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.

Acquisition rates have to be responsive to give armers a good information environment

Two debt-ridden farmers allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves in two separate incidents in the district, police said on Tuesday.

B R Hills (Karnataka): Hitting out at those who criticised the UPA Government's Rs 60,000 crore loan waiver for farmers, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said questions were not raised when indus

: State agriculture minister, Mr Naren Dey today said that though a potato farmer had committed suicide in the state, it is yet to be established whether financial distress, due to a bumper potato pro

The 131st meeting of State Level Bankers' Committee was held today under the chairmanship of K Subbaraman, Executive Director, Central Bank of India at the Zonal Office of Central Bank of India, Bhopa

Representative organisations of farmers' community have urged the new government to reduce interest rate on agricultural loans from 16 percent to five percent.

The farm loan waiver is the least the government can do to begin the process of healing the farm sector.