Bundelkhand Farmers

Farmers from different districts of the Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh started an indefinite hunger strike at the district headquarters of a rural bank in Banda on Monday alleging fraud on part of the management.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday criticised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the alleged suicide of four farmers and labourers in state's Bundelkhand region in the last one week.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 10,000 Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs) all over the country in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh today. He is also scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the Bundelkhand Expressway which will provide a four-lane access-controlled route in Uttar Pradesh.

Some 500 kilometres away from Delhi, in Talbehat block of Bundelkhand, Kamlesh Kushwaha and his brother Jagbhan have brought together 20 farmers who are growing fruit and vegetables without using chemical pesticides or fertiliser. And this has completely transformed their lives

A farmer in Uttar Pradesh was left in tears as a minister's cars drove over his field to save time and destroyed his crop in Bundelkhand, one of the poorest and most parched regions in the country. Consoling him, the minister, Jai Kumar Singh, stuffed a wad of notes worth Rs 4,000 into his pocket.

A group of farmers protesting in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand on Tuesday were allegedly forced to strip down to their underwear and sit in a police station for hours before they were allowed to leave.

Hit by years of drought, 70-year-old Kalyan Singh saw the first decent crop in years in the last Kharif season. He made some money but not enough to repay his 49,000 farm loan taken three years ago. And then, the Yogi Adityanath government's announcement to waive the crop loans came. "I heard on TV that 1 lakh rupee loans will be waived," the small...

The drought-prone Bundelkhand, one of the most backward regions of Uttar Pradesh, is a place where development has dominated the political discourse during the election campaign.

Raghunath, a 60-year-old farmer, surveys his two-acre farm in Bundelkhand with some concern. After four consecutive years of drought, the weather cooperated this year. Right after Diwali, he sowed the Rabi or winter crop of wheat, which now stands about two feet tall. On seeds, fertilizers, diesel for his water pump, he spent Rs 15,000. Then, on No...

At 7am, Bihari Das is usually at work on the farm he owns in Bundelkhand in Central Uttar Pradesh. This morning, he headed in the opposite direction.

By 9 am, the line outside a bank in Bundelkhand in central Uttar Pradesh is staggering. Bihari Das is exhausted. He walked ten kilometres to get to this bank - for the fourth day in a row. "It's incredibly frustrating for me. I can't afford to do this each day, but I have to," said the 65-year-old farmer. Each time he has made his exacting journey...

For the first time in five years, the well in Bundelkhand farmer Ram Prakash Kushwaha's field is full. This is good news for Mr Kushwaha's masoor dal crop, which needs just one cycle of water. Over the last five years, it failed four times because the drought did not leave even minimum water for irrigation.

For three consecutive years from 2012, Bundelkhand region in central India was hit by a crippling drought. This year, when the rain started, farmers and villagers finally hoped there would be some relief. But slowly that hope is now fading, with many areas now facing flood fury.

For the last four days , 42-year-old Doda Yadav , a farmer in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district, part of a village in the riverine areas of Ganga, has barely managed to venture out of his two-room house. When he does, it is only by using a rope that he has strung from his home to the closest possible higher ground -- about 20 metres away.

Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand is facing a drought for third year in a row. Now, a farmer has been arrested for stealing water.

Farmers from different districts of the Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh started an indefinite hunger strike at the district headquarters of a rural bank in Banda on Monday alleging fraud on part of the management.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday criticised Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the alleged suicide of four farmers and labourers in state's Bundelkhand region in the last one week.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch 10,000 Farmers Producer Organisations (FPOs) all over the country in Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh today. He is also scheduled to lay the foundation stone of the Bundelkhand Expressway which will provide a four-lane access-controlled route in Uttar Pradesh.

Some 500 kilometres away from Delhi, in Talbehat block of Bundelkhand, Kamlesh Kushwaha and his brother Jagbhan have brought together 20 farmers who are growing fruit and vegetables without using chemical pesticides or fertiliser. And this has completely transformed their lives

A farmer in Uttar Pradesh was left in tears as a minister's cars drove over his field to save time and destroyed his crop in Bundelkhand, one of the poorest and most parched regions in the country. Consoling him, the minister, Jai Kumar Singh, stuffed a wad of notes worth Rs 4,000 into his pocket.

A group of farmers protesting in Madhya Pradesh's Bundelkhand on Tuesday were allegedly forced to strip down to their underwear and sit in a police station for hours before they were allowed to leave.

Hit by years of drought, 70-year-old Kalyan Singh saw the first decent crop in years in the last Kharif season. He made some money but not enough to repay his 49,000 farm loan taken three years ago. And then, the Yogi Adityanath government's announcement to waive the crop loans came. "I heard on TV that 1 lakh rupee loans will be waived," the small...

The drought-prone Bundelkhand, one of the most backward regions of Uttar Pradesh, is a place where development has dominated the political discourse during the election campaign.

Raghunath, a 60-year-old farmer, surveys his two-acre farm in Bundelkhand with some concern. After four consecutive years of drought, the weather cooperated this year. Right after Diwali, he sowed the Rabi or winter crop of wheat, which now stands about two feet tall. On seeds, fertilizers, diesel for his water pump, he spent Rs 15,000. Then, on No...

At 7am, Bihari Das is usually at work on the farm he owns in Bundelkhand in Central Uttar Pradesh. This morning, he headed in the opposite direction.

By 9 am, the line outside a bank in Bundelkhand in central Uttar Pradesh is staggering. Bihari Das is exhausted. He walked ten kilometres to get to this bank - for the fourth day in a row. "It's incredibly frustrating for me. I can't afford to do this each day, but I have to," said the 65-year-old farmer. Each time he has made his exacting journey...

For the first time in five years, the well in Bundelkhand farmer Ram Prakash Kushwaha's field is full. This is good news for Mr Kushwaha's masoor dal crop, which needs just one cycle of water. Over the last five years, it failed four times because the drought did not leave even minimum water for irrigation.

For three consecutive years from 2012, Bundelkhand region in central India was hit by a crippling drought. This year, when the rain started, farmers and villagers finally hoped there would be some relief. But slowly that hope is now fading, with many areas now facing flood fury.

For the last four days , 42-year-old Doda Yadav , a farmer in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district, part of a village in the riverine areas of Ganga, has barely managed to venture out of his two-room house. When he does, it is only by using a rope that he has strung from his home to the closest possible higher ground -- about 20 metres away.

Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh's Bundelkhand is facing a drought for third year in a row. Now, a farmer has been arrested for stealing water.