The Northlines

While addressing farmers in a function, today, organized in community hall of village Patniyal in Sangrampur panchayat by “We The Human”, A K Verma resource person of the trust exhorted farmers to shift back to traditional system of agricultural farming, which is need of the hour and necessary for human survival and restoration of damages caused to nature and environment by excessive use of toxic chemical pesticides, insecticides and chemical synthetic fertilizers. Ecological balance of soil is badly disturbed due to excessive use of toxic chemical pesticides, insecticides & chemical synthetic fertilizers and other mal practices like burning of the roots and left over material on soil in agricultural/ paddy fields by the farmers, which not only ...

The Hindu Business Line

India is losing at least 1.5 per cent of its GDP annually as a direct consequence of extreme weather events, according to Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu.

Quoting experts, he said climate change will impact agricultural productivity with increasing severity from 2020 to the end of the century. The Centre is working with farmers to increase awareness by training knowledge intermediaries at the grassroots, lhe added.

 

The Hans India

Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu suggested to Agriculture Department officials to reduce usage of fertilisers in the coming agriculture year.

1. Says the usage of fertilisers should be reduced from 204 kg per hectare to 140 kg per hectare

2. Farmers should be encouraged to store agricultural produce in godowns and cold-storage units

Deccan Chronicle

Actor Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) has demanded the Centre to affirm the implementation of the Supreme Court’s February 16 verdict on Cauvery and also called for a legislation to declare the Cauvery delta area as protected agriculture zone.

Telangana Today

The State government is left with only 606 villages yet to be covered to complete the distribution of Rythu Bandhu cheques and Pattadar Passbooks(PPB) to farmers in the State. Within nine days, the Agriculture and Revenue department officials have covered 10,047 villages out of 10,653 villages in 30 districts. The gigantic exercise was started on May 10.

The Telegraph

Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday flagged off “seed vehicles” to different districts while launching the Kharif Maha-abhiyan to spread awareness and better seeds among the state’s farmers.

The Indian Express

Fields in Haryana and Punjab are on fire again, despite extensive awareness programmes, punitive action and subsidies to farmers.The governments of both states have been recording a steady rise in agricultural stubble burning over the past three weeks, with chairperson of the Punjab Pollution Control Board, K S Panna, saying that more instances are expected to be recorded this week.