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- Policy & trade, IndiaUnion ministry’s 16-point action plan to promote farm liberalisation and bring in development for the agriculture sectorThe budget's 16-point action plan for agriculture aims to liberalise the sector, and FSII's Shivendra Bajaj says the new farm laws free farmers to sell where they want.
- Policy & trade, IndiaFarmers’ unions reject government offer to set up committeeFarm unions rejected the Centre's offer of a five-member committee to examine the new farm laws, and talks with three Union ministers ended without agreement.
- Policy & trade, IndiaCorporate farming: misleading picture painted by the Indian governmentArgues that experience in the US, France and elsewhere shows corporate farming harms small farmers, and that India's new farm laws ignore those lessons.
- Policy & trade, Uttar PradeshFood processing industry has wide scope for growth, say expertsAt a PHDCCI virtual seminar in Lucknow, speakers called food processing the fifth largest sector of India's economy and named access to credit and technology among its main challenges.
- Policy & trade, Uttar PradeshCases against 162 farmers dropped by UP govtUttar Pradesh told the Allahabad High Court it had dropped proceedings against 162 Sitapur farmers served notices for bonds of up to Rs 10 lakh over the farm law protests.
- Policy & trade, IndiaFarmers demand guaranteed law of assured MSP for 26 cropsAfter rejecting the government's written proposal, farm unions demanded repeal of the farm laws and a law guaranteeing procurement of 26 crops at MSP, and opened toll plazas for 24 hours.
- Policy & trade, Andhra PradeshAndhra Pradesh government extended financial aid to more than 50 lakh farmersAndhra Pradesh paid Rs 1,114 crore to more than 50 lakh farmers on 27 October 2020 in the second phase of the Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan scheme.
- Policy & trade, IndiaGovernment agrees to extend relaxed norms for onion import till JanuaryThe agriculture ministry has extended relaxed fumigation and phytosanitary certificate rules for onion imports to January 2021 to raise domestic supply and check retail prices.
- Policy & trade, IndiaPMKMY pension scheme for farmers sees low subscriptionA parliamentary panel is unhappy with low enrolment in the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana, whose target of 5 crore beneficiaries by 2021-22 has been cut to 3 crore.
- Policy & trade, IndiaSC brings discarded PIL challenging Centre’s farm laws into reconsiderationThe Supreme Court restored lawyer M L Sharma's PIL arguing that Parliament had no power to legislate on agriculture, a state subject, after earlier dismissing it.
- Policy & trade, Andhra PradeshAndhra farmers to get Rs 1,252 crore insurance claims for Kharif crops of 2019Andhra Pradesh will pay Rs 1,252 crore in crop insurance claims for kharif 2019 to 9.48 lakh farmers under the state's free crop insurance scheme.
- Policy & trade, DelhiDelhi CM under house arrest, claims AAP; rebuttal by Delhi PoliceAAP said Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was put under house arrest after meeting protesting farmers at the Singhu border, a claim Delhi Police denied.
- Policy & trade, IndiaMPEDA resolute to bring reforms in Marine Products ActMPEDA is pressing state governments to strengthen marine fishing laws so the US lifts its two-year ban on sea-caught Indian shrimp, which affects about 15 per cent of shrimp exports.
- Policy & trade, IndiaProtesting unions seek unconditional release of arrested farmers; send plea to the PresidentThe Samyukta Kisan Morcha has written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking the unconditional release of arrested farmers and the withdrawal of what it calls false cases.
- Policy & trade, Sri LankaSri Lanka lifted the prohibition on farm imports as natural drive failsSri Lanka has lifted its ban on agrochemical imports, abandoning its plan to become the first fully natural farming nation, after shortages and planned farmer protests.
- Policy & trade, India‘Agriculture can’t be run sitting in Delhi’ says Sharad PawarNCP chief Sharad Pawar criticised the Centre for not consulting state governments before passing the three farm laws, saying agriculture cannot be run by sitting in Delhi.
- Policy & trade, IndiaFarm unions seek help from UNHRC and intervention on farmers’ arrestsThe farm unions' legal cell wrote to the UN human rights office in India seeking intervention over arrests of protesting farmers and internet shutdowns at protest sites.
- Policy & trade, Telangana59.26 lakh farmers benefited from Rythu Bandhu schemeTelangana Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said the state has spent Rs 35,676 crore on Rythu Bandhu, and 47,168 families of deceased farmers received Rs 2,358.15 crore under Rythu Bima.
- Policy & trade, IndiaRakesh Tikait to travel to 5 states to gather support for the farmers’ protestBKU leader Rakesh Tikait planned a March tour of farmers' meetings in Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana to build support for the protest.