Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Govt committed to development of cooperatives: Agri Minedit
The government is committed to the development and strengthening of the cooperatives that have provided a direct and indirect employment to about 23.86 millions people in many sectors of the economy, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said today.
Agriculture Traders Feel Pain as Plentiful Harvests Persistedit
Years of bumper grain harvests, coupled with low prices and diminished volatility in many markets, are making it tougher for the world’s biggest agriculture companies to make money buying and selling major crops like wheat, corn and soybeans. Now, firms including U.S. processor Archer-Daniels-Midlands Co. and Chinese food giant Cofco Corp. are restructuring or scaling back their ambitions.
Budget
Ajay Mathur: The Budget needed to be greeneredit
The Union Budget, as expected, focused on rural development, agriculture and allied sectors, with allocations in these areas going up by 24 per cent, compared to the previous Budget. The prospects for India’s agriculture, and about half of the country’s workforce that depends on it, is intrinsically linked to the health of the natural resource base that sustains it.