The Hindu

In a few years from now livestock is likely to cease to be a major component of agricultural economy even in the backward Adilabad and Kumram Bheem Asifabad districts. The changing trend has even poor tribal farmers going in for mechanisation and the Rythu Bandhu Scheme (RBS) of investment support to farmers in the State has only given a boost to use of machinery.

Millennium Post

With prediction of “below normal” rainfall in East and North-East India by the Met department, the state Agriculture department is ready to tackle any situation, with all sorts of preparation in place to ensure that farmers do not face any loss.

Financial Express

At the end of the day, it was probably the acute distress in Uttar Pradesh’s sugar belt that really cost the BJP the Kairana by-poll that captured the public imagination—since all major Opposition parties came together to defeat the BJP, it was seen as a harbinger of what is in store in 2019. To be sure, the Muslim community is numerically powerful in this constituency, with just over a third of the vote, but the fact is that the BJP won here the last time around, even if you assume Muslims will never vote for the BJP. However, the economic woes of the region—cane arrears, agriculture distress, and disastrous livestock regulation—undoubtedly made things tougher for the BJP, apart from ...

Hindustan Times

Mission for millennium city Expressways and underpasses, CNG buses, more Metro routes, and a new metropolitan authority — Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar shares his government’s plans for one of India’s fastest-growning urban sprawls that has its share of problems but the promise of an even brighter tomorrow.

Mydigitalfc.com

Sonalika International Tractors, India’s third largest tractor maker by sales, is investing Rs 200 crore to set up a new research and development (R&D) facility in the national capital region (NCR) to double its annual sales to two lakh tractors over the next five years.

The New Indian Express

Acute shortage of quality seeds and lack of drive by the Agriculture Department to increase the seed replacement rate are likely to hit the paddy production target set for the Kharif 2018. Anticipating normal monsoon, the State Government has set a target to produce 85.75 lakh tonnes of rice with the productivity of 2450 kg per hectare, spreading over of 35 lakh hectares of land.

India Spend

The annual economic loss due to degraded land and change in land use in India was valued at Rs 3.17 lakh crore ($46.90 billion) in 2014-15–2.5% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014-15–according to a recent study commissioned by the ministry of environment and climate change.

The Hans India

Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will announce a permanent roadmap for farmers’ welfare and strengthen the agriculture sector further at a major conference involving more than 3,000 officials of the Agriculture department to be organized on June 4 in Hyderabad.

O Heraldo

The BJP government boasts about the various schemes they have successfully implemented in the country which include the Start-Ups and Make in India. A farmer, who invented two machines on his own, is still wondering whether government agricultural officers in Valpoi have not heard of these schemes.

Mint

Agriculture forms the problematic nucleus of the macroeconomic knot which ties us up. It called out for attention even before the pressing necessity of having to cope with a 10-day farmers’ agitation starting 1 June. What led us to this terrible state of affairs?

The Times of India

Getting farmersto use increased Minimum Support Price (MSP) to dispose of paddy and wheat straw is the most effective way of stopping them from burning paddy stubble, said Punjab Pollution Control Board chairman Kahan Singh Pannu.

Swarajya

Sins of omission and commission have plagued Indian agriculture for as long as one can remember. This is a perversity, for — at least in terms of popular beliefs — India lives in its villages, and villages are essentially about farming even today. This over-dependence on agriculture for livelihoods should have spurred the creation of competent policies that serve both farmers and the country well. But over the last 70 years, we have got almost everything wrong in terms of agricultural and land policies. Even where we got things right, we have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.