The Hindu

A five-day international workshop and expo on value addition of crops beginning here on Thursday will provide a platform for exchange of ideas on global trends and emerging technologies, marketing, and investment opportunities in agro processing.

Meri News

In Odisha’s Nauapada district farmers have alleged that they suffered huge losses in paddy crop in the current Kharif season because government’s sale centres provided them bad quality seeds. According to Krushak Shakti Sansthan (KSS) at least 17 farmers have lost their crops because of of bad quality or outdated seeds in district’s Domjhar panchayat alone. The KSS, however, added that the situation prevails all over the district and the actual numbers of the farmers hit by crop failure is much higher.

 

The Times of India

The present liquidity crunch, however, has left him jittery. There was a bumper crop this time and he expected a better price. Before demonetization, the price of paddy per quintal was around Rs 1,300. But after November 8, it came down to Rs 1,200. Residents of Chintamoni’s Burigram village in Singur are afraid that they might have to go for distress sale. I heaved a sigh of relief after the government announced the minimum support price at Rs 1,490 per quintal, he said.

The Times of India

With the state facing a 69% deficit in rainfall, a team of senior bureaucrats has fanned out to assess the impact of the water shortage on crop production and livestock in the state. The development also comes in the wake of the opposition clamoring for declaring the state as drought-hit, akin to 2012-13, but the government is undecided since a revival of monsoon is forecast from December 1.

The Indian Express

As we complete three weeks since the government’s demonetisation announcement, it appears that the various economic agents in the agricultural value chain have adjusted smartly to the reality of a temporary drying up of cash in the system.

The Indian Express

There are four major crops currently being planted or in the early stages of growth — wheat, onion, potato and chana (chickpea) — whose status needs close monitoring in the coming weeks, to ensure least production disruptions from demonetisation-imposed cash crunch. In three of the four commodities, tight supplies have already led to price rise. Wheat is now retailing in Delhi at Rs 24 per kg, up from Rs 19 at this time last year. This, even as stocks in government warehouses have depleted to a 9-year-low. Retail prices of milled chana dal and potato are, likewise, averaging Rs 140 and Rs 20 per kg, respectively, as against their corresponding levels of Rs 70 and Rs ...

DNA India

India remained the fastest growing major economy with its GDP accelerating to 7.3% in the September quarter, pushed mainly by farm output, although the momentum may be hit in the coming months by the impact of demonetization.

Business Standard

Vice Chancellor, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Dr. Ajit Kumar pitched for corporatization of farming sector to integrate agriculture and farmers with prosperity and well being as this could be the single Mantra to double the farmers’ income as is being intended by the government of the day under Prime Minister Mr. Modi.