Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that the policies of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre have "broken the backbone" of small businesses while benefitting selected businessmen.
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that Madhya Pradesh has started exporting agricultural products. The farmers have now become Urja Data along with Annadata.
Local farmers in the Parwan province of Afghanistan called on the government to ban the smuggling of poultry in the country as they complained of damage to business due to malpractice.
The issue of stubble burning turns out to be a hot topic of discussion, especially at the onset of winter with the deteriorating air quality in Delhi NCR every year.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that in case of non-payment of agricultural loans, farmers must be given time for repayment and not confiscate or auction their property.
A revenue official, who visited a village in the Faridkot district of Punjab, was held hostage by a group of farmers. Farmers agreed to free the official only after getting written assurance from the administration.
The farmers demanded a written assurance of no challan over the burning of their stubble and said that the official will not be set free until their demands are met.
Chief Minister Yogi said that the new food processing policy to be soon introduced by the state government will pay special attention to the concerns raised by the entrepreneurs in the MSME sector.
Local farmers in Punjab's Bathinda district expressed their dissatisfaction over Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led state government's failure to find an alternative to the stubble burning problem.