From better irrigation to more technology, more credit and markets to proper crop insurance, focus on soil health to eliminating middlemen, the efforts are all-encompassing, he asserted

The 'Model Bill' intends to ensure protection of farmers from exploitation by middlemen and large corporate entities

The Agri warehousing and Agri-NBFC sectors have a lot of expectations from the upcoming budget as the growth of these two sectors is essential for the growth of agriculture in the country

The government gives guaranteed return to private companies in its business dealings and considers their profit-motive good and desirable. Why the same doesn't hold true for farmers?

Most successful, industrialised and fast-growing Asian economies like Japan, South Korea, China, and Vietnam followed this model, as did Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Why can't India?

These organisations face multiple challenges ranging from low capital base, poor credit facility, lack of business know-how and skilled manpower but with government handholding they have the potential to change the fortunes of small and marginal farmers

Evidence shows Punjab farmers have brought food security and grown richer in the process while Bihar farmers have grown poorer and Madhya Pradesh farmers are striving to move ahead using MSP

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says health and investment in health will be top priority for government; Budget 2021 will take note of all inputs received from health sector to take this forward

Addressing the Delhi Assembly, the Chief Minister also alleged the laws have been made for 'electoral funding of the BJP and not the farmers'

Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers' well-being be achieved without land reforms?

Niramala Sitharaman says MSP has always been generously kept up, and government hashonoured it lot more, both in terms of procurement volumes and prices to farmers

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

Earlier in the day, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the inflation trajectory has not panned as per the central bank's expectations and upped its target for the price rise situation in the next one year

As per the figures, by the end of the season last year, 147 mills- 79 cooperative and 68 private- had crushed 545.26 lakh tonnes of sugarcane and produced 66.61 lakh tonne sugar

Scientists, public health officials and investors welcomed the first successful interim data from a large-scale clinical test as a watershed moment that could help turn the tide of the pandemic if the full trial results pan out

The argument that the new laws are intended to spur investment and boost growth is spurious; more so after special rights and privileges were revoked, the state was downgraded to union territories and its people and political leaders were shut out of democratic space

Jio, for the uninitiated, is building its 5G solutions on a new global initiative called O-RAN (Open RAN) instead of the proprietary networks provided by Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung and others

Modi was speaking after inaugurating three projects in Gujarat - one each related to agriculture, healthcare and tourism development - via video conference from New Delhi

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