Tag: Farmer

Chandigarh:Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday announced waiver of interest and penalty on certain crop loans and did not hike taxes as he presented a Rs 1.89 lakh crore budget for 2024-25 financial year. While announcing the budget proposals at a time when farmers have intensified their ...

Chandigarh: A day after a meeting with Union ministers, farmer leaders taking part in the ‘Delhi Chalo’ agitation on Monday rejected the Centre’s proposal of procuring five crops at MSP, saying it wasn’t in farmers’ interest and announced that they will march towards the national capital on February 21.Earlier, ...

Commissioner Secretary Cooperative Yasha Mudgal chairing a meeting on Tuesday. Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Jan 2: Commissi-oner Secretary Cooperative and Mission Director, Holistic Agriculture Development Production (HADP), Yasha Mudgal, today had a comprehensive review of working of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs).Yasha Mudgal assessed the impact of FPOs in fostering economic ...

NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha has been accused of several sweeping allegations in a first information report filed against him on August 17. He was arrested on Tuesday along with NewsClick’s human resources head, Amit Chakraborty, after unprecedented raids by the Delhi Police on over 40 staffers and ...

The government is giving Rs 6.5 lakh crore to the agriculture sector every year with each farmer getting a benefit of Rs 50,000 annually in one form or the other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday while asserting it's "Modi's guarantee" and not just a promise. ...

A farmer from Pakistan has sought seeds of newly developed 'Malviya Manila Sinchit Dhan-1' paddy variety for cultivation from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU).Claiming to be a "progressive farmer" from Pakistan, one Rizwan contacted Banaras Hindu University (BHU) scientist Prof S.K. Singh on WhatsApp, requesting him to provide the ...

BELAGAVI (K’taka), Feb 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the 13th instalment of over Rs 16,000 crore, under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), through direct benefit transfer to more than eight crore beneficiaries.Under the scheme, eligible farmer families are provided Rs 6,000 per year in ...

A farmer from Maharashtra's Solapur was in for a rude shock when he got to know that he has earned a profit of merely Rs 2.49 against the sale of his 512 kg onions to a trader in the district. Published Date - 05:47 PM, Fri - 24 February ...

A farmer in the northern Indian state of Punjab is getting his house moved 152.4m (500 ft) away from its original spot because it's in the way of an expressway.The expressway connects the national capital Delhi with the Jammu and Kashmir region 670km (420 miles away).Sukhwinder Singh spent around ...

Kashmiri Pandit farmer shot dead, brother injured in Shopian village LG, Abdullahs, Mehbooba, Sajad condemn attack  Shopian, Aug 16: A farmer belonging to Kashmiri Pandit native family was shot dead, while his brother was injured in Chotigam area of Shopian district on Tuesday, officials said here. An official told that ...