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PAU to launch mass awareness drive to prevent suicides in Punjabedit
The Punjab Agricultural University will be launching a mass awareness drive in connection with World Suicide Prevention Day which is celebrated on September 10 every year in response to a call by World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP).The Vice Chancellor of PAU stated that suicide should not be portrayed as a method of coping with personal problems.
India’s agri exports decline by 25%edit
Data compiled by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics under the ministry of commerce and industry showed India’s exports of agri and allied products declined by 25 per cent to $24.7 billion for financial year 2016-17, as against nearly $33 billion in 2013-14. In contrast, import of agri and allied products jumped in the same period to $23.2 billion, from $13.5 billion.
Govt targets to raise average farm household income by FY23edit
The average income of a farmer household estimated at ~96,703 in 2015-16 (at current prices) is targeted to rise, by government effort, to ~2,19,724 (at current prices) by 2022-23. The figure has been estimated in an initial report of the official committee on doubling farmers’ income.
Farmers stage ‘chakka jam’, seek ‘blanket’ loan waiveredit
The Financial Express Hindustan Times Pudhari Navakaal Aapla Mahanagar Punya Nagari
Farmers In Maharashtra went on agitation on Monday, blocking major highways across the state in response to a call for a ‘chakka jam’ given by the steering committee comprising of majority of the state farmer units.
Agriculture is challenging for Indiaedit
The progress in agriculture needs to be evaluated in terms of outcomes such as catching up with global yields of various crops as a means to increase incomes of farmers. Credit is an important mediating input for agriculture to improve productivity. The predominance of informal sources of credit for farmers is a concern. There is regional disparity in the distribution of agricultural credit which also needs to be addressed.
Rs 6.4 lakh cr more needed to double farmers’ incomeedit
For a targeted 10.41 per cent annual increase in farmers’ income, the required rate of increase in investment on private account is estimated at 7.86 per cent per annum, it said. The estimated increase in weighted public investment (together in agriculture, irrigation, rural roads and transport and rural energy) is pegged at 14.17 per cent per year.