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Farmer Suicides in India: Durkheim’s Types -BB Mohanty

's types explain farmer suicides in India and suggests that they correspond to two of his types - egoism and anomie. Agrarian changes having considerably lowered the level of economic achievements of Farmers, the disproportion between achievement and aspiration is greatly felt by those who experienced egoism. This study argues that anomie is an effect of egoism. The latter, a structural characteristic of modern agrarian economy and society, is the pre

Protest against power plant in U.P. hits 1000th day-Omar Rashid

-The Hindu Farmers say they are ready to return compensation but in instalments Allahabad: Lathi maar maar ke utha lehale anshan wahe/ daktar sahib soochna pahuchain naye mukhyamantri se bataiye da/ hum aapan zamin na dewai/ hame na chahi kuch tumhara. (Police beat protesting Farmers and remanded them/We heard a new CM is coming to hear us/Tell him we won't give up our land/We want nothing fr

Farmers’ suicide rates soar above the rest-P Sainath

-The Hindu Suicide rates among Indian Farmers were a chilling 47 per cent higher than they were for the rest of the population in 2011. In some of the States worst hit by the agrarian crisis, they were well over 100 per cent higher. The new Census 2011 data reveal a shrinking farmer population. And it is on this reduced base that the farm suicides now occur. Apply the new Census totals to the suicide data of the National Crime Records Bu

Loan cards for tenant Farmers soon

du Minister asks officials to complete the process before the onset of kharif Hyderabad: The government has asked the revenue officials to ensure loan eligibility cards to eligible tenant Farmers in the State in 15 days to enable the latter to get credit for farm operations for kharif season beginning this June. Revenue Minister N. Raghuveera Reddy instructed Joint Collectors to facilitate issuing of these cards to the tenants after p

Reforms’ unintended fallout -Ashoak Upadhyay

the All India Debt Investment Survey published in December 2005, the working paper relies on RBI reports and others. Most noteworthy is the Report of the Task Force on ‘Credit Related Issues of Farmers'. Pradhan quotes from it thus: the "...more disquieting feature of the trend was the increase in the share of money-lenders in the total debt of cultivators. There was an inverse relationship between land-size and the share of debt from infor

CAG report shows why food security will be a disaster-Vivek Kaul

he Right to Food Security Bill. And if it does that, it will be a disaster. Currently, the government declares a minimum support price (MSP) for wheat and rice paddy, and buys them directly from Farmers using the services of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) as well as state government agencies. FCI and other agencies are expected to buy all the rice and wheat that lands up at government mandis. The data put out by CAG clearly shows that t

More Farmers or Fewer?-Rahul Goswami

-Macroscan.com The consequences of western Maharashtra's urbanisation on the food security of the 14 districts that have sent rural workers to that region are yet to be recognised. To read more, please click here

Rising farm wages will lift all boats-Neelakshi Mann and Jairam Ramesh

as a positive impact in creating sustainable livelihoods for individual beneficiary households. As per a study conducted by Sambodhi, a research organisation, in six States, almost 85 per cent of the Farmers have reported an improvement in land quality after the creation of MGNREGA assets. In the same sample, 11 per cent and 12 per cent of beneficiaries have also started horticulture and sowing of additional crops on their land. Evidently, both M

New hybrid maize seed developed for Gujarat: AAU Official

in protein of this maize, which is higher compared to other variety," he said, adding that it is a good source of protein for the tribals. A cash crop in Gujarat, maize is largely grown by Farmers in tribal dominant districts like Sabarkantha, Banaskantha, Panchmahal, Dahod, amongst others. It is also cultivated in districts like Mehsana, Kheda, Anand, Vadodara and Patan. The average acreage under maize in Gujarat is pegged at aro

NABARD shifts blame for corporate warehousing scheme to FinMin, RBI-Shalini Singh

-The Hindu In the eye of the storm for funding corporate warehousing projects on terms far softer than those offered to poor Farmers, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is now blaming the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for the transgressions. Following a story in The Hindu, (‘As Farmers suffer, NABARD offers soft loans to corpo