Maharashtra wants to bring back a 2% interest subvention scheme for farmers A resolution calling for the reinstatement of a two percent interest subvention was passed and accepted by the State level Bankers’ Committee during a meeting that took place in Mumbai in the presence of the...
DGFT would send the case to CBI to check if wheat exporters use back-dated LCs to get permits. Monday, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said it would look into sending cases to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)/Economic Offence Wing (EOW) after taking action under...
Nasik Onion farmers started a protest against govt to stop prices from going down. Farmers in Maharashtra’s Nashik district have started a protest because onion prices are going down, and they have warned that they will ‘intensify’ it if the Union and State governments...
ICAR’s book records 75,000 farmers who doubled their income in the last 6 years. Anwesh Kumar Sahu in Odisha’s Sonepur district now makes ₹40,000 to ₹50,000 a month from less than three acres of land, while his father only made ₹50,000 a year from the same land until 2017. The...
India doesn’t have a shortage of wheat, but the government has banned its export to stop ‘rampant’ sales of the grain abroad. This is what Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said. After going to an event here on Thursday, Tomar told reporters that it was the...
