The Agriculture Ministry plans to cultivate 400,000 hectares in the 2008 Yala season due to favourable weather conditions for paddy cultivation.

QUESTIONING the UPA government's commitment to farmers and the revival of the agricultural sector, the BJP said that the Rs 60,000 crore loan waiver was a

I SPENT the first 12 years of my life in a poor, dusty and backward village of undivided Punjab. I still have vivid recollection of life in that village.

The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the creation of a Farmers' Debt Relief Fund with an initial corpus of Rs.10,000 crore.

The Union Cabinet today approved the farmers' debt relief fund with an initial corpus of Rs 10,000 crore. The scheme, for small farmers, was announced in the Budget.

It's time for the government to reconsider its anti-poverty programmes.

The State government has decided to give Rs.7,500 as compensation for loss of each hectare of paddy crop, Local Administration Minister M.K. Stalin informed the Assembly on Wednesday.

Twelve more debt ridden farmers committed suicide in the last 24 hours in Vidharba.