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Agriculture Industry
We had already ended ‘kurki’: Badaledit
Reacting to Congress cabinet’s decision to scrap the sale of agricultural land for recovery of loans by cooperative banks (kurki), former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the Amarinder Singh government to go beyond this and not try to gain cheap political mileage by repeating what the previous government had already done.
Guava growers reaping rich returns: Collectoredit
A majority of farmers who had grown guava in the district in recent months were happy as they had been getting a good price for the produce, said Collector K. Veera Raghava Rao here on Wednesday.
Is there a reason to cheer record horticulture harvest?edit
India’s agriculture markets are notoriously fragmented. So, some months back when farmers in Chhattisgarh were forced to let their tomatoes rot, consumers in Chennai were paying Rs20 per kg. This too needs to be corrected if the success of a bumper crop has to translate to better farm incomes.
Vietnam’s Pepper Price Hurts Exportsedit
Black pepper exporters fear a repeat of last year’s record low, with Vietnam selling at nearly half the price offered by India. “Vietnam is currently selling at around $4,500 per tonne, which translates to about .`300 per kg. Indian price is around $7,400 per tonne, while Sri Lankan pepper is going at $7,000 per tonne,” said Prakash Namboodiri, chairman of All India Spices Exporters Forum.
Vegetable Supply to Mumbai, Pune may be Hit after Farmers’ Talks Failedit
Residents in India’s commercial capital might need to ration their dinner portions as talks between farmers and the state on loan waivers and farmgate prices remained deadlocked, prompting producers to halt supplies of vegetables and dairy to the city from Thursday. Mumbai and Pune are among the cities likely to be hit by the strike after the farmers failed to secure their demands from the Maharashtra government on the waiver of loans and remunerative prices, as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission.
Now, drones, RST to help Haryana decide crop cover compensationedit
Development is significant, as the current process of CCE carried by the authorities was being questioned even by agriculture officers of the department, who had resorted to strike in September 2016. They had claimed that present method of carrying out CCE lacked reliability which may affect the claims settlement of farmers in future. CCE is required to be done for all notified crops in the notified insurance units to assess the crop yield.
Farmers training on horticulture crops for Phek district underwayedit
Five days farmers training programme on horticulture crops for Phek district is underway which was launched at Chetheba Village on May 30 organized by Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH), Medziphema in collaboration with the District Horticulture Office, Phek. The inaugural programme was launched with a participation of more than 50 farmers from six neighbouring villages.
One More Blow To GM Firms Like Monsantoedit
Even as the courts decide on the battle between GM firm Monsanto and one of its licensees Nuziveedu Seeds, the government appears to have considerably whittled down the powers the former has in terms of collecting royalties on its patented gene.
Global team of scientists resequences genome of 292 pigeonpea varietiesedit
The nine collaborating institutes are the School of Agriculture and Environment and Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia; Shenzhen Millennium Genomics Inc, China; Macrogen Inc, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Institute of Biotechnology, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU), Hyderabad, India; Agricultural Research Station, Gulbarga, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Karnataka, India; The Department of Plant Sciences