July 11, 2017

Agriculture Industry

Karnataka woos traders from other States to its online agri platformedit

The Hindu Business Line

In addition, bulk buyers such as ADM, Cargill, ITC, Reliance, Metro Cash & Carry, Godrej Agro, Pepsico India, Max Hypermarket and Trinetra Super Retail have been participating in these markets. “We want more traders from the other States to purchase the commodities traded at APMCs here,” Rajan said. States such as Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Delhi and Chennai are the major destinations for the ball copra or edible copra produced in Karnataka.

Maharashtra’s farm distress, on loopedit

The Financial Express

History Repeats Itself, and does so when it is least expected. In 1979, Maharashtra saw its first farmer movement, led by Sharad Ioshi in an area near Pune for a single crop, onion, that then expanded to cotton, sugar and tobacco. The recent strike, that subsided after the announcement of the state’s loan waiver, emanated precisely from the same belt of comparatively prosperous western Maharashtra with richer, accessing better irrigation, more market-clued and progressive farmers.

Dry spell takes toll on 20% cultivated land across Maharashtra; farmers forced to resowedit

Hindustan Times

Besides resowing, the dry spell has delayed sowing of crops that are cultivated after the monsoon sets in. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had appealed to the farmers to delay the sowing until the agriculture department issues its next advisory. “The break in the monsoon has made conditions unfavourable for sowing,” he said. The government has announced it will provide seeds to farmers in areas affected under the dry spell. It has asked agriculture officials to visit areas where resowing is being undertaken and conduct panchnamas so that farmers are provided seeds and compensation.

Farmers urged to insure crops under Fasal Bima Yojanaedit

Deccan Herald

In case of crop loss due to natural disasters, such as drought, farmers should enrol for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) instead of depending on the input subsidy, said Deputy Commissioner D Randeep. Addressing a media conference, after holding a meeting with Agriculture and Horticulture department officials, at his office, here, on Monday, he said, the input subsidy is meagre when compared to the expenses incurred by the farmers to cultivate the crops, so the only solution to recover the costs, in case of crop loss, is to get insurance claims.

Get it right on fertilisersedit

The Financial Express

With The Prime minister’s office (PMO) quite firm that sales of subsidised fertiliser have to be linked to Aadhaar numbers of farmers, chances are the fertiliser ministry will have to stick to the target even though it wants the January 1, 2018, deadline extended. Under the scheme, fertiliser companies will have to authenticate the Aadhaar ID of farmers as part of the Aadhaar-enabled Fertiliser Distribution System (AeFDS) and, once this is done, they will get paid the subsidy based on the amounts sold.

Mysuru farmers encouraged to opt for crop insuranceedit

The Hindu

Contingency plan, with a list of alternative crops for sowing, kept ready in case rains fail this month Even as the monsoon has been playing truant across the district with deficient rain recorded in June, the district administration and the Agriculture Department are hoping to bring more farmers under crop insurance coverage to protect them against crop loss on account of natural calamities.

NITI Aayog Calls for Competitive Cooperative Federalism in Statesedit

The Economic Times

Reiterating the goal of his government to double farm income, PM Modi shad stressed on eliminating wastage in farm produce and emphasised that states focus on food processing. “The Prime Minister called for states to focus on agriculture reforms and eNAM in particular,” the NITI statement said. Earlier in the day Panagariya made a strong case for shifting workers from agriculture to industry. “If we set the output per worker in agriculture equal to 1, then output per worker in industry is 5 and that in services 3.8.

Reforms still ignore farmers’ plight in countryedit

Free Press Journal

There is however one area where economic reforms have failed to deliver, perhaps more by intent and not by oversight. That is the area of agriculture. The spirit of deregulation, delicensing, less government control, more free markets, has been absent, or pursued with very little enthusiasm when it comes to farm issues. Agriculture remains a protected and subsidised sector among most members of the World Trade Organisation.

Dry spell takes toll on 20% cultivated land across Maharashtra; farmers forced to resoedit

Hindustan Times

Besides resowing, the dry spell has delayed sowing of crops that are cultivated after the monsoon sets in. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had appealed to the farmers to delay the sowing until the agriculture department issues its next advisory. “The break in the monsoon has made conditions unfavourable for sowing,” he said. The government has announced it will provide seeds to farmers in areas affected under the dry spell. It has asked agriculture officials to visit areas where resowing is being undertaken and conduct panchnamas so that farmers are provided seeds and compensation.

Despite the Myth, Sustainable Farming Methods Can Lead to High-Yield Agricultureedit

The Wire

The recent unrest of farmers has prompted a lot of rethinking about alternative farming policies and strategies. However the search for genuine alternatives is still hindered and distorted by the longest prevailing myth in the context of agriculture – that ecologically-destructive methods may be detestable but still are necessary to increase farm production. It is by deliberately foisting this myth that agriculture was made heavily dependent on chemical fertilisers and pesticides in the first place.

CPI demands complete loan waiver for farmersedit

The Times of India

The Communist Party of India (CPI) has demanded a complete loan waiver for farmers in all states. The party has decided to launch a court arrest campaign in this regard from July 24 to 26. It has demanded complete loan waiver, implementation of the Swaminathan committee recommendations, starting of social security schemes like pension for aged farmers, farm labourers and implementation of the land ceiling Act.

Niti Aayog for moving workforce from agriculture to industryedit

Dainik Yashobhumi

Niti Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya today made a strong case for shifting workers from agriculture to industry and encourage small enterprises to grow big with a view to accelerate economic growth.

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