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Agriculture Industry
Arvind Kejriwal promises to make Punjab a progressive dairy farming stateedit
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday promised to revive the economy of Punjab with dairy farming as its mainstay. Speaking at the Annual Pashu Mela of Progressive Dairy Farmers Association (PDFA) at Jagraon, Kejriwal said that dairy farming will be the bedrock occupation for removing unemployment in Punjab when the Aam Aadmi Party forms government here. He announced that interest free loans will be given to dairy farmers when AAP comes to power.
Wind turbines may favour growing condition of crops, says studyedit
Corn and soyabeans that are close to wind turbines grow in more favourable conditions as turbulence created by wind influences temperature and carbon dioxide concentration, a new research has revealed. The researchers from the Iowa State University (ISU) installed research towers on a 200-turbine wind farm in Iowa and collected data from 2010 to 2013 on wind speeds and directions, temperature, humidity, turbulence, gas content and precipitation.
Paddy farmers in distress as no takers for produceedit
The acute cash crisis triggered by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surgical strike against black money casts a shadow over the khariff harvest in the Krishna and the Godavari deltas. The growers are forced to defer harvesting paddy crop for want of cash to engage workers.
Centre playing with farmers livesedit
The Central Government’s move to waive import duty on wheat has come in for a huge criticism from the Telangana Rythu Sangham. It may be noted here that Centre slashed duty on wheat imports a couple of days ago; citing that the decision was made to keep inflation under control after the wheat prices hit a record high.
Did Centre scrap wheat import duties to safeguard PDS next year?edit
The Centre’s decision to cut the import duty on wheat from 10 per cent to zero during the peak sowing season might look like an anti-farmer measure. But, officials and traders say that with stocks in government godowns falling, the move is to prevent any chance of import on government account to run the public distribution system (PDS) next year (2017-18) India annually requires 27-30 million tonnes of wheat to run its PDS, which should not be difficult to procure if private players have adequate stocks in their pipeline.
Will ensure that crop insurance covers entire loss: Gopal Bhargavaedit
“We will ensure that crop insurance is not merely a relief but it covers the entire loss due to destruction of crops,” said rural development minister Gopal Bhargava at a programme organised here to disburse insurance claims amounts to farmers. The audience also watched live the CM addressing a similar programme at Sehore.
Kharge urges farmers in Karnatakato take up dairy farmingedit
M. Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, has called upon farmers in the State, especially those from the Hyderabad Karnataka region, to take up dairy farming. He was here to inaugurate Krishi Mela, a three-day annual expo of farm technology, at the agricultural research Station, off Aland Road, on Friday. The event was organised by University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur (UAS-R), its allied institutions, the Department of Agriculture and the Hyderabad Karnataka Region Development Board.
Krishi Mela begins in Kalaburagiedit
Krishi Mela, an annual expo of farm technologies, began on the Agricultural Research Station premises here on Saturday. Congress leader in the Lok Sabha Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge inaugurated the three-day event. Thousands of farmers and farm enthusiasts arrived from different parts of the district on the first day. Over 100 stalls were put up for displaying newer agricultural technologies, farm equipment, machineries, pesticides and fertilizer apart from non-agricultural commercial products. Government departments too established couple of shops to spread awareness about the schemes and programmes introduced by the government for the welfare of farmers.