Loan-waiver or one-time settlement for the farm sector is not something new or a unique step taken for the farm sector in this year's Central budget.

FARMERS in the Barind area are now using fallow land to cultivate chickpea. The high Barind land used to remain fallow after aman harvest.

Thursday was Congress member Rahul Gandhi's day in Parliament.

The Indian government has announced a loan waiver in the budget for small and marginal farmers to the extent of Rs 60,000 crore

For the past three decades, more investment has been made for crop technology than for building infrastructure to store and market food products.

Authorisation sought for additional expenditure of Rs. 1,40,378.91 crore

A lot has been said and written on the state of agriculture in India and if the recently-announced largesse of Rs 60,000 crore in the form of farm loan waivers can do anything significant to mitigate

Parliament's approval for additional net cash spending of Rs 43,060 crore sought.

The farm loan waiver announced by the Central government has come as a boon to the District Central Cooperative Bank (DCCB), which is facing financial problems with bad debts amounting to Rs 200 crore

Hundreds of poor farmers are up in arms against the district administration for delaying registration of a criminal case against "bigwigs' allegedly involved in the 450-acre surplus government lan

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