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Consult with farmers on Agriculture Budget: Stalin
The Hindu
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has advised Ministers and officials to ensure that both the Annual Budget and newly proposed Agriculture Budget include inputs from farmers, experts and representatives to b
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has advised Ministers and officials to ensure that both the Annual Budget and newly proposed Agriculture Budget include inputs from farmers, experts and representatives to boost the economy of the State. “The Chief Minister has advised Ministers and senior government officials to consult with farmers, agricultural experts and farmers’ associations to take their inputs so as to design special schemes that would benefit them,” an official release said. As for the Annual Budget, consultations could be held with economists, representatives from industries, industrial federations, MSME associations, commerce chambers, fishermen associations, among others to include their inputs, it said. The State government would present two budgets, including one for agriculture and farmers welfare, in line with the promise made in the DMK election manifesto, it added.![](/newspic/picid-1269750-20250217064624.jpg)
When fed into Latin, pusilla comes out denoting “very small”. The Baillon’s crake can be missed in the field, when it is at a distance, as the magnification of the human eye is woefully short of what it takes to pick up this tiny creature. The other factor is the Baillon’s crake’s predisposition to present less of itself: it moves about furtively and slides into the reeds at the slightest suspicion of being noticed. But if you are keen on observing the Baillon’s crake or the ruddy breasted crake in the field, in Chennai, this would be the best time to put in efforts towards that end. These birds live amidst reeds, the bulrushes, which are likely to lose their density now as they would shrivel and go brown, leaving wide gaps, thereby reducing the cover for these tiddly birds to stay inscrutable.