The government has taken several measures in the last six-and-a-half years to boost agriculture production and farmers' income, says Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

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Thousands of farmers from several Indian states have been camped on the outskirts of New Delhi for over a month, blocking highways to demand that Modi's government repeal the farm laws passed in September that they say threaten their livelihoods

NPCI COO Praveena Rai said that pace of digitisation has also increased due to the regulatory framework and policies of the government and RBI

Pointing out that MSMEs are constrained today in terms of cash flows, time gap in realising receivables, among others, the SBI chairman said that collaborating is a better model than lending directly to MSMEs

India's national agriculture policy is 20 years old and its response to farm crisis continues to be ad hoc, primarily focused on letting private players provide infrastructure and better remuneration to farmers who have consistently failed to deliver

Top-down reforms since the demonetisation of 2016 have already derailed the economy and brought misery to millions, yet the great zeal to do more of the same amidst protests from several segments of population demonstrate that the intent is far from public welfare

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Gandhi says country has been witnessing a tough phase due to COVID-19 outbreak. In such a situation, the weakest sections like farmers, labourers, small businessmen, mothers, sisters and youth are the worst-affected, he adds

Finance Ministry said that the government is open to all possibilities to minimise COVID-19's impact and the Finance Minister is not averse to taking any further measures to ease people's suffering

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The Union government had launched the PM SVANidhi scheme on June 1 to help poor street vendors impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic resume livelihood activities

Agriculture Infrastructure Fund will accelerate the creation of many infrastructure projects such as cold storage, collection centers, processing units so that our hardworking farmers can get the true value for their produce, says Home Minister Amit Shah

The Centre provides Rs 6,000 per year in three equal instalments under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme that was launched in December 2018

The event, which will be held virtually, will be watched by lakhs of farmers and cooperatives across the country. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will also be present

The Union Cabinet had approved the Central Sector Scheme of financing facility under the \"Agriculture Infrastructure Fund\" of Rs one lakh crore

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also release the sixth instalment of funds of Rs 17,000 crore to 8.5 crore farmers under the PM-KISAN scheme

Finance Secretary Pandey said that UPI and Adhaar-enabled payment system helped the government transfer Rs 500 each to 19.36 crore of women Jandhan account holders and Rs 2000 to 8 crore farmers for three months at the click of a button

The reason India finds itself in the comity of nations that can't afford a big stimulus to stoke economic growth is the 8 quarters of wait-and-watch game played until coronavirus hit us