Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Now, farmers need just a thumb print to buy farm inputsedit
There are 96 cooperative societies with more than three lakh farmers as members in the district. These societies provide seeds, fertilizer, pesticide and agriculture equipment at subsidized rates to farmers.
Initiative to promote collective farmingedit
The Agriculture Department hosted a day-long seminar for its officials to brief them on the concept. Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Agriculture R. Doraikannu observed that the State can make big strides in increasing productivity through the collective farming initiative. Explaining the rationale behind the concept, K. Shanmugam, Additional Chief Secretary (Finance), observed that collective farming could help farmers overcome the two main risks posed by natural vagaries and price fluctuations.
Farmers’ bodies urge govt to relax norms for special paddy packageedit
Meanwile, Puliyur A Nagarajan, state organizer of the farmers’ wing of Tamil Manila Congress said that the package is being disbursed to the farmers who have transplanted nurseries using machine. Others were not eligible to get the money, he said. “We have been demanding the government to relax the rule asking to extend the benefit to those transplanting nursery using agriculture labourers. This is because when they utilise man power, both farmers and labourers are benefitted,” he added.
Farmers to get compensation for agri land acquired for power transmission linesedit
Farmers whose agricultural land is acquired for erecting high-tension power transmission towers will now get compensation. Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has recently issued a direction in this effect.
Continuing drought compels farmers to migrateedit
Following prevalence of adverse conditions in the present Kharif season as most of the mandals in Kadapa district have received very poor rain fall, it has become inevitable for farmers to migrate elsewhere. The farmers are now turning house construction workers in the cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bombay etc and some are going to delta areas as agriculture labour along with their families for livelihood. This particular scenario is being witnessed in mandals like Rayachoti, Kasinayana, Kalasapadu , Porumamilla, B.Koduru mandals.