The Crisis in Indian Agriculture is real and continuing. In last 25 years more than 3,63,964 farmer suicides recorded by National Crime Records Bureau. The average Indian farming household earned `8,931/month (`1,07, 172/year) in the agriculture year 2015-16 as per the National
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B-86-72, 1986 batch BSc (Ag), 1990 Msc (Ag) batch రెండు తరాలుగా వ్యవసాయం చేయని కుటుంబం నుంచి వచ్చి వ్యవసాయ విద్య నేర్చుకోవటం కోసం బాపట్ల వ్యవసాయ కళాశాల లో 1986 లో B.Sc (Ag) లో అడ్మిషన్ తీసుకున్నాను. మా నాన్నగారు, తాత గారు కూడా రైల్వే లలో పనిచేసారు. మా అమ్మగారు వ్యవసాయ
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What is fertiliser subsidy? Farmers buy fertilisers at MRPs (maximum retail price) below their normal supply-and-demand-based market rates or what it costs to produce/import them. The MRP of neem-coated urea, for instance, is fixed by the government at Rs 5,922.22 per tonne,
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TUSHAR DHARA 17 January 2021 https://caravanmagazine.in/interview/telangana-farmers-didnt-join-protests-because-msp-is-already-below-costs-prof-ramanjaneyulu For over a month, lakhs of farmers from Punjab and Haryana have been camped on Delhi’s borders in one of the largest agrarian protests in India’s history, while talks with the government on withdrawing three farm laws that
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Where Telangana Government went wrong? a. Any crop planning exercise need to be done based on soil type, weather conditions and local needs. After making a good excercise of all these state decided to go for increasing area under paddy and
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All MSP procurements are not through APMCs. In major wheat and paddy procuring States like Punjab, Haryana & some parts Rajasthan procurement from farmers is undertaken by the FCI/State Agencies through Arhatiyas as per APMC Acts of the concerned State for which
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The Crisis in Indian Agriculture is real and continuing. In last 25 years more than 3,63,964 farmer suicides recorded by National Crime Records Bureau. The average Indian farming household earned `8,931/month (`1,07, 172/year) in the agriculture year 2015-16 as per the National
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Suicide: Personal or Societywhere does the problem lie? My interest in the issue came in mid 90s reading about suicides as part of sociology and psychology. later in 1997 I was part of a study to understand why there are more suicides
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Telangana has 55% of population depending on agriculture and among them 75% are small and marginal. With average landholding just over 1.00 ha and 66% income coming only from cultivation, significant changes in the farming models are essential. Telangana is highly monocropped
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