Hindustan Times

Under the e-NAM, farmers sell their produce through a unified virtual market within and outside the state. Farmers bring their produce to the mandi and buyers anywhere in the country can make bids on e-platform and feed the price on the portal.

India Today

“Uttarakhand had remained untouched by farmers suicide until recently when a debt-ridden farmer of Daul Dungar village in Berinag block of Pithoragarh district committed suicide due to his inability to repay the loans he had taken from banks. This is a proof that the problem afflicting other parts of the country has begun to infect Uttarakhand now. On an average 35 farmers commit suicide every day in different parts of the country,” the PCC president said in the letter.

YourStory

Using just water and agricultural excess, Bio-lutions is making the world greener one biodegradable carton at a time.

The Hindu BusinessLine

The onset of the monsoon brings both hopes to the large farm community as also uncertainty. Despite sophisticated models being in place, weather predictions have more often than not gone awry.

Deccan Chronicle The Asian Age

The seeds of the agrarian crisis lie in the seed. The Green Revolution seeds were bred for chemicals. That is why Norman Ernest Borlaug had to evolve dwarf varieties that reduced biomass, triggered desertification and water famine. Monsanto’s GMO Bt cotton increased cotton seed prices by more than 70,000 per cent, trapping farmers in debt and establishing a seed monopoly. Most of the 3,10,000 farmer suicides were in the cotton belt. Monsanto controls 95 per cent of the cotton seed.

FirstPost

Every time the farmers have come out with the same demand that is remunerative prices for their produces. There is nothing wrong in a producer of a product or service demanding a just price. But the fundamental issue is why should only a farmer demand a just price for his product? Why cannot he command a price, especially, now that we have adopted market economy, in the same way as suppliers of non-agricultural produces?

Bfirst The Economic Times Avenue Mail India Business Standard Sify

With a decision to allow commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard pending, a top executive of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company (Mahyco), that has developed several GM crops, said its concern was that the government’s approach towards GM technology was “more emotion-based” than fact-based.

The Financial Express

Keep in mind (see graphic), India has too many people on the farm producing too little, and it can’t create enough jobs to shift them, so creating more value on the farm is critical. Shifting the government-support system from cereals to ensuring processing and storage of fruits/vegetables will not only bring stability to farmer incomes, it will create millions of jobs in food processing.

The Indian Express

After the white fly attack in the cotton belt of Punjab in 2015, farmers had to be compensated at the rate of Rs 8,000 per acre, which cost the state exchequer around Rs 600 crore. Most farmers had grown BT cotton at the time, which suffered extensive damage. Patches having desi cotton variety survived the pest attack.