Green Ecosystem

Each unique product provides the farmer with useful insights into the efficiency and productivity of their farming practices, improving consequential impacts to crop growth and yields.In an increasingly mechanised and automated sector,companies are making huge developments in the power and accuracy of digital technologies. Farmers are able to gain a wealth of data and insight into the complex processes affecting their farm’s productivity. farm management practices.

Business World

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has recently published its report on world food production trends for the fiscal year 2017-18. It is important in nature as the report had specific projections for Indian agrarian produces for the coming year. The USDA had published its projections soon after organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) report had been published for the coming decade. For Indian perspective there is a bunch of study for rice and cotton including projection for kharif season.

New Kerala

Suggesting certain measures aimed at ensuring growth and development of agriculture sector, Gadkari highlighted the need to bring down costs per acre and also to promote allied sectors like dairy, fisheries, poultry and others. “In the current scenario, we need to boost productivity to promote economic viability which would lead to job generation and boost the gross domestic product (GDP), besides promoting agro-processing industries and bringing down costs of power, seeds, fertilisers and insecticides is equally imperative,” he said.

The Indian Express

The Centre has asked states to chalk out relevant plans to achieve the goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022, Parliament was informed today. The average monthly income per agricultural household from various sources is estimated to be Rs 6,426, according to the survey done by the National Sample Survey Office in 2013. Replying to queries raised on farmers’ income, Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala said a roadmap has been outlined by the Niti Aayog for farm sector reforms and doubling farmers’ income by 2022.

Business Standard India Today The Indian Express The Hindu Business Line

Thousands of farmers from all over the country demonstrated at Jantar Mantar today, participating in a a Kisan Mukti Sansad to voice their demands. The farmers have made two specific demands: farming should be made remunerative and that their debts should be forgiven. Farmers from Tamil Nadu, who have relaunched their agitation, were also part of the Kisan Mukti Sansad, which saw children of farmers from Maharashtra who committed suicide perform a skit to bring attention to their plight.

Business Standard

Farmers in Punjab are bigger beneficiaries of the enlarged rural credit flow through the Centre-subsidised institutional mechanism than their counterparts in other states that have announced debt waivers. On average, an account-holder among Punjab farmers availed of crop loans of around Rs 2.23 lakh in the first 11 months of 2016-17. Repaying the short-term loan, which is taken usually for a year for most crops except sugarcane, becomes a problem if the price the crop gets is abnormally low, and this leads to mounting debts.

The Hans India

However, we have already started taking steps to set up private and direct markets,” according to Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Pandurang Fundkar. Maharashtra has issued 43 licences for private marketing and licences for direct marketing have been issued to 566 companies, including Saguna, ITC. However, the JD-U-led Bihar government is not ready to adopt the new model act, apparently for political reasons. The Bihar government has said its marketing system was more liberal than the one the Centre has come up with.

The Telegraph

This is not the first time he has got an award. Earlier, Sanjeev got a national silver medal from the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research in 2009, the progressive farmer award in 2010 from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), the Udyan Ratna Award by the Uttarakhand government in 2011, the Best Farmer award by the Gujarat government in 2013 and the innovator farmer award by Rajendra Agricultural University (RAU) Pusa, Samastipur in 2014.

Business Standard

The profitability of fertiliser companies is likely to jump by a staggering 44 per cent in the April-June quarter due to a sharp increase in sales volume driven by expectations of normal monsoon for the second year in a row. An ICICI Securities study attributes the estimated growth in net profit of non-fertiliser businesses to a lower base in the fertiliser segment of some companies.

The Hindu

The plant had gone through adequate tests and was declared “safe” and passed regulatory muster. The Academy, according to Mr. Singh’s letter, was also cognisant of the “massive negative propaganda” on GM crops by “activists” that was causing “serious damage” to Indian agriculture.

Nyoooz

A new variety of paddy is being introduced in Visakha Agency to double the yields. According to experts from Chintapalli Agriculture Research Station, the new hybrid developed by a private firm is a hardy one and is also pest-resistant, requires less water and can be directly seed-planted. Speaking on the extent of land needed to cultivate the variety, joint director of agriculture, Visakhapatnam, V Satyanarayana said, “This variety has been planted on 5,000 hectares in Visakha Agency and on a smaller extent in Vizianagaram Agency .” It saves me at least 20 days in comparison with traditional varieties.