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Direct Benefit Transfer [a] or DBT is an attempt to change the mechanism of transferring subsidies launched by Government of India on 1 January 2013. This scheme or program aims to establish a Giro system to transfer subsidies directly to the people through their linked bank accounts.
Kunbi (alternatively Kanbi) (Marathi: ISO 15919: Kuṇabī, Gujarati: ISO 15919: Kaṇabī) [1] [2] [3] is a generic term applied to several castes of traditional farmers in Western India. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] These include the Dhonoje, Ghatole, Masaram, Hindre, Jadav, Jhare, Khaire, Lewa ( Leva Patil ), Lonare and Tirole communities of Vidarbha ...
Traditionally being shepherds, cowherds, buffalo keepers, blanket and wool weavers, butchers and farmers, the Dhangars were late to take up modern-day education. In Maharashtra , the Dhangars are classified as a Nomadic Tribe but in 2014 were seeking to be reclassified as a Scheduled Tribe in India's system of reservation . [ 42 ]
The main objective of the NABKISAN is to provide credit for promotion, expansion and commercialization of enterprises in agriculture, allied and rural non-farm activities. It has extended support to 550 FPOs across various states in the country with cumulative assistance of more than Rs 225 crore.
The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, also known as Farmer Mac, is a stockholder-owned, publicly traded company that was chartered by the United States federal government in 1988 to serve as a secondary market in agricultural loans such as mortgages for agricultural real estate and rural housing. The company purchases loans from ...
Doubling farmers' income (DFI) is a target set by the government of India in February 2016 to be achieved by 2022. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The DFI Committee submitted hundreds of recommendations to this effect in September 2018 and is empowered to oversee their implementation.
Sharemilking is the application of the sharefarming concept to the dairy industry; it is particularly common in New Zealand but is not unheard of elsewhere. The specific arrangement to which the term sharemilking is understood (via synecdoche) to apply is less ambiguously known as herd-owning or fifty-fifty sharemilking.
Bharat Bhushan Tyagi (born 1954) is an Indian farmer, educator and trainer from Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, [3] [4] who was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, in 2019. [1] [5] He organises weekly training for farmers at Bulandshahr and has trained over 80,000 farmers. [6]