Government of AP has set up Andhra Pradesh General Insurance Corp #APGICL (100% Govt stake) for providing insurance to farmers. It will further extend its services to other insurance sectors.
How pesticide use data are manipulated-a case of AP
These are two tables from the socio economic survey reports of AP from 2010-11 and 2011-12 which explains what public institutions do to support their claims. The first table shows reduction in pesticide use significantly from 2005-06 reaching almost half by 2010. thats’ the period when the Non Pesticidal Management Program was implemented in the …
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Economic Survey indicates agrarian crisis brewing in Andhra Pradesh
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/andhra-pradesh/2019/jul/13/economic-survey-indicates-agrarian-crisis-brewing-in-andhra-pradesh-2003301.html AP SocioEconomicalSurvey 2018-19 Even though agriculture sub-sector registered negative growth, agriculture broad sector, which includes allied sectors, managed 10.78 per cent growth, with better performance of fisheries, livestock. Published: 13th July 2019 07:34 AM | Last Updated: 13th July 2019 10:56 AM | A+A A- A farmer prepares his land for farming ahead of the Monsoon at Undavalli …
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AP State Agricultural Mission
190701 AP State Agricultural Mission AP government set up State Agricultural Mission with an objective to have better coordination among the allied sectors, as a Policy advisory body. The aim of the Mission is to overcome the challenges in delivering quality and timely services to the farming community and also look into all aspects of …
AP Money Lenders Act, 2017
Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly today passed a bill aiming to regulate the private money lending business. The act provides that money lending cannot be done without a license, and the government may, from time to time, specify the maximum rate of interest chargeable by money lenders for any local area. As per the act, accounts …
Memorandum to AP Chief Secretary on Loan Waiver
140622-Chief-Secretary-Telangana-final Download Rytu Swarajya Vedhika has a submitted a memorandum with the following demands. As a first measure, the Government must delink the loan waiver proposal from distribution of Kharif loans for the current agricultural season and should immediately take action to disburse crop loans without delay to all the farmers including Tenant farmers. While the …
The real cost of credit constraints: Evidence from micro-finance
Renuka Sane, (renuka@saner.org.in), (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research) Susan Thomas (susant@igidr.ac.in), (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research) In December 2010, the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh passed a law that severely restricted the operations of micro-finance institutions and brought the micro-finance industry to an abrupt halt. We measure the impact of micro-credit withdrawal in …
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Four cotton growing states records 68% of the Farmers Suicides: NCRB 2012 data shows
National Crime Records Bureau Report-2012 shows increasing agrarian crisis in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra The latest report of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that the total farmers suicides recorded during the year 2012 were 2,84,694 in the last eighteen years. NCRB started documenting the ‘Farmers Suicides’ as a separate category under self employed from …
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