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Union Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman Allocates ₹ 1.50 Lakh Crore To Agriculture, Slashes Food Subsidies
Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman announces ₹ 1.50 lakh crore for agriculture, emphasising climate resilience and natural farming while reducing food and fertiliser subsidies.
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Fuel Price Excise Duty Cut Burden Entirely On Central Government, Says Finance Minister
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that excise duty reduction has entirely been made in road and infrastructure cess
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Government Promotes Use of Kisan Drones to Modernise Agriculture
Government aims to promote Kisan drops to support crop assessment, digitisation of land records, as well as spraying of pesticides and nutrients. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed that the government has already made a budget provision to ensure this development.
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Budget 2022: Food, Fertiliser & Petroleum Subsidies Reduced
A substantial reduction in subsidies -- primarily for fertiliser, food and petroleum -- has been announced in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the financial year 2022-23 (FY23) on Tuesday.
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Budget 2022: Government Plans Rs 1.4 Trillion Subsidy To Placate Farmers
India may earmark $19 billion in union budget to compensate fertilizer entities for selling their products to farmers at less than market rates
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Don't Extend Welfare Schemes To Those Tapping Water Illegally: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has directed authorities concerned not to extend the government welfare schemes such as agriculture loan and subsidy for seeds and fertilizers to persons who illegally tap water.
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Make Agriculture Profitable By Reducing Input Costs: Vice President
Stating that loan waivers and subsidies provide only temporary relief to farmers, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday stressed on making Indian agriculture profitable by reducing input costs and providing uninterrupted power as well as credit at low interest rates to the farming community.
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Amarinder Singh Approves Policy To Give Wheat Seeds At 50% Subsidy To Farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday approved the Agriculture Department's "Wheat Seed Subsidy Policy-2020-21" to provide certified wheat seeds at 50 per cent subsidy to farmers in the rabi season.
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Delhi Government To Provide Subsidy To Farmers On Electricity
The subsidy on agriculture electricity connections will be provided for financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20. It will begin from April 1, 2018.
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Government Considering Rs 70,000 Crore Plan To Pay Cash to Farmers: Report
The government, which has already exceeded the annual budget deficit target, has little room for spending in the current year, having forgone some tax revenue on goods and services following the defeat.
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Sensex Closes 150 Points Lower, Nifty Gives Up 10,400
Fertiliser stocks, and other agricultural stocks, rose significantly, a day after the government decided to continue a urea subsidy scheme till 2020 and implemented the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme.
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Fertilizers Stocks Jump Upto 6% As Urea Subsidy Scheme Extended Until 2020
National Fertilizers Ltd, Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd and Madras Fertilizers Ltd gained about 4 to 6 per cent, reported Reuters.
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Despite Fines And Subsidies, Haryana Farmers Continue Burning Crop Stubble
Farmers in Haryana are flouting the ban on crop residue burning, despite the threat of steep fines by local authorities. Seventeen incidents have been reported in Panipat district alone. The agriculture department and the state pollution control board claim they held awareness camps in September at 198 villages in Panipat
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With An Unforgiving Drought, A Cattle Crisis In Marathwada
Non-governmental organisations or cooperatives can set up cattle camps like these, but need a minimum of 500 animals, in order to get subsidy from the government to run them.
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India Hardens Stance In WTO, Objects To Draft Text On Agriculture
Hardening its stance in the ongoing WTO talks, India on Thursday strongly objected to the draft text on agriculture and said some countries are pushing for a deal on phasing out export subsidies with "some undue haste".
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Union Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman Allocates ₹ 1.50 Lakh Crore To Agriculture, Slashes Food Subsidies
Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman announces ₹ 1.50 lakh crore for agriculture, emphasising climate resilience and natural farming while reducing food and fertiliser subsidies.
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Fuel Price Excise Duty Cut Burden Entirely On Central Government, Says Finance Minister
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that excise duty reduction has entirely been made in road and infrastructure cess
-
Government Promotes Use of Kisan Drones to Modernise Agriculture
Government aims to promote Kisan drops to support crop assessment, digitisation of land records, as well as spraying of pesticides and nutrients. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed that the government has already made a budget provision to ensure this development.
-
Budget 2022: Food, Fertiliser & Petroleum Subsidies Reduced
A substantial reduction in subsidies -- primarily for fertiliser, food and petroleum -- has been announced in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for the financial year 2022-23 (FY23) on Tuesday.
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Budget 2022: Government Plans Rs 1.4 Trillion Subsidy To Placate Farmers
India may earmark $19 billion in union budget to compensate fertilizer entities for selling their products to farmers at less than market rates
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Don't Extend Welfare Schemes To Those Tapping Water Illegally: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has directed authorities concerned not to extend the government welfare schemes such as agriculture loan and subsidy for seeds and fertilizers to persons who illegally tap water.
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Make Agriculture Profitable By Reducing Input Costs: Vice President
Stating that loan waivers and subsidies provide only temporary relief to farmers, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday stressed on making Indian agriculture profitable by reducing input costs and providing uninterrupted power as well as credit at low interest rates to the farming community.
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Amarinder Singh Approves Policy To Give Wheat Seeds At 50% Subsidy To Farmers
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday approved the Agriculture Department's "Wheat Seed Subsidy Policy-2020-21" to provide certified wheat seeds at 50 per cent subsidy to farmers in the rabi season.
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Delhi Government To Provide Subsidy To Farmers On Electricity
The subsidy on agriculture electricity connections will be provided for financial years 2018-19 and 2019-20. It will begin from April 1, 2018.
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Government Considering Rs 70,000 Crore Plan To Pay Cash to Farmers: Report
The government, which has already exceeded the annual budget deficit target, has little room for spending in the current year, having forgone some tax revenue on goods and services following the defeat.
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Sensex Closes 150 Points Lower, Nifty Gives Up 10,400
Fertiliser stocks, and other agricultural stocks, rose significantly, a day after the government decided to continue a urea subsidy scheme till 2020 and implemented the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme.
-
Fertilizers Stocks Jump Upto 6% As Urea Subsidy Scheme Extended Until 2020
National Fertilizers Ltd, Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd and Madras Fertilizers Ltd gained about 4 to 6 per cent, reported Reuters.
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Despite Fines And Subsidies, Haryana Farmers Continue Burning Crop Stubble
Farmers in Haryana are flouting the ban on crop residue burning, despite the threat of steep fines by local authorities. Seventeen incidents have been reported in Panipat district alone. The agriculture department and the state pollution control board claim they held awareness camps in September at 198 villages in Panipat
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With An Unforgiving Drought, A Cattle Crisis In Marathwada
Non-governmental organisations or cooperatives can set up cattle camps like these, but need a minimum of 500 animals, in order to get subsidy from the government to run them.
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India Hardens Stance In WTO, Objects To Draft Text On Agriculture
Hardening its stance in the ongoing WTO talks, India on Thursday strongly objected to the draft text on agriculture and said some countries are pushing for a deal on phasing out export subsidies with "some undue haste".
