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Rajasthan
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Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanRajasthan government in line: passes 3 bills to protest against the Centre’s farm lawsRajasthan has brought in its own amendment bills against the Centre's farm laws, making farming agreements invalid unless the price paid is at least the minimum support price.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanFarmer leader Rakesh Tikait’s convoy attacked, 16 including an ABVP leader arrestedBKU leader Rakesh Tikait's convoy was attacked in Alwar, Rajasthan, and police arrested 16 people on an FIR naming 33, with charges including attempt to murder.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanRajasthan government firm in its stand with farmers against Centre’s farm lawsRajasthan's Congress government decided to pass a Bill on October 31 against the Centre's three farm laws, while the state BJP said it would oppose it.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanCultivators in trouble as banks unwilling to fund PM Kusum YojanaIn Rajasthan, only 15 of 170 farmers who signed deals with discoms under PM Kusum have started their solar plants, as banks are unwilling to lend.
- Precision & digital, IndiaAccess to market info: a major factor for a flourishing agricultureExplains how timely market information strengthens farmers' hand with traders, and how literacy and language limit farmers' use of ICT, citing western Rajasthan.
- Precision & digital, RajasthanIndia’s first online mandi system started in RajasthanRajasthan entrepreneurs Sanjay Agarwal and Anil Modi have set up an online mandi platform that lets farmers sell from their fields and store grain in converted godowns.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanFarmers will now sell their produce outside Parliament, says TikaitAt a Kisan Mahapanchayat in Rajasthan, BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said farmers would sell produce outside assemblies, collectors' offices and Parliament to protest the farm laws.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanVictory for farmers in prolonged battle over crop insurance in RajasthanFarmers in Satlana, Jodhpur, have received kharif 2016 crop insurance claims under PMFBY after a High Court PIL, having been denied them over missing soft-copy records.
- Policy & trade, RajasthanInterest waiver scheme for agriculture traders extended till December 31 by Rajasthan governmentRajasthan has extended its interest waiver scheme for agriculture traders to December 31 and approved waiving mandi and farmers' welfare fees on pulses and oilseeds traded at MSP this kharif.
- Policy & trade, IndiaChhattisgarh and Rajasthan to follow in the footsteps of Punjab to oppose the central farm lawsAfter Punjab passed bills against the central farm laws, Congress-led Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan moved to do the same, though Chhattisgarh's governor queried a special session.