Deccan Chronicle

The Telangana government on Monday presented a welfare-oriented, tax-free budget, focusing on irrigation and reviving traditional occupations of the backward classes, for 2017-18 with a proposed expenditure of nearly Rs 1.50 lakh crore (Farmers)

Daily Kashmir Images

The optimum beauty of the place reinforces sweetness in every crop and produce that grows around here. But unfortunately this is not the whole picture of the state of agriculture in the state. Fact of the matter remains that Jammu and Kashmir desperately lags behind in agriculture and allied sectors so much so that the state is not able to fulfill its own needs of food.

The Financial Express

A group of software professionals from Chennai have come together to provide succour to families of farmers who had died in Nagapattinam district recently distressed over failure of crops due to drought. The group of 500 software professionals formed the ‘Vivasaayanadu Trust’ last month and initially, they have identified ten families in the distict to provide immediate assistance like groceries and rice.

Deccan Herald

Until a few years ago, I knew only two varieties of wheat. Now, I have 11 in my collection,” says Kalmesh Mallad, a farmer, who has recently joined the band of seed conservers in Belagavi district. Visiting the farm of Kalmesh Mallad in Betsur village of Savadatti taluk in Belagavi district can be a revelation to many farmers in the region who have limited knowledge about heritage wheat varieties.

Odisha TV

The session is set to be a stormy one with opposition parties all set to corner the agriculture minister on a wide range of issues such as farmers’ suicides, the short-term pains and the structural problems and crisis of state agriculture.