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Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Policy & trade, Punjab30,000 farmers march to reach Delhi by December 26 and 27BKU (Ekta-Ugrahan) said over 30,000 farmers would join the protests at Delhi's borders on December 26 and 27, a month after the first march to Delhi.
- Policy & trade, PunjabFarm unions urge not to force Powercom staff to switch to Reliance JioPunjab farm unions opposed state utility Powercom's move to switch employees' SIM cards from Vodafone to Reliance Jio, a company they have protested against for months.
- Policy & trade, IndiaCentre to release the 8th installment of the PM Kisan Yojana scheme possibly by MarchAfter paying the seventh PM Kisan instalment of Rs 18,000 crore to over 9 crore farmers on December 25, 2020, the Centre is expected to release the eighth in March.
- Policy & trade, IndiaNCDC releases Rs 20,000 crore to 3 states for kharif procurement; declares notable increase in MSPNCDC sanctioned Rs 19,444 crore to Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Telangana as a first instalment for kharif paddy procurement under MSP operations.
- Policy & trade, IndiaPresident accepts Badal’s resignation; food processing portfolio to have new headHarsimrat Kaur Badal quit the Union Cabinet in protest against two farm bills, and Narendra Singh Tomar has been given charge of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries.
- Policy & trade, IndiaGovernment sought more time to present a concrete proposal; next round of talks on December 9The Centre asked farm unions for more time to present a concrete proposal on the farm laws and set the next round of talks for 9 December, as unions went ahead with a Bharat Bandh.
- Policy & trade, IndiaNCDC announces ₹10,000 crore scheme for agro cooperatives to set up health infra in rural areasThe National Cooperative Development Corporation has launched Ayushman Sahakar, offering ₹10,000 crore in term loans over five years for cooperatives to build rural healthcare facilities.
- Policy & trade, Maharashtra5.82 lakh farmers pay arrears of Rs 511 crore in MaharashtraUnder Maharashtra's new agricultural pump power policy, 5.82 lakh farmers have paid Rs 511.26 crore of electricity bill arrears and received a rebate of Rs 256 crore.
- Policy & trade, IndiaRBI provides support of Rs 50,000 crore to NABARD, NHB, SIDBIRBI announced Rs 50,000 crore of fresh liquidity support for 2021-22, including a Rs 25,000 crore facility for NABARD to support agriculture and the rural economy.
- Policy & trade, West BengalBengal CM’s appeal to direct PM-Kisan funds through state govt gets repudiated by the CentreThe Centre has refused West Bengal's request to route PM-Kisan payments through the state government, saying it will pay farmers once the state verifies registered beneficiaries.
- Policy & trade, Chhattisgarh141 farmers committed suicide in the past 10 months in ChhattisgarhChhattisgarh's agriculture minister told the Assembly that 141 farmers died by suicide between April 2020 and 1 February 2021, prompting opposition demands for a probe and compensation.
- Policy & trade, Uttar PradeshAfter nine long years, farmers get their residential plots in NoidaNoida authority has allotted 644 residential plots by lucky draw to farmers whose land was acquired before 1997, nine years after the scheme was launched in 2011.