Vendors find no takers in the operating hours allotted to them resulting in surplus stock going to waste and unhappy vendors. Vapi, Ghaziabad: With lockdown restrictions in place, the allotment of limited functioning hours for vegetable and fruit vendors has become a reason behind their low sales. Markets are overcrowded, yet vendors remain under financial stress. […]
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Six months of the protests and seven years of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule has been observed as Black Day. Chandigarh: Houses in Punjab took down their farmer-supporting green and yellow flags for the first time in six months to replace them with black flags to observe May 26, 2021, as Black Day. People […]
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Small and marginal farmers have been affected by the delay in crediting the PM Kisan Nidhi Scheme. Mumbai: Datta Karande, a farmer from Solapur, has been dependent on the Pradhan Mantri (PM) Kisan Nidhi for the last two years to continue farming. This year, his instalment was delayed by more than a month. He said, […]
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Mysuru district administration, to avoid crowding, has asked all vegetable and fruit vendors to get push carts if they have to sell at open marketplaces. Mysuru: Tayamma has wonderfully arranged brinjals, carrots, tomatoes and capsicums on a push-cart. However, her face, tattooed with wrinkles, does not reflect the emotion involved in doing so. “It has […]
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Drop in demand and increase in prices have left mango farmers struggling. Ramanagara: Farmers in the district are finding it difficult to harvest mangoes that are left rotting in farms due to lockdown restrictions. Small scale farmers in Ramanagara district,the second-largest mango producer in Karnataka after Kolar district, are looking at huge losses, as restrictions […]
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Around four lakh litres of toddy is dumped every day because toddy shops are closed and there are no customers. Kerala: The Covid-19 pandemic has not only affected the business of toddy shops, but also toddy tappers. Customers have reduced due to the second wave of Covid-19 induced lockdown. Toddy tappers have been given orders by the government to […]
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The cyclone has washed away Maharashtra’s mango farmers’ hopes of earning a profit and put an end to their plans for the Mango Jatra in Indore. Indore: Gusty winds and heavy rainfall, effects of the cyclonic storm Tauktae, gave sleepless nights to many mango farmers in the Konkan region of Maharashtra. The Mango Jatra, an […]
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As prices plunge, farmers leave the harvest to rot in the farms. Bengaluru: Farmers in Karnataka are letting tomatoes rot on the plant because prices are so low that they do not find it worth their money to transport the crop. Chandrakumar, a tomato farmer in Doddaballapura said, “I harvested almost 20 tons of tomato […]
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The Indore municipal corporation has been unable to prevent street vendors from violating the corona guideline. In Indore Madhya Pradesh, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan declared today that a full lockdown, termed “strict Janta Curfew,” will be enforced in the state starting from May 6 and will last until May 15. Only from 7 a.m. to […]
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Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are heading towards the Delhi borders on their tractors. Chandigarh: The farmers are proceeding towards the Delhi border in full force to continue with the protests against the implementation of the farm laws. “The wheat has been harvested, and the farmers are ready to go back,” said Gaurav […]
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