The Hindu

The farmers in the tail end areas of various irrigation projects need to allow the paddy plants to grow longer than suitable height as sowing operation normally gets delayed owing to delay in irrigation water reaching their fields.

The Hindu Business Line

The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited and NCDEX e-Markets Limited have signed an agreement to create an e-platform for procurement of oilseeds and pulses directly from farmers, a release said. The e-procurement platform will enable farmers to sell the commodity to NAFED and NCDEX e-Markets online. This will also provide end-to-end solutions for the commodities for its storage in warehouse and its disposal.

Deccan Herald

It was always known, but when a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) report in 2003 explained in detail how devastating cheaper imports of agricultural commodities and products have been to domestic production, and presented a chart detailing out how a surge in imports acted as a strong blow to the local economy, I thought the world would sit back and take notice. On the contrary, international trade negotiations have now taken a more aggressive stance.

The Hindu Business Line

SEBI recently gave the nod for NCDEX and CDSL to launch commodity repository service. In an interview with BusinessLine, Samir Shah, MD & CEO of NCDEX, talks of the changes that will take place with the move. With a commodity repository, the warehouse receipt will be more trusted and bring down borrowing costs for farmers, he adds.

Sify

Every one-degree-celsius rise in temperature beyond 20°C (degrees Celsius) during the growing season on India’s farms causes 67 suicides, with 59,300 suicides since 1980 attributable to climate change, according to a new study by Tamma Carleton, a doctoral student in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California-Berkeley, USA.