Farmers

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Farmers’ Income, 12/02/2019. Agriculture being a State subject, the State Governments undertakes development of perspective plans and ensures effective implementation of the programmes/ schemes. Also, Government of India supplements the efforts of the State Governments through various Schemes/ Programmes. Details of State-wise funds allocated under various schemes being implemented during 2018-19 is Annexed.

Publication Date:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Source: Lok Sabha

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Tags:

Agriculture, Farmers, Finance, Statistics, India, Parliament

Poverty

Not research nor analysis, but a look at poverty in 125 villages

Educationist and author Heramb Kulkarni talks about his report on food, loans, healthcare, migration in rural areas

Publication Date:

11/02/2019

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Poverty, Agriculture, Farmers, Agricultural Labourers, Health Care

Agriculture

Economic impact of farming cooperatives in East Africa

This report identified evidence on the economic impacts of agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The report begins with a discussion on the impact on productivity, income and welfare.

Publication Date:

05/02/2019

Author(s): Laura Bolton

Source: Institute of Development Studies

Tags:

Agriculture, Cooperatives, Farmers, Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Women

Agriculture

Planting and performing: Anxiety, aspiration, and “scripts” in Telangana cotton farming

On cotton farms in Telangana, India, performance draws attention to farmers’ work not merely as an economic activity but as directed toward different kinds of audiences and in conversation with different roles,stages, and scripts. Importantly, this performance is contextualized by a neoliberal seed market where a seasonal deluge

Publication Date:

01/02/2019

Author(s): American Anthropologist

Source: Andrew Flachs

Vol:

121

Issue:

1

pp:

48-61

Tags:

Agriculture, Cotton, Telangana, Farmers, Bt Cotton, GM Crops, Seeds, Debt, India, Rural Poverty

Agriculture

Empowering smallholder farmers’ organizations through non-public extension service providers: a case study and lessons from Mozambique

The role and impact of non-state extension services providers have not been studied adequately. In this paper, assess the performance of the non-State extension service provision through farmers organization (FOs) in Mozambique.

Publication Date:

01/02/2019

Author(s): Hélder R. Gêmo, Suresh Chandra Babu

Source: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Tags:

Farmers, Agriculture, NGOs, Mozambique, Africa

Agriculture

Sarbananda Sonowal launches Farmers’ Credit Subsidy Scheme

GUWAHATI: In a move to empower the farmers economically and socially and to pay homage to the martyrdom of peasants died in Patharughat, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal ceremonially launched Farm

Publication Date:

29/01/2019

Source: Sentinel (Guwahati)

Tags:

Assam, Agriculture, Farmers, National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) Manager & Others

Land

Farmers from 2 villages pool in land, build unpaved road

PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: At a time when various projects are stuck over land acquisition issues, around 30 farmers from Kinhai and Shelarwadi villages have given up their agricultural land for building a

Publication Date:

29/01/2019

Source: Times Of India (Pune)

Tags:

Maharashtra, Land Acquisition, Farmers, Agriculture, Land

Agriculture