PM Kisan Yojana: How to get free credit card, know application process - After linking the Kisan Credit Card to PM Kisan Yojana, the Modi government had announced the issuance of Kisan Credit Card to 2.5 crore farmers.
Due to lack of irrigation facilities, thousands of small tea growers may end up with heavy losses for the second successive year.
GUWAHATI: Scarcity of rain has severely hit production of small tea growers (STGs) in upper Assam, who have been contributing to about half of the state’s tea production. Due to lack of irrigation facilities, thousands of STGs may end up with heavy losses for the second successive year. They lost the valuable first and second flush last year due to the lockdown.
Leading organic small tea grower Achyut Prasad Gogoi, the owner of Punjoy Organic Tea Plantation and Production, has bestowed all hope on the ‘rain god’ and has been sky-gazing for some showers. Several districts like Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Tinsukia and Golaghat, which are producing a vital share of the state’s total tea production, are facing severe drought conditions, as there is hardly any impactable rain in the last 25 days. If there is no rain in the next seven days, Gogoi said there wi
A mix of steps taken by the Mamata Banerjee government has helped potato farmers in Bengal hold onto their produce till they get a fair price without falling into the trap of moneylenders or going for distress sale.
With large sections of the state’s 15 lakh-odd potato farmers welcoming the initiatives of the government, such as buying stocks from peasants and issuing Kisan Credit Cards, the Trinamul Congress is hoping to reap dividends in the Assembly elections in the potato belt of Hooghly, East Burdwan, Birbhum, West Midnapore and parts of Murshidabad.
At a time when Bengal’s cold storages are brimming with potatoes following a bumper crop, reports have reached the state government that 70 per cent of these stocks are owned by farmers themselves. This means that the majority of the farmers did not have to sell their produce to middlemen from the field itself.
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In Rajasthanâs Pipad, Kisan Mahapanchayat Strikes a Deep ChordÂ
In his speeches in Pipad, farm leader Rakesh Tikait speaks of an upcoming Hal Kranti , one that he claims is needed to resist the corporate takeover of Indian agriculture.
Farmers leader Rakesh Tikait during a Kisan Mahapanchayat in Pipad, Rajasthan, on March 12. Photo: Indra Shekhar Singh
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Pipad, Rajasthan, is usually a quiet place with fallow lands, parched salty soils and a blooming mining industry, which often operates in a legally grey zone.
In an hour’s drive from Jodhpur, one catches glimpses of both thorny bamboos and extraordinary human resilience.