Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The Union Government has released Rs 60 crore to Andhra Pradesh towards its contribution under the national crop insurance scheme for the 2011 kharif. This had been pending for a few months. “Agriculture Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana had written to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, reminding him about the pending insurance …
With just five days left for registering for the agricultural insurance, farmers who have taken land on lease are in a quandary as to whether they will be benefited anyway by the insurance for which the State Government is prepared to pay the entire premium. With prospects for samba crop …
The Union Minister of Agriculture has accorded administrative approval for the implementation of a Pilot Weather-Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBICS) for rabi 2012-13 season. As per the decision, Agriculture Insurance Company (AIC) of India Limited will be the implementing agency for the scheme for tomato crop in Solan and potato …
Criticising the State Government for neglecting the farmers and agriculture sector, the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) on Monday demanded that families of farmers committing suicide should be given compensation of Rs 20 lakh and a job each. The Congress will sign memoranda of understanding (MoUs) with farmers’ associations on …
Tobacco export from India had increased 27.6 per cent during 2012, compared to 2011 Tobacco will become the first cash crop in the country to be covered by crop insurance in the country. Tobacco growers, chiefly in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh where the finest quality of tobacco is grown, will …
The State Government has decided to reiterate its demand for payment of crop insurance to farmers of 603 gram panchayats whose crops were damaged in natural calamities last year. Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Surya Narayan Patro and Rural Development Minister Bikram Keshari Arukh will take up the matter with …
The state government will spend a Rs 23 as premium to insure crops of 137 lakh farmers in the state, the state government's agricultural department said here on Friday. An official at the divisional agricultural office here said that a sum of Rs 3151 lakh has been already been provided …
The Chhattisgarh government has decided to waive off farm loan of around 90,000 farmers in the state who had failed to repay the amount due to poor agriculture yield. The farmers, who had taken loan during the period 1991 and 1997 from different cooperative and rural banks, would heave a …
Farmers in Odisha affected by last year's drought and floods would get compensation of Rs 657.32 crore as crop insurance. The state government on Wednesday sanctioned Rs 277.72 crore towards state's share. About 571,000 affected farmers would get the benefit. "As the state government had considered panchayat as a unit …
It emphasises growing less water-intensive crops, fodder during low rainfall and soil testing The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) has come up with a contingency crop plan for southern Karnataka to tackle drought. UAS Vice-Chancellor Dr K Narayana Gowda said the contingency crop plan submitted to the State government lays …
Monsoon may have brought some relief to the coastal districts but the farmers of western Odisha continue to suffer from a drought-like situation. Kharif cultivation is yet to pick up momentum in Kalahandi district where hundreds of farmers still await drought assistance and crop insurance. Lok Sabha member Bhakta Das …
Chandigarh: The Law Commission has prepared a draft Bill called “Farmers and Agriculture Labour Welfare Cess”. Amarjit Singh, member of the commission, says the draft will be on the commission's site soon. During an interaction session at the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) here, Amarjit Singh …
Heavy rush coupled with slow speed of computers at the taluk office to obtain land records, took a toll on the patience of thousands of farmers, who staged snap protests on Wednesday night and on Thursday morning on BM Road in Hassan. Farmers demanded that the taluk office officials speed …
Food insecurity refers to both the inability to secure an adequate diet today and the risk of being unable to do so in the future. Social protection is a menu of policy instruments that addresses poverty and vulnerability, through social assistance, social insurance and efforts at social inclusion. Social protection …
When Dr N H Ravindranath, a senior scientist from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, addressed Himachal Pradesh’s top bureaucrats and policy makers here a couple of years ago, his warnings about the adverse impact of climate change in the hills, especially the farming sectors, had left many stunned. Himachal …
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Thursday approved a proposed five-year farm bill that seeks to make steep cuts to subsidies while expanding government crop-insurance programs. The proposal met sharp resistance from lawmakers in Southern states, who say it goes too far in peeling back billions of dollars in subsidies that …
The federal government could save about $1 billion a year by reducing the subsidies it pays to large farmers to cover much of the cost of their crop insurance, according to a report by Congressional auditors due to be released on Thursday. The report raised the prospect of the government’s …
SAMBALPUR: Resentment is brewing among the farmers of Sambalpur district after the State Government excluded it from the drought-hit districts’ list. Despite the fact that large tracts of agricultural land are under Hirakud Command Area, there is no denying that in the last kharif season untimely rains and pest attacks …
New scheme to include crop and price protection will encourage farmers to buy insurance products The government proposes to roll out an integrated farmer security plan by reworking insurance schemes and consolidating all other risk management schemes to benefit farmers at large. According to the new plan, crop insurance, price …
GUWAHATI: Farmers across India have been making claims for crop losses under the central government’s National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS). However, the farmers in the northeastern states, mainly in Assam, are not even aware any such scheme exists, said an expert. K.M. Buzarbaruah, vice chancellor of the Jorhat-based Assam Agricultural …
