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Agriculture Industry
Nizamabad Paddy farmers facing immense hardshipsedit
Paddy farmers Potha Reddy and Narayana set their crops ablaze at Langdhapur village in the district on Thursday. A farmer tried to commit suicide while others of Lagdhapur, Pentanlan and Pegadapalli in Bodhan mandal turned their paddy crop lands into grazing lands as the crops got dried up due to lack of irrigation water.
Integrated farming can making agriculture profitable: Ministeredit
Minister for Agriculture, Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura Thursday asked for promotion of Integrated Farming to make agriculture a profitable activity. He asked the agriculture department to establish Integrated Farming Units in each village to realize maximum return from the agriculture land.
Haryana to come out with scheme to make farming a profitable ventureedit
Haryana government is implementing a number of schemes to uplift the farmers through provisions of subsidies, increased productivity and marketing of produce to help them in making farming profitable. Agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister OP Dhankar said on Thursday in a written reply to a question put up by INLD MLA Parminder Singh Dhull during ongoing budget session of state assembly here.
Announced 6 yrs back, new Agriculture Policy for J&K fails to become realityedit
Establishing non-serious approach towards fast shrinking farm land in Jammu and Kashmir, the Agriculture Production Department has failed to come up with new Agriculture Policy which was first announced six years back and subsequently after regular intervals not only in official meetings but also on the floor of the State Legislature. As per the official figures, 70% of Jammu and Kashmir population depends directly or indirectly on agriculture and its allied sectors and these sectors constitute the mainstay of the State’s economy and contribute nearly 50% to GSDP.
Farmers are using futures contracts to counter price risksedit
In a bumper crop year when farmers across the country have been battered by lower crop prices, farmers’ groups are using futures contracts to hedge against price dips during the harvest season.
Kerala budget 2017: Need to arrest decline in agriculture, says economic reviewedit
Concerned over stagnation or even a decline in the growth of agriculture and allied sectors, the Economic Review-2016, has called for devising strategies to deal with the adverse conditions affecting them to revive the growth momentum.
Technology in Agriculture
M&M to focus on full-line farm machinery segmentedit
Mahindra & Mahindra is no longer just India’s leading tractor manufacturer. It’s also the number-one tractor maker globally by volumes. But M&M wants a lot more. CNBC-TV18’s Farah Bookwala Vhora reports that the company is going full-throttle on a global strategy to transform itself into a full-line farm machinery player.