Order of the National Green Tribunal (Eastern Zone Bench, Kolkata) in the matter of Nabin Kisan Vs State of Odisha & Others dated 15/05/2025. The matter related to discharge of wastewater by the municipality of Belpahar on the applicants land. The affidavit filed by the District Magistrate, Jharsuguda, May 14, …
The small farmer might be the solution to the ongoing crisis in the farming sector in India. Policies need to be geared towards helping small farmers perform agricultural operations and marketing their products with greater efficiency. Instead, current policies are hoping to dispossess farmers of their livelihood and push them …
The Zimbabwean government has reclaimed about 1,450 farms from resettled farmers, also known as A2 farmers, after a recent land audit revealed that the new farmers were not using their farms productively. Talking to the state-owned newspaper Herald, the land reform and resettlement minister, Didymus Mutasa, said "his ministry is …
by the time a copy of this magazine reaches you, the finance minister would would have presented the Union Budget in Parliament. The details of the Rs 32,000-crore debt relief package
Loan-waiver or one-time settlement for the farm sector is not something new or a unique step taken for the farm sector in this year's Central budget. India is known for going soft on defaulters in other sectors too. There is precedence of one-time settlement (OTS) for small industries and even …
When economist Carl Pray heard about plans for the first international assessment of agricultural research, a gold standard sprang to mind: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But things didn't turn out the way he expected.
FARMERS in the Barind area are now using fallow land to cultivate chickpea. The high Barind land used to remain fallow after aman harvest. According to farmers and officials concerned, around one lakh hectares of land would always remain fallow in the region, which are being brought under chickpea cultivation. …
Thursday was Congress member Rahul Gandhi's day in Parliament. After being at the centre of a row for much of zero hour in the Lok Sabha, he provided the headlines, seeking flexibility in the norms for farm loan waiver announced in the budget and raising expectations of a favourable decision …
For the past three decades, more investment has been made for crop technology than for building infrastructure to store and market food products. The recent loan waiver for indebted farmers
Authorisation sought for additional expenditure of Rs. 1,40,378.91 crore The government on Wednesday initiated the first step towards providing for the Rs. 60,000-crore farm loan waiver scheme, setting apart Rs. 10,000 crore from the supplementary demands for grants for setting up a debt relief fund for farmers. The relief fund, …
A lot has been said and written on the state of agriculture in India and if the recently-announced largesse of Rs 60,000 crore in the form of farm loan waivers can do anything significant to mitigate the plight of the Indian farmer. In this context, it may not be out …
Parliament's approval for additional net cash spending of Rs 43,060 crore sought. The government today sought Parliament's approval for additional net cash spending of nearly Rs 43,060 crore for 2007-08. This includes Rs 10,000 crore for creating a Farmers Debt Relief Fund for waiving the debt of small farmers. The …
The farm loan waiver announced by the Central government has come as a boon to the District Central Cooperative Bank (DCCB), which is facing financial problems with bad debts amounting to Rs 200 crore. The DCCB is expected to get Rs 140 crore from the Central government under the farm …
Hundreds of poor farmers are up in arms against the district administration for delaying registration of a criminal case against "bigwigs' allegedly involved in the 450-acre surplus government land scam in Rajasansi village. Fearing threat to their family members' lives, farmers, mostly Scheduled Caste, said they were allotted land in …
Ultimately, it boils down to whether a loan waiver will help without taking action to improve irrigation facilities and to ensure remunerative prices for farmers. Vijay Jawandhia President, Shetkari Sangathana Maharashtra
IRRI-boro paddy cultivation in Pabna is facing a setback because of a drought-like situation for lack of rain. The farmers are now crying for rain. In many areas, cracks have developed on fields due to lack of water. Farmers said they were facing an unusual situation like the one in …
A farmer was killed over a dispute which emerged over irrigation water share near Naban Khan Lakho village in the Lakha Road area late Monday night. Rafique Lakho was irrigating his lands while his relative Mumtaz Ali Lakho was waiting for his turn, who reminded Rafique that time for his …
Karza maafi or voter maafi?: File picture of the relatives of a farmer who committed suicide due to mounting debt last year. It was around the distress in regions like Vidharbha and Anantapur that the present
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi virtually launched the Congress party's election campaign here on Sunday with a frontal attack on the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), blaming it directly for the distress in the agrarian sector. Accusing the NDA of neglect of farmers, the …
THE Budget 2008-09 was projected long before as a "kisan budget' that would announce relief measures adequate enough to mitigate the misery of our farmers who have been reeling under a debt-trap. The expectations were especially high in the case of Punjab's farmers, whose problems of indebtedness and soaring suicide …
