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Photo used for representation purpose only. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar Only about half of the intended beneficiaries of farm loan waivers announced by nine States since 2014, have actually received debt write-offs, as per a study by State Bank of India’s researchers. As of March 2022, the poorest implementation of farm loan…
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah. File | Photo Credit: PTI i Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday urged Agricultural and Rural Development Banks (ARDBs) to extend more long-terms loans to the agriculture sector, including for irrigation projects and other infrastructure. Cooperative banks should focus on providing loans for increasing the irrigated land in the country,…
The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh urges the government to frame long-term export and import policies that are in the interests of farmers. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s (RSS) farmers’ group, criticised the Centre’s export and import policies. The BKS urged the government to frame long-term export and import…
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RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat. File | Photo Credit: PTI RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on June 20 laid importance on organic- and ancient methods of farming and said it would be wrong to reject such local knowledge as unscientific without examining them. He was speaking at the annual ‘Convocation-cum-Scientific Convention’ jointly organised by National Academy of…
Workers carry sacks of wheat for sifting at a grain mill on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, May 16, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters The UAE has ordered a suspension of exports and re-exports of wheat and wheat flour originating from India for four months, the Gulf nation’s ministry of economy said on Wednesday. The…
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India is the largest producer and . Till April this year, India produced 340 lakh tonnes of sugar, a 14% increase from the previous year.second-largest exporter of sugar after Brazil In the last five years, India’s sugar exports have seen a 200 times increase. Yet, for the first time in six years, India has announced…
Supply trucks loaded with wheat wait for unloading at a port in Kandla, in the western state of Gujarat, India, May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. | Photo Credit: Reuters The price of wheat has jumped in the international markets after India announced a ban on the export of the staple cereal and…
The story so far: A fortnight after it banned wheat exports, India announced restrictions on the export of sugar to keep a lid on prices in the domestic market. This is the first time in six years that the Centre has placed a restriction on sugar exports. In an order issued by the Directorate of General…
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The story so far: The Centre recently released a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), or a set of guidelines, for the smooth implementation of its rice fortification distribution scheme, days after a fact-finding team alleged that fortified rice was being distributed in Jharkhand without the consent of beneficiaries. In a report published on May 16, a…
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Labourers loading wheat at APMC wholesale market outskirts of Ahmedabad on May 17, 2022. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji The Centre has amended its wheat export ban order of May 13 to allow export consignments that were registered in the Customs Department’s systems and handed over for examination on or prior to May 13 to…