Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a great orator. He also makes grand announcements about ambitious targets, leaving hapless officials and others to work out the details.

Around 35,000 farmers carrying red flags marched from Nashik to Mumbai demanding benefits from the government.

A coalition of civil society groups has asked Narendra Modi government to announce a Rs 200,000 crore agricultural debt relief package in the forthcoming Union Budget 2018.

Farmers in many parts of Maharashtra were on a warpath early this month, which disrupted supply of vegetables and other essentials to cities, including Mumbai.

Can waiving loans solve the larger agricultural crisis that have plunged the farmers into despair?

As agricultural tax proposals are now a political hot potato, farm incomes need to be examined and rationalised

Mango growers estimate that the production could be just 15 lakh metric tonnes this year as compared to 44 lakh metric tonnes last year.

The agricultural loans of the farmers of Uttar Pradesh have just been waived off. The farmers in Maharashtra too are agitating, demanding a similar waiver.

The Maharashtra Government today proposed to raise tax on liquor and lottery while earmarking Rs 8,233 crore for irrigation projects in its budget for 2017-18 with an estimated revenue deficit of Rs 4,511 crore.

This Budget has relied on strengthening strategies for agricultural progress articulated in the previous year, rather than new initiatives