Under its popular PM-KISAN scheme, the government paid ₹1,364 crore to 20.48 lakh undeserving farmers, a response to a Right to Information (RTI) query by the Union Agriculture Ministry’s reveals. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sammann Nidhi (PM-KISAN) was introduced by the Centre in 2019 and...
In Nizamabad of Telangana, hundreds of turmeric farmers took to the streets at Armoor, seeking a minimum support price (MSP) of around ₹15,000 per quintal. As the marketing season starts, prices have fallen from about 5,500-6,000 a few weeks ago to about 4,000-5,000 a quintal (depending...
Reliance Retail Ltd sealed a deal for the purchasing of 1,000 quintals of Sona Masoori rice from the farmers of Sindhanur taluk in Raichur district in the first major transaction between a giant corporate entity and farmers since the implementation of the amended APMC Act in Karnataka...
The panic triggered by the avian flu outbreak recorded in six states has begun to affect the downtrodden poultry industry. In Telangana and Kerala, the poultry products demand has affected, in some areas of Hyderabad, prices of broiler chicken have dropped by 5-10% and egg prices fall to...
The present stretch of widespread unseasonal rainfall has increased the burden of the Karnataka coffee growers, who are in the middle of the 2020-21 crop harvest. Not only did the rains cause the break of fruit and droppings in the standing crop, but they also increased the chance of...
