Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Maharashtra Cooperation Minister Babasaheb Patil on Friday said that to address the recurring cycle of debt, the state government has established a high-level committee on October 30, 2025. The committee is tasked with recommending both short-term and long-term measures to free farmers from the “debt trap.”In a written reply to a question raised by members Shiv Sena-UBT leader Bhaskar Jadhav, BJP leader Prashant Thakur and others, the minister informed the state Assembly th…
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New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) India has created a large-scale digital foundation for agriculture with over 7.63 crore farmer IDs and 23.5 crore crop plots surveyed under the Digital Agriculture Mission, an official statement said on Saturday.According to the statement, the National Pest Surveillance System supports 66 crops and over 432 pest types, providing real-time advisories to more than 10,000 extension workers for early pest detection.“As of December 2025, the Kisan e-Mitra chatbot has answer…
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) Fertiliser movement from the Centre to the states on Indian Railways, during the first nine months (April-December) of the financial year 2025-26, reached an all-time high with total supplies crossing 530.16 lakh metric tons to surpass the 500 lakh metric ton mark for the first time during this period, an official statement said on Friday.This represents a 12.2 per cent increase over the corresponding period of FY 2024–25 and is 8.5 per cent higher than the previous re…
Hyderabad, Dec 22 (IANS) Three agriculture workers, all women, were killed and 13 others were injured in a road accident in Telangana’s Mancherial district on Monday. The accident occurred when a truck hit a Bolero pick-up truck carrying agriculture workers from Maharashtra. The Bolero vehicle rammed into a tree after it was hit by the truck from behind on the national highway near Indaram X Road in Jaipur mandal.According to police, a group of 23 farm workers from Chandrapur in neighbouring M…