https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-rural-distress-helpline-telangana-preventing-farmer-suicides-101218 Set up in 2017, Kisan Mitra provides counselling to distressed farmers and acts as a bridge between them and the government. Priyanka Richi Saturday, May 04, 2019 – 16:58 The Kisan Mitra team “It was during the 2018 floods that we got a call from a farmer in Adilabad. The caller didn’t need any …
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Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare 24-July-2018 15:54 IST Waiving off Agricultural loan https://pib.gov.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=180924 The Union Government, at present, is not considering any loan waiver Scheme for farmers, as such, waivers may impact the credit culture of a State by incentivising the defaulters, even if they are in a …
https://thelogicalindian.com/my-social-responsibility/kisan-mitra/ From our friends at Efforts For Good Deepika Vemuri Telangana May 19th, 2018 / 5:34 PM Mallappa from Tattepalle, Vikarabad district, Telangana, called on Kisan Mitra helpline multiple times expressing anguish and distress, on 17th May 2018 evening around 5 PM, when things reached a state of desperation, he said he would commit suicide. …
KumKum Dasgupta, Hindustan Times, Anantapur Ram Chandru Reddy, a 67-year-old agriculturist, has been farming his three-acre plot at Kummaravandla Pally, a hamlet in Anantapur district, for as long as he can remember. “Farming is in my blood. But I nearly gave it up couple of years ago because of water crisis,” says Reddy, who grows …
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http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=109321 4.9.2014 Farm Income Insurance Scheme to Provide Protection to Farmers Against Natural Calamities is on the Cards: Radha Mohan Singh Production and price risks affect the income of farmers, which has adverse effect on their capacity to invest in advance crop varieties, techniques of production and capital formation in farm sector. Inaugurating a Seminar …
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/30/fao-pesticides-bihar-midday-meal-idINDEE96T07520130730?feedType=RSS&feedName=globalCoverage2 Reuters 30 July 2013 (Reuters) – Developing countries should speed up the withdrawal of highly hazardous pesticides from their markets following the death of 23 children from contaminated food in India, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization said on Tuesday. The children in Bihar died earlier this month after eating a school meal …
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