kisan panchayat

On Akshaya Tritiya, the Odisha government disbursed Rs 838.48 crore to 41.68 lakh farmers under the CM Kisan Yojana, providing Rs 2,000 each. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi also launched the Ama Bihana Ratha to improve seed access and highlighted the state's agricultural growth and procurement efforts.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma faced sharp criticism from the Kisan Mahapanchayat for his remarks suggesting farmers work only 25-30 days a year. The farmers' group accused the CM of deflecting from government failures in ensuring fair prices for agricultural produce and demanded an apology.

The first mahila kisan panchayat at the khap chabutra of Kandela village in this district on Thursday will support the farmers’ agitation against three agri-marketing laws. Women from various districts of Haryana will participate.

Congress party has said that it is ready to hold the kisan panchayat at some other place if the UP government refused permission for Bhatta-Parsaul, the epicentre of the recent stir against forcible land acquisition.

Peeved over the non-payment of wages to more than 200 farm labourers in Hardoi district for the last 13 months, Kisan Manch on Sunday held a kisan panchayat in tehsil Sandila (of Hardoi district).

The state government will organise a kisan panchayat on February 17 in Patna to solicit views from farmers to give final touches to the roadmap for the agriculture and allied sectors.

Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani would be visiting Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency where she stood runner up in the last year’s general election, on May 12 to hold a kisan panchayat.

Former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Saturday that he would hold kisan panchayats in all 22 districts of the state to raise farmers’ issues. He said that similar meetings would be held with traders, employees and others in days to come to take up their issues against the ruling BJP government, which had “failed on all fronts”.

In an effort to ensure a rich harvest in the coming 2012 assembly elections in the state, chief minister Mayawati on Thursday directed district magistrates to withdraw all cases related to land acquisition against farmers within a week and hold ‘kisan panchayat’ once a month to redress their grievances.

Farmers, at the kisan panchayat in Chhoti Milakh, have voiced the need for the UP state government to allow builders to negotiate over prices of land with them directly.

Union HRD minister Smriti Irani along with minister of state for agriculture and food processing Sanjeev Balliyan would be interacting with farmers at various kisan panchayats scheduled to be held in Amethi on Monday. Baliyan's presence at Amethi is likely to bring back the issue of huge crop loss due to unseasonal rain. His presence is also likely to rake up the issue of closure of the mega food park in the district. Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi had recently alleged that it was done at the behest of the Central government.

A state-level kisan panchayat held in Panipat on Sunday served a seven-day ultimatum to the state government to fix the state advised price (SAP) for sugarcane at Rs 450 per quintal.

A state-level kisan panchayat held in Panipat on Sunday served a 7-day ultimatum to the state government to fix the State Advised Price (SAP) to Rs 450 per quintal for sugarcane crop.