Maharashtra elections: Farmers warm up to the idea of guaranteed income

Community youth’s fascination with development, however, is likely to split the farmers’ votes

HC gives temporary reprieve to three Maharashtra DCCBs facing liquidation

These banks being key pillar of the farm lending sector, 100,000 farmers may be affected this year

Protesting villages under siege

Police cordon off Greater Noida villages demanding enhanced land compensation; death toll may be more than the initial reports

Union Budget 2023: Foundation for sustainable farming is missing in India

Ambitious initiatives for farmers are promising but transition to sustainable agriculture requires healthy soil and inputs

Rs 1,400 MSP for wheat disappoints Maharashtra farmers

Demand minimum support price of above Rs 2,000 per 100 kg; say present MSP does not meet even cost of cultivation

Rare takes on the year just passing by

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COVID-19: Augmenting farmer access to long-term credit

Failing to protect farmers amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic can worsen India’s agrarian distress.

Infographic: 29 farmers, farm labourers die by suicide daily

Over 5,500 farmers, 5,000 labourers died in 2020

What is the cost of doubling farmers’ income by 2022?

The farmers have to make an investment of Rs 463 billion in the next five years

Modi talks of 10,000 farmer producer organisations. Will that double income?

Agricultural experts not confident farm income will double by 2022 as targeted

Will India’s new agricultural export policy work?

Food grain buffers exceed need, global prices remain depressed

'I am a farmer about to commit suicide. Can you help me? My Aadhaar number is...'

Psychologists are now intervening to help distressed farmers

As told to Parliament (November 30, 2021): 5,579 Indian farmers died by suicide in 2020

All that was discussed in the House through the day

Simply Put: Time to double farmer incomes

Union Budget 2022-23: How will ‘Kisan Drones’ benefit farmers, experts ask

‘Spraying pesticides and fertilisers will help industries the most‘

Five-fold rise in farmer protests in India since 2017: CSE analysis

India now has more farm labourers than farmers, according to the analysis

Deadlock: Centre asks farmer unions to get back within a day on proposal to ‘hold’ laws

Farmers to decide on next step as government puts ball in their court

Kisan Mukti March: Farmers from across India take to Delhi roads

This is the fourth farmer protest in the Capital in the last 18 months

Despite police action, farmers approaching Delhi for mega protest event November 26

Haryana seals its borders; farmers vow to protest wherever they are stopped

Simply Put: Farmers income

Hard work, but low wages for women farmers

Women farmers earn 22 per cent less than their male counterparts

Simply Put: Victims of Lakhimpur violence

The ignored sector

Post 1991, why has agriculture grown at 1 per cent while the industry at 8 per cent?

After excess rainfall, now poor prices leave Marathwada cotton farmers in debt

Excess rainfall has caused a loss of about 50 per cent across the cotton belt region

Back to nature: Immense need for crop diversification and role of agroforestry 

Input cost to increase productivity has increased over the last five decades