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Without Crop Insurance, the damage to the crop will be compensated, know what is the way?

08/05/2020 Monday November 23rd, 2020

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

If your crop is harmed due to any natural disaster, then it gets to benefit from crop insurance scheme but many times farmers do not join this scheme, then they do not get the benefit of this scheme. However, even in such a situation, farmers can get help from the bank from which they have taken an agricultural loan.

The Reserve Bank of India has given information on this subject on its website. According to this information, in case of more than 33% loss to the crop, the bank from whom the farmer has taken a loan, can get help from there.

What is the procedure?
If the central and state government declares your area as a natural disaster-affected area and your crop is at a loss of 33% or more, then you have to go to the bank and report the loss of your crop and tell that the loan you took, your ability to repay it has been affected.

How much help do you get?
If your crop has suffered from 33 to 50%, then the bank will give an additional 2 years to repay your agricultural loan and no installment will have to be paid for the first year of these two years. On the other hand, if there is more than 50% loss to the crop, then the loan repayment period will increase by 5 years and no installment will have to be paid in the first year.

Source: Jansatta

Get information about PM-Kisan, Jan Dhan, LPG subsidy and other schemes in lockdown

07/05/2020 Thursday May 7th, 2020

Get information about schemes like PM-Kisan and Jan Dhan online in lockdown

In the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to the Corona epidemic, farmers and other people who are beneficiaries of various types of government subsidy schemes are not able to get complete information related to this. In such a situation, you can easily get information related to all these online.

To know the current status of Jan Dhan Yojana, LPG Subsidy Scheme, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, and other similar welfare schemes, you have to follow these steps on the online medium.

Step 1: Log on to the official website of the public management financial system @ pfms.nic.in/NewDefaultHome.aspx.

Step 2: Click on the ‘Know Your Payments’ menu on its home page

Step 3: Now fill the required details like your bank name, account number

Step 4: Submit Captcha Code

Step 5: Then tap on the ‘Search’ option

Step 6: After this, the full debit and credit details will appear on your computer screen.

Step 7: You will get to know the latest money transfer in your bank account.

In times of lockdown when it is dangerous to get out of the house, this online medium is becoming very helpful for everyone. With this, you can know the status of every scheme.

Source: Krishi Jagran

Supreme Court decides in favor of sugarcane farmers, millions of farmers will benefit

05/05/2020 Monday September 25th, 2023

Amidst the worldwide tragedy of the Corona epidemic, the Supreme Court has brought good news to millions of sugarcane farmers of the country. With the decision of the Supreme Court, the old problem of sugarcane farmers seems to be ending. There is often a dispute between the Center and the states about the pricing of sugarcane, which farmers had to suffer. Now a decision to the Supreme Court on this subject can put an end to these controversies.

The decision is given by the Supreme Court, which we are talking about, has been given by a five-judge bench of the court. A five-judge bench upheld a 2004 verdict on sugarcane pricing, saying that “the minimum support price for sugarcane can be fixed by the state governments”. It is worth noting that this decision of the court will benefit about 35 million farmers and their families who depend on sugarcane cultivation for their livelihood.

Source: Krishi Jagran

Banks will not be able to deduct more than 50% of the earning amount from farmers in MP

04/05/2020 Monday May 4th, 2020

Rabi crops continue to be procured across the country amid nationwide lockdown. Along with the purchase of wheat, now payment has also been made to farmers. But the bank has started deducting money from the farmers who had taken a loan from the bank for farming, due to which the farmers are not getting the full amount.

It is important to note that in Madhya Pradesh, most farmers take crop loans and farmers’ credit card loans to do farming. Farmers then fulfill this loan by selling their crop production. However, this year, due to rainfall and the corona epidemic, the savings of farmers have been very low. Due to which the farmers can face more problems due to the bank cutting the earning money.

Keeping these problems in mind, the Government of Madhya Pradesh has now ordered the banks not to deduct more than 50% of the outstanding loan amount from the amount of crop sold by farmers at minimum support price under the Rabi Earnings. Along with this, the Chief Minister has also instructed the banks to provide loans at zero percent interest to the farmers for the next crop.

Source: Kisan Samadhan

Private mandis will now open in Madhya Pradesh, farmers will benefit from this

03/05/2020 Sunday May 3rd, 2020

Generally, farmers do not have many options to sell their products and are forced to sell their produce in government mandis. The Government of Madhya Pradesh understood this problem of farmers and has cleared the way to open private mandis in the state.

In this regard, the Chief Minister of the state Shivraj Singh Chauhan has announced that “Now exporters, traders, food processors, etc. can open private mandis and go to the farmer’s land or their home and buy agricultural produce.” Explain that the purpose of this amendment in the mandi rules is to provide better prices to farmers and the freedom to sell their products as per their wish.

The Chief Minister said that with just one license such a private mandi can be eligible for buying the produce of farmers. After that, they will be able to buy from the whole state. After this decision, farmers in Madhya Pradesh will now have more options to sell their products and for this, they will not have to go round the market.

Source: financial express

Farmers are not getting fair prices in the market, know when the prices will increase in the market?

30/04/2020 Thursday April 30th, 2020

Except for the few districts (Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain) of Madhya Pradesh, wheat procurement is going on from April 15 in all the districts on support price, but mustard crops are yet to be purchased on support price. The speed of wheat procurement is also very slow at the procurement centers. The reason for this slow pace is the social distancing being adopted due to corona infection. Due to this social distancing, only 20 farmers can visit the procurement centers. In such a situation, farmers are being forced to sell their produce in the market at a quarter to one price.

Due to the slow pace of procurement at the procurement centers at the support price, farmers have to sell their mustard and wheat produce at low prices. Due to this, farmers are losing 2 to 250 rupees on wheat and about 500 rupees on mustard. However, it is expected that when the lockdown period ends on May 3, there is a possibility of a rise in the mandis of low-corona infected areas of Madhya Pradesh.

Source: Nai Dunia

Farmers begin receiving wheat procurement amount in MP, 200 crore given so far

24/04/2020 Friday April 24th, 2020

It has been more than a week since the wheat procurement started in Madhya Pradesh on the support price. Now the farmers of the state have also started getting their wheat procurement money. State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan himself gave this information. He said that “the process of sending the amount of wheat to farmers’ accounts has been started in the ongoing Rabi procurement work in the state. Approximately Rs 200 crore of the procurement amount has been sent to the banks. In the next 02-03 days, this amount will reach the farmers’ accounts. ”

Compared to last year, this time, twice the wheat has been sold through mandis. The Chief Minister himself was monitoring the work of Rabi procurement in the Ministry along with his ministers and other senior officials. Giving information related to the wheat procurement made so far in this meeting, it was informed that 81% of the purchases made so far have come from deal sheets. Under this, traders are buying wheat from the farmers’ house itself.

However, let us know that through the mandis, so far, twice as much wheat has been purchased as compared to last year. Till last year, 1.11 lakh metric tonnes of wheat were purchased from the mandis, while this time 2 lakh 14 thousand metric tonnes of wheat have been purchased so far.

Source: Public Relations Department, Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh: Sowing target set for 144.6 lakh hectare in Kharif season

23/04/2020 Thursday April 23rd, 2020

The ongoing lockdown due to the Corona epidemic slowed farm work for a few days, but now it has gained momentum. In this series, now the target has been set for the sowing of Kharif crops in Madhya Pradesh. This time, the target of sowing Kharif crops has been set in an area of 144.6 lakh hectares in the state.

Principal Secretary of Agriculture Department Shri Ajit Kesari has said that this time the target of sowing of soybean is in the maximum area of 60 lakh hectares. Apart from this, he targeted to be planted paddy in 31 lakh hectares, urad in 17.50 lakh hectares, maize in 16 lakh hectares, cotton in 6.50 lakh hectares, Pigeon pea in 4.50 lakh hectares, sesame / ram-til in 4.50 lakh hectares, groundnut in 2.50 lakh hectares, moong in 2 lakh hectares and other pulses in 0.10 lakh hectares.

Source: Krishak Jagat

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