The Wire

How successful, effective and equitable is insurance as a state policy? Does it address what it is meant to address in the first place, be it in health or agriculture? How does it handle systemic risk, which is essentially uninsurable? Does it also present a lost opportunity for improving the delivery of the existing system, which in turn would have mitigated or reduced the risk?

ANI

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan Singh has met Carola Schouten, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Netherlands in Krishi Bhawan and expressed his desire to further strengthen the existing partnership between the two countries in agriculture and allied sectors.

Millennium Post

If the income of the farmers has to be doubled, the agricultural growth in the country has to be export-driven. There is considerable merit in exporting all the leftover that is not consumed in India, allowing the farmers to earn a higher income for the same. Some farmers have started growing and exporting flowers and allied products, for which they have found a good number of buyers in the USA, Japan and Germany. Similarly, our fruits are being bought by Netherlands and Japan, mangoes and grapes by Belgium, Saudi Arabia and some others. The farmers of these agriculture products have not only been able to secure a better income for themselves but have also helped the government ...

The Hindu

Minister for Agriculture Pocharam Srinivas Reddy has stated that the government is ready with required quantity of seed and fertilisers for the coming kharif season and the investment support given under Rythu Bandhu scheme should be helpful to the farming community to procure inputs without any problem.

The New Indian Express

The Ministry of Chemical and Fertilisers has directed all state governments and fertiliser companies to register all licensed/authorised Mixtures/Customised fertilizer manufacturers for the sale of subsidised fertilisers to mixture/ customised fertiliser manufacturing units under the Direct Benefit transfer (DBT) programme. The directions have also put in place elaborate guidelines to avoid misuse of subsidies.

Deccan Chronicle

Agriculture Minister V.S. Sunil Kumar has cautioned against the attempts being made by some NGOs with foreign links and private individuals to protect the indigenous seed varieties.     “The state agriculture department views such attempts with suspicion,” said  Mr  Sunil Kumar here on Thursday.  He made the statement while announcing the new 23 seed varieties to be released at the Kerala Agricultural University  by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on the occasion of the second anniversary of the LDF government on May 26.

The Times of India

As the Netherlands joined the International Solar Alliance (ISA) here on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutteby enhancing bilateral relations in the fields of energy, agriculture, water and technology during the latter’s second visit to India.

The Times of India

The huge stock of 8.5 lakh tonnes of groundnut procured at the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 900 per 20kg has become an burden for the state government as it is finding it difficult to sell it to oil millers or in the open market.In order to resolve issues that have been pending for long, the state government and officials of the nodal agency for groundnut procurement, National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (Nafed), have organized a meeting with members of the Saurashtra Oil Millers Association (SOMA) in Gondal on Friday. The main agenda, said sources, was to convince the oil millers to purchase the huge stock for crushing.

India Today

The Netherlands government, institutions and businesses can help India deal with air pollution caused by stubble burning around the national capital, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said today.”It (stubble burning) is happening at two places bordering Delhi. It is creating lot of pollution in winters. I have mentioned in the CEOs forum that we are partnering with Dutch institutions and companies and players here…to see how we can do this,” he said here.

The Telegraph

The Agricultural Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Limited (Apicol), a state government undertaking, will soon launch a website to ease out the process of doing agribusiness in the state.The website, apicol.nic.in, will go live from the first week of June. It will promote enterprises in agriculture within the state with suitable guidance for project formulation, counselling, enterprise development and assistance in project implementation. Apicol is fast emerging as a promotional organisation for providing assistance to agricultural enterprises in the state.