The PMFBY is fulfilling the objectives of providing financial support to stabilise income of farmers especially at times when natural calamities damage crops.
By and large, MSP arrangement leading to Government purchase has been implemented in varying degrees among states and it has been mostly limited to rice and wheat.
Farmers on Wednesday announced to suspend the 'Delhi Chalo' march for two days, informing that they will decide their next course of action on Friday evening. The decision was announced by farmers' leader Sarwan Singh Pandher while addressing the media.
Farmers have been protesting at the Punjab-Haryana borders for the past few days to press the Centre into accepting their demands on minimum support price (MSP) for crops and other issues.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare had extended the invitations to these 1500 farmers, who are beneficiaries of Central government schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana to witness the parade.
Terming farmers as the greatest scientists in the world, the Governor said that smaller projects like check dams and dykes in hilly areas will be beneficial for farmers in villages. He said that the agriculture department working at the block and panchayat levels should draw up plans for smaller irrigation projects so that small farmers can grow more crops.
A farmer allegedly ended his life by suicide by consuming poison due to crop failure at Baneikel village in Titilagarh of Bolangir district on Saturday.
The Odisha Mushroom Growers' Federation has urged the state government to accord agriculture status to mushroom products.
Crops in vast tracts of farmlands in Bheden and Attabira blocks were affected by hailstorms and pest attacks in the last Rabi season.
"In the past five months since he became Chief Minister again, more than 50 farmers have killed themselves,” Kateel told reporters in Vijayapura.
Most farmers are desperate to save their crops. They are seen remaining awake throughout the night at farmlands and pumping out water from nearby creeks, ponds, or rivers
Farmers alleged that due to pest attacks, the paddy plants are failing to give out shoots. They are worried that they won’t be able to repay their loans and borrowings that they have taken for the cultivation this year.
Farmers in Nuagaon village under Kashipur block in Rayagada district have done the impossible when the administration failed to resolve their problem. They have carved a canal through a hill to bring water to irrigate their farmlands and become an example for others to emulate.
The relief package encompasses financial aid to address the damage incurred by standing crops, plants, and trees, which affected approximately 1.30 lakh hectares of land in Kutch and Banaskantha.
Cooperation Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak made the announcement after a review of his department by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
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