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Agriculture Industry
District’s coastal belt lost 15% green coveredit
The coastal areas of Ernakulam district witnessed a 15% reduction in vegetation and agricultural land in the past 25 years from 1991 to 2016. According to a study by researchers by the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, (NCESS) Thiruvananthapuram, there is also a 15.6% increase in built-up area due to urbanisation.
Bihar mulls policy for bambooedit
Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi on Saturday underlined the need to create a task force to formulate a separate bamboo policy for the state.Addressing a ‘bamboo conclave’ in Patna, Modi said the central government’s National Bamboo Mission under the agriculture ministry would function under the state environment and forests department.
Haryana to organise awareness campaign for farmersedit
Awareness programmes will be conducted at the village, block and district levels for farmers in Haryana from June 20 to July 15, a top official said today.These programmes will generate awareness about the negative effects of stubble burning, its alternatives and various farmer welfare schemes and will be supervised by senior officials, Principal Secretary of Haryana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Department, Abhilaksh Likhi, said.
Renuka raises money for farmers in distressedit
Congress senior leader and former Union Minister Renuka Chowdhury on Sunday disbursed financial aid to the bereaved families of four farmers of the district, who had committed suicide due to agrarian distress in the past few months.
CENTRE WORKING STEADILY FOR DOUBLING FARMERS’ INCOMEedit
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Saturday said the Union Government is working consistently towards doubling the income of farmers and animal rearers.Singh was here to lay foundation stone of the country’s first sex-sorted semen laboratory in Rishikesh under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission Yojana.
Gujarat: Under-debt, farmer commits suicide over ‘crop failure’edit
A 52-year-old farmer at Arsodia village in Sabarkantha district has committed suicide by consuming pesticide allegedly over crop failure. His family said that Bharat Govind Parmar had taken a farm loan of Rs 3.5 lakh from Union Bank of India and was finding it difficult to repay it due to “repeated failure of crops for the last three years”.
Living without minimum supportedit
The Indian farmers have for long been on the brink. Their story is the same in over one-third of the States barring Telangana, which has emerged as a role model with a remarkable turnaround of its farm sector.