Karnataka farmers planning for more cotton, pulses, and oilseeds in Kharif 2022 sowing. This Kharif planting season, farmers in Karnataka are bringing in more cotton, pulses, and oilseeds. As Kharif sowing is picking up speed, the amount of land used to grow cotton and sunflowers has...
Under the PM crop insurance Scheme, states might have to share their profit or loss with the insurance company. After letting some states use the so-called Beed formula or 80:110 plan ‘informally’ for the past two years, the Centre is about to give three more options under the...
Wrongly weather predictions put Kodagu, and Chikkamagaluru coffee producers at risk. The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) ‘sadly’ erroneous weather forecast has put coffee producers in Karnataka in peril. Coffee growers in Karnataka prepared for rainfall on June 1...
The angry farmer from Bidar district bets Union Minister to win the next general election. In the 4.02-minute audio clip, the farmer is heard asking the Union Minister to send him more fertilizer because farmers in Aurad taluk of the Bidar district have been running out of stock. A...
Does MSP (Minimum Support Price) benefit farmers? In 2014-2015, the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for tur (pigeon pea) was ₹ 4,350 per quintal. In 2021-22, it will be ₹ 6,300 per quintal. But farmers don’t sell to government procurement agencies in Latur city, which has hundreds of...
