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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

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

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.

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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.

Madhya Pradesh government made a roadmap for wheat procurement amid lockdown

07/04/2020

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has given a big relief by clearing the doubt about wheat sale among farmers amid the ongoing lockdown on the Corona global epidemic. Under this, the procurement of wheat at the minimum support price in the state will start from April 15. During this time social distance will also be taken care of, and every day only selected farmers will be called through SMS.

Significantly, last year there were 3545 procurement centers in the state, which has been increased to 3813 this time and other new centers are also being built. This time the total number of procurement centers will be up to 4000.

On this whole issue, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has said that the lockdown is expected to open in the state on April 14. After this, Rabi procurement work will be started in the state from April 15. He said that the procurement work has to be finished by 31 May. Time is short. Therefore, making such a system, so that wheat, gram, mustard and lentil crops of farmers can be easily purchased at the support price.

Big relief in lockdown: Government will buy rabi crops from farmers’ home

06/04/2020

Farmers are facing a range of difficulties due to the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to the Corona crisis. Actually the present time is of harvesting of Rabi crops and government procurement, but during the lockdown on this issue, the government has taken the initiative to give a big relief to the farmers.

To tackle this problem, the Punjab government has taken an important decision. The Punjab government is preparing to go to the villages to purchase crops to prevent congestion in the mandis during the procurement of rabi crops. During this time, priority will be given to those villages which are located at a distance of about 1 to 2 km from the mandis.

Officers of Agriculture and Food Departments have been instructed by the Punjab Government to soon find a way to go to the farmers of the villages and buy wheat. It has been suggested to send workers to farmers’ homes to help the farmers of the villages located away from the mandis.

Purchase of wheat on support price postponed

06/04/2020

Due to the Lockdown in the country due to the Corona epidemic, although the Central Government has given an exemption to farmers for agricultural activities and selling crops, etc. But still, the procurement of crops has not been started by the state governments, the main reason for this is the State government does not want to allow more crowds to gather at one place.
Already, purchases on Minimum Support Price in Rajasthan have been postponed indefinitely. Now the Madhya Pradesh government has also decided to postpone the purchase of wheat at the MSP.
Earlier, under normal circumstances, the purchase of wheat at MSP by the Government of Madhya Pradesh was to be done from April 1, 2020. For this, farmers have already registered with e-procurement.
But now the state government has postponed the wheat procurement work being started from April 1, 2020, keeping in view the situation of Coronavirus till further orders.

Amidst fears of Corona, Indian Council of Agricultural Research gave useful advice on harvesting

02/04/2020

Amidst fears of Corona, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research has given some useful advice to farmers on harvesting. Council has said that farmers can postpone wheat harvesting for a few days. The Council believes that the harvesting of wheat can be delayed till April 20 and there will be no loss.

Citing the reason behind this, the council said that in most areas the temperature is still below average and hence some delay in harvesting can be done. Significantly, the harvesting of wheat generally starts from the end of March.

21-day lockdown: Government has given special exemption to farmers

28/03/2020

At this time, the whole world is troubled by the increasing cases of the coronavirus. In India also, the central government has imposed a 21-day nationwide lockdown amid growing infection of the virus. This means that all offices, markets, means of transport etc. will be closed in the entire country for 21 days. This news created a situation of confusion among Indian farmers. But the government has ended this confusion by giving special exemption for the farmers even in the lockdown.

Actually, the farmers have to purchase many agricultural products like fertilizer and seeds for their crops. In such a situation, if they wouldn’t have got these products due to lockdown, then they would have to face a lot of trouble. Keeping in mind these problems of the farmers, the government has announced a discount for farmers on the purchase of products like seeds and fertilizers. This means that the farmers will be able to meet their agricultural requirements easily, even during the lockdown period.