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Point of sale (PoS) machines which will capture details of the farmer, the retailer and the transaction have been deployed in most of the states, the official said, asking not to be identified. States like Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi and Goa have nearly completed the exercise.

The Financial Express

Since the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM) project was launched in April last year, hardly 4% of the wholesale trade in farm commodities has shifted to it; as far as inter-mandi/inter-state eNAM trade is concerned, it has remained a non-starter, meaning the objective of empowering farmers with a wider buyer base hasn’t been met.

The Hans India

According to him, several farmers like him have invested Rs 50,000 to Rs one lakh on chilli cultivation. But they all landed in heavy losses following the failure of the crop showing the plants with stunted growth. ‘We have taken the issue to the notice of the officials several times during the past two months but there is no response,’ chilli farmers Mara Ramana and Velthoju Ramesh told The Hans India.

The Hindu

The Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council Keralam’s (VFPCK) efforts to promote organic farming under the Participatory Guarantee System India (PGS), a decentralised organic farming certification system of the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, has gathered momentum in the district with ten farmers’ local groups registered in just over a year. Each group has only five to seven members since the focus is not on forming larger groups. Farmers engaged in organic farming are considered for membership.

The Hindu Business Line

This is because the cost of production of various crops differs from State to State and from farmer to farmer. But CACP averages the costs of all the States to fix the MSP for a crop. So, farmers in States with a higher cost of production are unable to get a healthy spread over the guaranteed price.

The Indian Express

The Centre should provide a financial package of Rs 40,000 crore to the state government to cope with the loan waiver and meet other agriculture commitments, Maharashtra Farm Commission chairman Kishore Tiwari said on Saturday.

Hindustan Times

Terming the new tax regime as anti-farmer, he said farmers of the country are already reeling under the lack of appropriate MSP and a cycle of indebtedness and GST seeks to further tax the farmer and agriculture sector as taxes will be imposed on fertilisers and pesticides.

Samaj

India and Israel agreed to boost trade from the current $5 billion a year to $20 billion annually in the next five years, an official said .The India-Israel CEO Forum also set up six committees covering start-ups, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, homeland security, agriculture, energy and water sectors.

Business Standard

He requested Agriculture Minister Wangki Lowang to conduct another round of meeting with the officers of RSI and NABARD and get the required data from RSI by letting them conduct land mapping for the state.