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Mah working on proposal to make farmers debt free: CMedit
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday told the Legislative Assembly that a proposal is being prepared to make farmers “debt-free”, which will be forwarded to Centre. The CM’s statement came at a time when the Congress and the NCP have been vociferously raising the demand for complete loan waiver for farmers in Maharashtra.
Decision on wheat duty in final stages of agri ministry’s considerationedit
He rued the fact that when people get access to water, they immediately switch over to water-intensive crops, which is not the right practice. “We must try to economise the use of water in the sense that you can share it with others or by growing more crops.” Pattanayak stated that the government was laying special emphasis on the watershed approach to agriculture.
Bhopal: ICARDA doing great work for farmers said APCedit
Over 300 farmers participated in the meet. Agriculture scientists introduced them to Food and Legume Research Platform and the new techniques. They were also told about new varieties of various crops developed by the ICARDA. The director of the Institute Dr Ashutosh Sarkar said that the new varieties are sturdier and more nutritious.
Agriculture Newsletter – March 20 to March 24, 2017edit
Top News India’s monsoon may duck El Nino unscathed -IMD India’s monsoon is likely to come unharmed from the El Nino weather pattern as it is expected to set only during the end of the 4-month monsoon season as reported by the weather department.
Odisha House adopts resolution to hike paddy MSPedit
The Assembly on Saturday adopted a unanimous resolution recommending to the State Government to urge the Centre to increase the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy to `2,930 per quintal. Agriculture Minister Pradip Maharathy said a House Committee comprising members from all political parties will be set up under the chairmanship of Speaker Niranjan Pujari to take up the matter with the Centre. The committee will meet the Prime Minister and take up the issue in the interest of the farmers, he added.
Kerala seeks Rs 1,000 crore from Centre to face worst drought in 115 yearsedit
With the State facing the worst drought in the past 115 years, the Government of Kerala asks the Centre to release a relief assistance of close to Rs 1,000 crore. Kerala Ministers are expected to meet Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan Singh and others on March 28.
Farm diaries—exchanging field notes in Nagalandedit
On an early morning of early March, a group of Gorkha farmers—from the Lepcha and Subbah communities of Kalimpong district, West Bengal—are on a visit to Chakhesang terrace paddy fields in Enhulumi village, Phek district. But it is not the terrace fields that hold the fancy of the guests. It is the uncultivated biodiversity that grows alongside the wet and dry terrace paddy fields that fascinate them—some herb is a cure for kidney diseases, another for stomach ailments; snails, fish and frog have their own stories.
Where is the data to support the government’s rationale for linking the Ken and Betwa rivers?edit
Spades and shovels will soon hit the banks of the Ken river in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh. On February 11, a committee of officials from the Union Ministry of Water Resources and the NITI Aayog approved an investment of Rs 18,000 crores for a project that will channelise water from the Ken to the Betwa river, about 250 km away.
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