Farmer Loans

Maharashtra farmer consumes poison in attempt to commit suicide after bank in Aurangabad denies crop loan; condition critical

A farmer tried to commit suicide inside the premises of a bank in Aurangabad on Saturday after he was allegedly denied a crop loan, police said.

Two farmers in Maharashtra's Buldhana end their lives, police say suicides were due to difficulties in loan repayment

Two debt-ridden farmers allegedly committed suicide in Buldhana district of Maharashtra

Farm loan waivers, Aadhaar linking and the role of MahaOnline: Maharashtra IT secretary's claims debunked

Barely four days in, the Winter Session of the Maharashtra Assembly has already seen its fair share of agitation. The source of ire: The flawed implementation of the farmer loan waiver scheme

Centre should waive farmer loans across country, not just in election-bound states: Yogendra Yadav

Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav on Monday demanded that the central government waive loans of all farmers across states.

Maharashtra loan waiver muddle: Devendra Fadnavis has misled farmers, Sharad Pawar tells Firstpost

"Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis believes that loan waivers only help banks and that most cooperative banks are controlled by the NCP and Congress," Sharad Pawar told Firstpost

Maharashtra and farm loan waivers: Farmers say Devendra Fadnavis govt raised their hopes only to shatter them

When Devendra Fadnavis promised a farm loan waiver on 6 June, he told the media it would be “the biggest in history.” What has turned out to be the biggest, however, is the number of conditions to qualify for the ‘waiver’.

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

Maharashtra farmers' protest: Four commit suicide in Nashik in two days

Four debt-ridden farmers allegedly committed suicide in the last two days in Nashik district where one of them set up his own funeral pyre, officials said on Thursday.

Punjab announces loan waiver of upto Rs 2 lakh for farmers owning five acres of land

Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh on Monday announced total waiver of entire crop loans for small and marginal farmers.

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.