The state government will roll out a farmers’ relief scheme, modalities for which are being fine-tuned, with an initial budgetary allocation of Rs 100 crore, agriculture minister Badal Patralesh has...

Paving the way for 'One Nation, One Agri Market' for farmers, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved an ordinance to allow barrier-free trade in agriculture produce outside the notified APMC mandis.T...

The Mizoram government has began distribution of free vegetable and fruit seeds to farmers during the unprecedented crisis due to the outbreak of Covid-19 in order to boost local production, an offici...

A homemaker who had been driven by lockdown-induced penury to pick vegetables from the field of a wealthy farmer here was electrocuted early on Saturday after coming in contact with a live wire. Ushar...

A middle-aged farmer committed suicide in his own agriculture field in Uttar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region on Saturday.Villagers said that Rajkaran Shukla, 52, hanged himself from a tree on his four-...

Several cash crop farmers in Mizoram are facing inconvenience because of absence of market following the 21-day nationwide lockdown, state agriculture minister C. Lalrinsanga said.During a video confe...

A farmer has started a cycle journey from his nondescript village in Bihar’s Araria district in search of his 12-year-old son after the boy was separated from a group of people who had gone to Chhat...

Peasants agitating for higher compensation against their land acquired for two highway projects in Jalore district of Rajasthan have written to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking permission to embrace...

The Maharashtra Assembly witnessed pandemonium on Tuesday after the opposition BJP accused the state government of “not fulfilling” the assurances made to farmers, and demanded a blanket loan waiv...

Panchfula Atram is 50 and a cotton grower; a widow and marginal dry-land farmer belonging to a particularly vulnerable tribal community called Kolam in central India. For her bare minimum sustenance, ...