
On being asked about the committee set up by the Supreme Court to resolve the farmers' issue, he said that the farmers are demanding the repeal of the three laws so they have refused to appear before the committee adding that the Central government had also suggested a solution by forming a committee which was unanimously rejected by all the farmers’ organisations.
