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Agriculture Industry
Himachal giving impetus to farming: Thakuredit
Despite limited financial resources, Himachal Pradesh has proposed several new schemes to give impetus to farming, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Monday.Addressing the inaugural function of two-day national workshop on ‘Challenges and Opportunities in Crop Diversification’ organized by the state Agriculture Department here, he said large number of new schemes have been earmarked for prosperity of the farmers.
3515 farm suicides in 55 months. Can Siddaramaiah’s Rs 8000-crore loan waiver woo farmers?edit
In January this year, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath got in a war of words over a range of issues, one among them was farmer suicides.
Experts join hands with farmers to revive traditional paddy varietiesedit
At a time when the farmers in Thanjavur and the Delta region have upped the ante in protesting against the Centre for betraying Tamil Nadu’s rights in Cauvery, farmers Kanchipuram, with Prabhu and ‘Nel’ Jayaraman—an expert who is a living seed bank for the farmers—have come together to revive the traditional paddy varieties.
Farm activist urges Centre to ban toxic pesticidesedit
The special task force constituted to tackle the agrarian crisis in Maharashtra has urged the Centre to accept the state government’s proposal to ban some toxic insecticides.
Karnataka polls 2018: Farmers are in distress but a loan waiver may not helpedit
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) manifesto for the Karnataka assembly elections 2018 released on May 4, 2018, declared that farm loans upto Rs 100,000 in nationalised banks and cooperative societies would be waived. A few days earlier, the BJP’s chief ministerial candidate and party state president B.S. Yeddyurappa promised a waiver of agriculture loans in both nationalised banks and cooperative societies if his party came to power, hoping, as a consequence, he said, for a 3-4% rise in vote share for his party
Naidu seeks PM’s intervention on MSP, free power, crop insuranceedit
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Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has sought the Prime Minister’s intervention to ‘quickly address’ MSP, free powerand crop insurance that have a ‘deep and immediate bearing’ on welfare of the farm sector, which if left unaddressed, would badly hit farmers.
Stubble burning fire disrupts railway traffic in Punjabedit
Railway traffic between Ludhiana and Jalandhar was hit today and three trains had to be stopped after fire from stubble burning reached near a track close to the Mauli railway station, around five km from here, an official said.
Budget
Rural income: looking beyond agricultureedit
The government announced its ambitious dream of doubling farmers’ income by 2022-23 in 2015-16. Incomes would have to grow annually by 10.4% to double in seven years.
Agriculture implements worth Rs 6 crore distributed to farmers in Thanjavuredit
State agriculture minister R Duraikannu distributed farm implements worth Rs 6 crore to 73 farmers’ producer groups with the subsidy of Rs 4.15 crore at a function held in Thanjavur. He also gave away welfare measures to the beneficiaries at the event.
Technology in Agriculture
Aujla gets two barges for villages near Ravi riveredit
In the absence of any bridge to cross the river alongside international border, the farmers have to use barges to transport their machinery and agricultural produce through the river. Aujla said farmers from at least 25 villages would be benefitted. Can carry 250 people at a time, tractor-trailer, combine harvesterTribune News ServiceAmritsar, May 7Lok Sabha MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla provided two barges to farmers of Kot Raizada, Bal Labhe Darya and Sahowal villages, who own land across the Ravi river, in Ajnala sector, on Monday.