Gujarat govt extends curiosity waiver on crop mortgage repayments until June 30, 2021

Amid the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has introduced an extension of curiosity waiver on reimbursement of crop loans from the cooperative sector until thirtieth June 2021.
The final date for reimbursement expired on the thirty first of March, nonetheless, in view of the continued disaster the reimbursement interval has been prolonged for farmers who had taken loans from the cooperative sector between 1st April to thirtieth September 2020.
Additionally, the state of Gujarat has determined to reimburse the complete curiosity rebate on reimbursement made until the thirtieth of June which is able to present massive reduction to the farmers who’ve taken crop loans. 
According to NABARD’s Credit Policy, the lenders within the cooperative sector have been offered brief time period crop loans at 7% curiosity, the Central Government has offered a 3% rebate on curiosity and the Gujarat Government has offered a 4% rebate on this for well timed reimbursement.
The intention is to cost no curiosity on loans to farmers to advertise well timed reimbursement. The farmers can now repay the curiosity free loans as much as June 30, 2021.
No hike in costs of fertilisers 
The Centre in April had directed fertiliser corporations to not enhance the utmost retail value (MRP) of non-urea fertilisers corresponding to DAP and requested them to stay to the previous charges contemplating the continued disaster.
Mansukh Mandviya the Union Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Union Minister of State for Chemical and Fertilizers had tweeted saying “Giving priority to the interest of the farming community, there won’t be any increase in prices of fertilisers”.
किसानों के हित को प्राधान्य देते हुए फर्टिलाइजर्स की कीमत में कोई बढ़ोतरी नही होगी। pic.twitter.com/ueCGo8saiq— Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) April 9, 2021
“Farmers will continue to get DAP, MoP and NPK nutrients at old rates,” he added
Direct Benefit Transfers to farmers of Punjab & Haryana
For the primary time, the farmers from Punjab are receiving direct on-line funds for his or her produce on the decided MSP and at the least 1,64,455 farmers from Punjab have been in a position to profit from the DBT scheme.
This was attainable after the central authorities refused to increase the deadline to implement the DBT course of simply forward of the procurement after the state sought one more exemption. 
The Centre had been pursuing the Punjab authorities since 2016-16 to get the state to implement direct on-line cost into farmers’ accounts. However, the state had been routinely approaching the Centre for granting exemption and extension of time.