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Read more about Success story: How 2 FPOs are rewriting the fate of tribal Odisha farmers on Business Standard. They have dispensed with middleman, get better crop prices ....
The Yaas-induced rain has damaged standing rabi paddy crops over large tracts of land in Sambalpur district. The district reported 55.49 mm rainfall i ....
The Odisha Government on Thursday transferred Rs 693.94 crore to the bank accounts of 34 lakh farmers under its flagship Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme, said the Chief Minister s office. Chief Minister Patnaik said, The KALIA Yojana is one of our most important farmer welfare programmes. On Thursday about Rs 700 crore has been deposited in the bank accounts of around 36 lakh farmers under the Kalia scheme. It s heartening that this scheme is having an impact on the lives and livelihood of more than 36 lakh farmers in the state as well as more than 17 lakh landless poor. KALIA is the only scheme in the country which also helps landless poor along with the small and marginalised farmers, he said. ....
New Farm Laws Will Destroy Livelihood Of Odisha Farmers More than 90 per cent of farmers in Odisha belong to the small and marginal categories who will prefer their produces to be sold at their doorsteps. outlookindia.com 2021-03-17T08:01:28+05:30 Rabindra Senapati, a farmer from Puri district of Odisha has little more than three acres of land. He does not know about the three new farm laws in place, but his basics are clear. “If the new laws provide us with the option of selling our crops in a distant place at a better price, it bears no meaning for us. We are small farmers. We cannot take our small produce to distant cities to sell to a private player who may offer a better price than the minimum support price (MSP) that the government pays us. How shall we arrange vehicles to transport? Uncertainties are involved in such an arrangement. Once we park our paddy at their places, we are at their mercy. We do not know what type of bargain they would make ....