The Economic Times The Hindu Business Line

Namboothiris has entered into an agreement with Chennai-based Pay Agri Innovation, an agro fin tech company, for the procurement of pesticide-free products from more than 60000 farmers in Tami Nadu, directly by eliminating middlemen.

Dainik Jagran

The options for farmers to sell produce are very limited, the government has made efforts to increase the efforts. For this, the process of mandi improvement has been increased. Most states have agreed to implement the Model Mandi law of the center. In a function organized in FICCI, Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said that the government is the high priority of the farmers to get the fair value of their produce.

India Infoline The Economic Times

Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Radha Mohan Singh said that as per the third advance estimates food grain production in the country has increased to 273 MT in 2016-17, oil seeds to 32.5 MT, and sugarcane to 306 MT.

News Click

The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), the crop insurance scheme designed to compensate farmers in case of crop failure, was rolled out in 2016 with much fanfare and publicity. More than a year after it was implemented, we take a look at the numbers to see how well it has done. As an earlier report by Newsclick highlighted, the ratio of the amount of premium collected to the amount of claims settled is shocking. Most of the premium collected has gone on to profit the selected insurance companies.

Money Control

When two of the country’s largest, oldest and most reputed industrial conglomerates decide to exit from a sector, it is time check if the best days for the sector are over. The Tatas and Birlas are exiting from the fertiliser sector and that too in a short span of time. Tata Chemicals sold its urea business to Norway’s fertiliser and chemicals major Yara for Rs 2,670 crore, in what it termed as a move toward value-unlocking.

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Rajasthan, India’s top mustard producing state on Friday, expressed its reservations over commercial introduction of Genetically Modified (GM) variety of mustard, saying output from the traditional varieties was adequate. Rajasthan’s Agriculture Minister Prabhu Lal Saini said it did not want to be dependent on any company for seeds. “Production of mustard is quite good in our state. We are getting 32-33 ...