Three quick policy measures can be taken to ensure income and credit flows: direct procurement, direct cash transfers to farmers as well as landless labourers and interest subvention through cash…
To help borrowers in the agriculture sector tide over the distress created by the Covid-19 pandemic, Bank of Baroda (BoB) has announced schemes where it will offer additional loans of…
On 31 March, Asia's biggest onion market fell silent. The market in Lasangaon in the western Indian state of Maharashtra usually thrums with farmers and traders. But the mostly migrant…
Amid the nationwide lockdown to prevent the global pandemic COVID-19, the government has been taking several measures to give relief to its citizens. When the entire world is suffering from…
The centre has decided to allow procurement of gram (chana) and lentils (masur) in 13 states at minimum support price (MSP) during lockdown without waiting for any formal proposal from…
Farmers can now directly sell their produce to organized retailers such as wallmart instead of going through the yards of agricultural produce market committees during the Covid-19 lockdown. Consumer affairs…
Mohammad Alam is one of thousands of workers standing in a food queue in India's capital, Delhi. The factory where he worked shut down after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced…
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