The Hans India

Farmers should be sensitised on organic cultivation coupled with conservation of water through drip-irrigation methods. Our ancestors achieved wonderful results practicing natural farming. The farmers should make use of the incentives and subsidies and practice effective water management methods for increasing their revenues.

The Times of India

“Whether agriculture results in profit or loss depends on the farming practices,” said Sakthikumar citing his own experience. He had started by taking 16 acres on lease in 2006 to cultivate drumstick organically. Unfortunately, the area was water starved and labour scarce. In a year, he burned `8 lakh. “I spent `2 lakh on cow dung, `2 lakh on drips and `1 lakh on lease for five years. The rest went towards buying drumstick saplings and labour.

The Statesman

In order to improve agrarian economy of Himachal Pradesh, Japan International Agency (JAICA) is helping in implementation of a crop diversification project worth `321 crore in the five districts of the state. A state government official said JAICA is helping in implementing HP Crop Diversification Promotion Project in Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Mandi, Kangra and Una districts of the state.

Business Insider

Continue reading With a vast untapped potential in agriculture, African countries are keen to gain from India’s experiences, including the “green revolution”, to bring about a transformation and enable their 420 million poor people to come out of poverty. Africa is estimated to have 65 percent of world’s uncultivated land but only about 10 percent of global food output. African Development Bank (AfDB) officials said after their annual meeting here last week that its focus on “transforming agriculture to create wealth” has sparked interest among a vast section, including youth, researchers and the private sector to treat agriculture as a business.

Hindi Business Standard

Liaquat Ali, of Meerut, had a flourishing business as a cattle trader, supplying animals to local slaughterhouses, including some prominent meat exporters. But, for the last few months, his business has dwindled. If the crackdown on ‘illegal’ abattoirs by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh (UP) was not enough, Friday’s notification on the sale and purchase of animals from markets might leave Ali with hardly any option but to shut up shop

Nyoooz

Even though the opposition parties have created a political storm over complete loan waiver, the cooperative banks remain to be a vital source for crop loan disbursement to the farmers in the state. An official from the Kolhapur District Central Cooperative Bank (KDCCB) said, “In the latest instruction from the cooperative department of the state government on May 26, the department has asked for detailed information on outstanding crop loan, agri-term loan with interest between the financial year 2011 and 2017.

Dainik Yashobhumi

Gold prices continued to rise for the second week in a row, mainly due to rise in precious metals. Considering the strengthening of overseas amidst the sustained buying of local jewelers to meet the marriage season demand in the domestic spot market, gold bullion market has increased in the last week in the national capital’s Sarrapha market.

Nyoooz

A day after TOI reported about 80% of the mango yield of the state has been destroyed due to weather and mango midge-locally known as Rujji, a team led by district agriculture safety officer conducted a drive in the mango belt of Malihabad, Mall and Kakori to spread awareness about the problem and its possible solution. Besides pesticide traders were raided to check its quality

The Times of India

Aiming to promote cotton sowing and providing technical knowledge about cotton sowing, a cotton yard set up by Punjab agricultural marketing board at Barnala grain market nearly six years ago worth over Rs 5 crore has not been used for the purpose it was set up. The area sees less sowing of cotton crop and the yard instead of motivating farmers towards cotton had been used for storing wheat and paddy during the procurement seasons, twice a year.

Daily Post

As the farming plays an important role in the economy of Himachal Pradesh with its 15 percent contribution to the State Gross Domestic Product, the state government has been emphasizing on agriculture and its related sectors.

The Hindu Business Line

RCEP is being negotiated between India and 15 other countries including the 10-member Asean, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia and China. With a high rate of poverty, a large rural population consisting mainly of small and marginal farmers and landless labourers, an immature industrial sector, a growing but narrow service sector and vulnerable health and education sectors, India had very rightly maintained a cautious approach in its FTAs on goods, intellectual property rights, and many new issues such as investment, government procurement and competition policy.

Capital Market

Different inputs such as urea and phosphatic and potassic fertilizers have different rates of subsidies. It will be premature to accept that all the farmers will be able to buy their requirements of fertilizers at market rate and wait for 15 days or a month to get subsidies. (Zuari)

Deccan Herald

At the same time, I see no justification in allowing the multinational seed company, Monsanto India, to claim tax exemptions of Rs 94.40 crore from agricultural income. Another seed giant, Kaveri Seeds, claimed Rs 186.63 crore exemption and made a profit of Rs 215.36 crore before tax.

Sakshi

Monsanto is also credited with creating the highest gene exchanges worldwide. It has come to rule the world seed market. In 1998, the World Bank gained a monopoly over the Monsanto cotton seed that brought us into our country with a simplified seed method of recycling. Most of the farmers committed suicide in the country are BT. Cotton grown farmers.