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Firstpost Editor's Picks: Crop loan disbursement in poll-bound Aurangabad, repo rate cut, Joker movie review; today's must-read stories

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Crop loan disbursement in poll-bound Aurangabad, India vs South Africa test at Vizag, Joker movie review; today's must-read stories

Budget 2019: Govt may hike farm credit target by about 10 percent to record Rs 12 lakh crore

For the current fiscal, the government has set a credit target of Rs 11 lakh crore

Farm woes to take centrestage in the new year as poll battle looms

The agriculture sector, which remained in distress during 2018 as crop prices slumped due to bumper production, will be in the spotlight in the new year as the BJP-ruled central government is set to roll out a big package to assuage the angry farming community ahead of the general elections.

Farm distress: Govt mulls waiving interest on timely crop loan repayment as new year gift for farmers

To provide immediate relief, one of the proposals being studied is to waive 4 percent interest rate on farmers repaying farm loan promptly within the due date.

Farm loan waivers to touch $40 billion by 2019 Lok Sabha elections, says Bank of America Merrill Lynch report

Farm loan waivers, along with minimum support price (MSP) hikes, will support rural demand at a time of stress, says the report

In letter to Piyush Goyal, Devendra Fadnavis asks Centre to direct all Maharashtra banks to fast-track crop loan disbursal

Devendra Fadnavis wrote a letter to the Centre, demanding that all banks be directed to expedite the process of disbursing crop loans to farmers.

Tamil Nadu farmers threaten to commit suicide, march nude if Centre fails to fulfil their demands

The Tamil Nadu farmers, who have resorted to increasingly desperate modes of protest for loan waiver and other demands, now say they plan to march nude and even attempt suicide

Yogi Adityanath condemns previous govts for ignoring farmers, says UP politics will now focus on cultivators

Farmers were not the priority for the governments in Uttar Pradesh for the last 14-15 years but the situation has changed, and the politics now will be farmer and youth-centric, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Thursday

Bhupinder Singh Hooda blames Centre's 'anti-farmer' policies for spate of suicides

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Sunday hit out at the Centre, claiming that tillers are at crossroads and staring at a disaster due to its "anti-farmer" policies

Yogi Adityanath govt's farm loan waiver of Rs 35,000 cr an 'unfulfilled promise', claims Congress

The Congress on Tuesday dubbed the UP government's decision to waive farm loans as an "unfulfilled promise" and said time has come for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to fulfil their promises to farmers in toto.