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For weeks, farmers across Telangana have been guarding tarpaulin-covered heaps of paddy under the open sky, anxiously watching the occasional dark clouds as procurement delays stretch on. An untimely spell of rain can soak their grain overnight while prolonged delays in procurement are draining farmers financially through mounting labour and transport costs. With the next…
Crediting Rythu Bandhu at ₹5,000 every acre into the accounts of these farmers is likely to require in excess of ₹2,000 crore. File The State Government has decided to raise ₹3,000 crore market borrowings through auction of securities from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The State Government has submitted an indent for raising the…
Union Minister Anurag Thakur addresses the media during cabinet briefing, in New Delhi, on October 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a ₹22,303 crore subsidy on P&K fertilisers for the current Rabi season to ensure farmers continue to get soil nutrients at reasonable rates despite high global…
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A trader checking the quality of wheat at the wholesale grain mandi at Najafgarh, in New Delhi. File photo. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Wheat has been sown in 54,000 hectare so far in the ongoing rabi (winter) season of the 2022-23 crop year, 59 per cent higher than 34,000 hectare in the year-ago period, according to the…
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