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Reserve Bank gave relief to crores of farmers, increased the date of repaying crop loans

22/04/2020 Wednesday April 22nd, 2020

The Reserve Bank has given relief to crores of farmers amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to Corona infection. This relief will be provided to crores of farmers of the country who take crop loans from banks through Kisan Credit Card. The Reserve Bank of India has extended the period for repaying the next installment of the crop loan to 31 May.

Apart from this, RBI has also provided relief in the interest rates of farmers. Now farmers can repay the next installment of their crop loan till May 31 at the old rate of only 4% per annum.

A letter was issued on Wednesday on behalf of the Reserve Bank on this subject. It has been clarified in this letter that along with the benefit of a three months moratorium on crop loans due to the Corona crisis, farmers will not have to pay punitive interest for three months.

Source: Outlook

Agriculture Minister Tomar attends discussion on the livelihood of farmers in the G-20 meeting

22/04/2020 Wednesday April 22nd, 2020

All countries of the world including India are troubled by the Corona epidemic. On the same burning issue of Corona, a meeting was held on Tuesday through a video conference between the leaders of the G-20 countries. Agriculture ministers of all the G-20 countries made their presence at the conference.

In this meeting, there was a big discussion mainly on ways to keep the food supply chain in the world smooth and to further the livelihood of the farmers. Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar was present in this meeting on behalf of India. The conference was chaired by Saudi Arabia’s Minister for Environment, Water and Agriculture Abdulrahman Alfaazali.

Union Agriculture Minister Tomar welcomed the initiative of Saudi Arabia to bring the G-20 countries on a platform to consider ways to ensure the continuity of food supplies, including the livelihood of farmers. Tomar discussed the exemptions being given to agriculture amid the ongoing lock-down in India and apprised it to all his counterpart agriculture ministers.

Source: Aaj Tak

Indian Meteorological Department alert: hail may fall in these states with heavy rains

21/04/2020 Tuesday April 21st, 2020

Recently, farmers suffered due to rain and hail in many states of the country. Now the Indian Meteorological Department has predicted heavy to very heavy rain for the coming days.

It is worth noting that in the last few days, many areas have been cloudy and there has been raining, due to which the temperature has also seen a drop. Now the Indian Meteorological Department has issued an alert in this episode, warning that the weather may remain bad in the next few days.

The meteorological department has issued a five-day weather-related bulletin in this regard and stated that the area around the Ganges River in West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram-Tripura, Assam-Meghalaya, Kerala-Mahe and in different areas of Karnataka There may be heavy rainfall.

Along with this, the Meteorological Department has predicted winds at a speed of 40-50 km per hour, lightning and hailstorm in Bihar, Assam, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada. Apart from this, the Meteorological Department has issued an alert for bad weather in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Konkan, and Goa.

Source: Jagran

Wheat procurement continues in MP, Wheat worth Rs 400 crore has been purchased so far

21/04/2020 Tuesday April 21st, 2020

Taking all necessary precautions given the Corona crisis, wheat procurement was started on the support price in all the districts of Madhya Pradesh except Indore, Ujjain, and Bhopal from last 15 April. Today, a week has passed since this procurement work started.

In this entire week, wheat worth Rs 400 crore has been purchased from about 1.25 lakh farmers in the last week through about four thousand cooperative societies of the state. The procurement process is being extended further from Tuesday. In this, messages will be sent to about 25 thousand farmers. Society will call 25 farmers, with 20 small and five big farmers.

Source: Nai Dunia

Madhya Pradesh: 15 lakh farmers will get big relief, 2990 crores to be received under crop insurance

20/04/2020 Monday April 20th, 2020

Relief for farmers, Govt. extended the duration of short-term crop loan

There is very good news from the government for farmers in Madhya Pradesh. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has said that a total of 2990 crores of insurance amount will be given to 15 lakh farmers of the state under crop insurance.

This large amount will be given to the farmers of the state till next week. Under crop insurance, this amount will be directly delivered to the farmers’ accounts. This decision was taken during the meeting of the Department of Agriculture in the Ministry where Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains, Principal Secretary Agriculture Ajit Kesari, and other officials were also present.

During the Kharif season of 2018, about 35 lakh farmers of the state had insured their crops. Now 8.40 lakh of these farmers have to get the insurance amount of 1930 crores. Apart from this, in the Rabi season of 2018-19, 25 lakh farmers of the state had insurance for Rabi crops, out of which 6.60 lakh farmers have to get an insurance amount of 1060 crore.

Source: NDTV

Kisan Rath App launched, will be helpful in better transportation of agricultural produce

18/04/2020 Saturday April 18th, 2020

Keeping in mind the ongoing lock-down in the country amid the growing infection of the coronavirus, the government is working to provide all possible help and relief to the people especially related to agriculture. Now in this series, Union Agriculture Minister Shri Narendra Singh Tomar has launched the Kisan Rath Mobile App on Friday, which will facilitate the transport of agricultural products.

Along with Mr. Tomar, Union Minister of State for Agriculture Shri Parshottam Rupala and Mr. Kailash Chaudhary and Secretary of the Ministry Mr. Sajay Aggarwal and other concerned senior officials were also present. On this occasion, Mr. Tomar said that “In the current crisis, the work of agriculture also needs to be done very fast.”

He said that “There were some problems in transportation of agricultural products, and to overcome this, Kisan Rath Mobile App has been launched. This mobile app has proved a milestone in the smooth transport of agricultural products across the country.”

You can download this app from the play store and then register yourself on it. In this app, all three farmers, traders and service providers can register themselves.

2424 crore rupees received by farmers in lockdown under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

17/04/2020 Friday April 17th, 2020

During the lockdown, the government is taking several steps to help the farmers in particular. In this link, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said that till now, under the Pradhan Mantri Crop Insurance Scheme, the claims of 2424 crores have been paid to a large number of farmers in 12 states.

Along with this, the government is also paying attention to that more and more farmers get involved and get benefit from this scheme. For this, the government is sending a message on the phone to the farmers and urging them to join the insurance. With this, the risk of farmers in farming will be reduced.

Along with linking the farmers with this scheme, the government is placing several types of conditions before the insurance companies, which will help in securing the interest of the farmers. Under this, the central and state governments together pay most of the premiums of insurance.

For more information visit https://pmfby.gov.in/

Narendra Tomar spoke to state agriculture ministers through video conferencing

09/04/2020

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday interacted with agriculture ministers of all the states through video conferencing and took stock of the agriculture-related work being done during the ongoing nationwide lockdown to reduce the infection of coronavirus.

The video conference was held at Krishi Bhavan on Wednesday and Union Agriculture Minister Tomar was accompanied by Union Ministers of State for Agriculture Purushottam Rupala and Kailash Choudhary. He discussed issues like harvesting and purchasing of rabi crops with the state agriculture ministers. Along with this, he also discussed the arrangement of ensuring the availability of fertilizers and seeds and other essential items for sowing the next season’s crop. A day earlier, the Union Agriculture Minister also interacted with the officials of the department through video conferencing.

At present, the harvesting season of many rabi crops including wheat, mustard, the gram is going on, as well as the sowing of Zayed crops like cotton, chili, and moong. Harvesting or sowing of crops cannot be stopped, therefore, the government has allowed it even during the lockdown and is taking new steps on it daily.

Source: ANI

4.91 crore farmer families received Rs. 9826 crore under Kisan Samman Nidhi

08/04/2020

Currently, there is a lockdown to prevent coronavirus infection across the country, due to which poor farmer families are facing a shortage of money. In view of the same shortage, the Central Government made a huge relief package of Rs 1.70 lakh crore under the “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana” and under the “Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana” an installment of 2000 rupees in the first week of April to help the farmer families, The announcement was made on behalf of the government.

Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, 8.7 crore farmer families will be given money, out of which the government has released the installment of this financial year to about 4.91 crore farmers from March 24 to April 03. 9826 crore has been provided to 4.91 crore farmer families under it. The Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar gave information about the amount given to the farmers.

Effect of Corona on the sale of egg-chicken

08/04/2020

Thousands of such messages are being spread in social media, in which this deadly virus is spread by consuming meat.
Due to the fear of illness, people gave up eating non-vegetarian food, so it directly affected the poultry and meat industry.
According to the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC)- Egg prices are about 15 percent lower than the previous year.
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy has released an advisory stating that the spread of the Corona virus through poultry is only a rumor, there has been no such case in the whole world, in which it can be said that Corona has an effect on it.