The Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh said his government had decided to waive off loans amounting to Rs 520 crore of farm labor and landless farmers, with respect to the principal amount against their cooperative loans as of July 31, 2017, and simple interest at the rate of seven percent per annum on the above amount till March 6, 2019.
Bharat Singh Bais, an Ujjain-based farmers' leader, said at times, farmers prepare themselves for sowing as per the IMD's weather forecast.
In his meeting, Tikait held discussions on the BKU's press conferences scheduled for August 11 in Uttarakhand's Dehradun and Himachal Pradesh's Nahan, the farmer union's media in-charge Dharmendra Malik said.
Even after seven decades of development in India, agriculture remains the critical sector as a source of raw material and key inputs to several other sectors.
The government will transfer the 9th installment of Rs 2,000 under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme in the bank accounts of 10 crore farmers on Monday via video conferencing.
Naveen Patnaik urged the Centre on Saturday to supply adequate fertilisers to the state as the farmers were facing shortages during the peak of the kharif cultivation period.
The Delhi government and police on Wednesday agreed to allow farmers to hold the Kisan Sansad at Jantar Mantar from today till August 9 between 11am and 5pm. The protesters have been asked to give an undertaking that all Covid norms would be followed and the protest would be peaceful.
Gehlot said a grant of Rs 1,000 monthly or a maximum of Rs 12,000 annually on electricity cost will be given on agriculture connections.
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of over 40 farmer unions, has planned that around 200 farmers will hold protests outside parliament every day during the monsoon session.
A stone was thrown at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bhupesh Aggarwal as he was being assisted by police in Patiala district's Rajpura on July 11.
On the core issue of new farm laws, Narendra Singh Tomar asked people associated with farmers' protests that the government is ready to discuss any proposal except repealing them.
Sharing his view on farmers' rally near Gurudwara Nada Sahib in Panchkula on June 26, Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said, "They (farmers) are sitting at the borders for 8 months now.
Thousands of farmers tractor headed for Delhi border from UP
The Uttar Pradesh government, after making a record procurement of wheat, is now set to make a record purchase of oilseeds and pulses from the state farmers.
Protesting farmers called off their sit-in at a police station here on Monday evening shortly after the third farmer activist arrested in connection with the protest against ruling JJP MLA Devender Singh Babli was released on bail and other demands of the agitators were met.
Many farmers were seen sleeping on the road with pieces of clothes laid out, as they waited for their turn. They had also placed stones on the ground to mark their spots in the long queue.
Thousands of farmers reached Hisar on Monday responding to their leaders’ calls to protest against the registration of a criminal case against several of them during their clash with police last week after the inauguration of a Covid hospital here.
Farmers in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba are struggling to sell their produce during the COVID lockdown.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday urged the BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) not to hold their planned sit-in over his government's "failure" to tackle coronavirus, saying their three-day protest may turn into a super-spreader.
The Delhi Police on Friday filed chargesheet in the Republic Day violence case naming Deep Sidhu, other accused. The violence on January 26 had erupted during farmers tractor march who were protesting against the three new farm laws against the Centre.
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