The Times of India

National Fertilizers Limited signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Department of Fertilizers, Government of India, for the fiscal year 2017-18. Under the MoU, the company has targeted production of 38 lakh MT of Urea and sales turnover of Rs 7500 crore. The MoU was signed between Bharathi Sivaswami Sihag, secretary (Fertilizers) and Manoj Mishra, CMD, NFL. Senior officials of the department of Fertilizers and NFL directors were also present on the occasion.

India News Web The Hindu

Karnataka Agriculture Minister Krishna Byre Gowda said the scientific advance would help dry land farmers cope with recurrent droughts. Consumers would get a nutrient-rich food through research involving a non-transgenic process. “In fact the actual process of taking technology to dry-land farmers would now begin as the genome sequencing marks the beginning of focused research towards developing improved crop varieties,” he observed.

The Times of India

According to data released by the state government, sowing has been completed on 30% of the 85.76 lakh hectares normally sown. Interestingly, this time round a higher proportion of the sowing completed has been for groundnut rather than cotton. Groundnut has been sown on 7.46 lakh hectares, about 54% of the 13.88 lakh hectares normally sown with the crop.

Anupam Bharat

Angul, during the monsoon season the farmer needs the seed and fertilizer. The agriculture dept had not properly executive the plans to help the farmers. Govt shop must provide the subsides seed and fertilizer to farmers to accelerate the cultivation works. The govt must free the agriculture loan to farmers. The farmers demand the paddy MSP must increase for the current season.

The Hindu

Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has set a target of achieving 25% growth in agriculture and allied sectors this year. Addressing a teleconference with officials from agriculture and allied sectors here on Friday, Mr. Naidu said that the government’s objective was to make agriculture profitable with latest technologies.

The Hindu Business Line

HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company has been authorised by the Andhra Pradesh government to implement the Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (WBCIS) for farmers. Those cultivating groundnut, sweet lime, tomato, chillies, cotton, and oil palm crops in Anantapur, Chittoor, East Godavari, Guntur, Kadapa, Kurnool, Prakasam and West Godavari districts will be covered under the scheme.

The Hindu

“Project Unnati is a sustainable agriculture initiative, introduced initially in Andhra Pradesh in 2011. Over 22,000 farmers have been successfully trained in AP in the pilot phase of this project. We are now extending it to the farmers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. This programme is in association with FMCG major Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages,” Deshpande said.

The Hitavada

Transforming agriculture entrepreneurship into a vibrant stream, Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University (JNAU) to reshape its Business Development and Planning Unit as Agri-Entrepreneurs as per mandate of READY programme incepted by 5th Deans Committee of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR).

Odisha Bhasakar Sanchar Samaj Nitidina

To ensure a far more efficient agricultural loan infrastructure for Indian Farmers, V Soft Technologies, a global provider of information and technology solutions for financial institutions, has today announced their breakthrough ‘ROOTS’ software that runs Rupay Enabled Kisan Credit Card (KCC).Currently, Farmers who are members of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS)don’t have access to real-time money because they are not connected to the National Financial Switch (NFS) and the payments& settlements system.