Pragativadi

100 agro service center will be make this year very soon. The Department of Agriculture is setting up a network of agro service centres to provide labour support, planting material, fertilizers, and organic pesticides to farmers. OSCB disburses the loan through 2705 Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS) working under the 17 District Cooperative Central Banks (DCCB) across the state,

Daily Post

A new technology for the testing of moisture of food grains viz. Paddy, Rice, Wheat, Maize, Coffee etc. has been developed by CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh and launched by M/s R L Wason & Co, Jalandhar, Punjab for the first time in India.

Navbharat

minister of Food and Civil Supplies Shri Babulal Verma said that the resolution of doubling the income of the farmers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Minister of the State of Smt Vasundhara Raje can be fulfilled only when the farmers go ahead with time and technology. He said that with the help of technical assistance the yield will increase and only then the state’s feeder will become strong and strong.

Nafa Nuksan

In the absence of demand from wheat Haryana Rs 15/20 rupee due to the incessant increase of wheat from UP Haryana and last month due to the demand for complete flour in the flour Maida Sugi

Dainik Yashobhumi

A Karnataka based farmers company, in which father of Geetha Gopinath, advisor to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, is a director, today said there was no irregularities in the supply of vegetables to Kerala through Horticulture Corporation. Talking to reporters here, Raitamitra Farmers Producer Company Ltd Chiarman K Shanthakumar said the company was supplying vegetables and fruits directly to Horticorporation after following due procedures.

Hindustan Times

In just a decade, farmers in Nashik’s Shivde village have scripted a success story for themselves. This village of grape growers, around 161km from Mumbai, on an average produces 1,000 tonnes of global quality grapes that get exported to Europe, through direct purchase agreements with big firms.

Huffpost

Assam and most of the undulating, hilly and mountainous terrains inhabited by tribal folk had always experienced a different set of circumstances. Assam had a relaxed land situation until the unwelcome guests form Bangladesh started large-scale migration. Most of the rural denizens tend to be complacent and satisfied with their lifestyle rather than ambitiously trying to intensify their farm operations. The widely prevalent free grazing after the Sali crop is harvested validates this assessment. Most native farmers of Assam continue to enjoy a reasonably large land holding even now.

Deccan Chronicle

The state government has cut crop production estimates for the agriculture season for 2017-18. The government readies the State Agriculture Action Plan before every monsoon to project production estimates for kharif and rabi seasons. The report is released in the second week of June. The overall food grains production estimate has been brought down to 90.89 lakh metric tonnes this year against the 97.41 lakh metric tonnes projected last year.

The Times of India

Expressing shock at the development of transgenic sorghum, the Southern Action on Genetic Engineering (SAGE) on Friday demanded a “firm and unequivocal” stand against GM sorghum by the Centre. It has asked the Centre to clearly state that it will not approve GM jowar.

The Statesman

Every time a corporate scientist inserts a novel gene into a plant cell, the gene ends up in a random location in the plant’s genome. All that the scientists can do is to pray that the new gene will not destabilize a safe food and make it toxic. When researchers Pryme and Rolf Lembcke conducted studies about the possible health consequences of genetically modified food, they concluded that genetic engineering creates widespread genetic mutations in thousands of locations throughout the genome!