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Green Corridor project will not affect farmers, says Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswamiedit
Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday reiterated that the Chennai-Salem Green Corridor project would be implemented without affecting farmers and that acquisition of lands would be made prudently – i.e., land acquisition would be done only where it is absolutely necessary and sufficient compensation would be paid to farmers and others.
How Andhra Pradesh is taking to ‘natural farming’edit
About three years ago, Pawan Kumar, working as an IT professional at Hyderabad, decided to quit his job and return to his village to become a farmer. His father, a small farmer in West Godavari district, tried to discourage him but Kumar who had read about a new method of “natural farming” would not listen.
How water conservation is helping farmers turn a profitedit
As the Centre figures out ways to achieve its target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022, farmers in some villages have already multiplied their income by conserving every drop of water and making agriculture a profit-making venture, says Radheshyam Jadhav in the fourth of the series for TOI’s Water Positive campaign
Law on contract farming in the worksedit
A new legislation — the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Contract Farming (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2018 — would be enacted during 2018-19, and brought into force for the benefit of farmers and contract farming sponsors, Agriculture Minister R. Doraikkannu informed the Assembly on Tuesday.
22,000 quintals of seeds, 1.20-lakh tons of fertilisers readied for kharif in Vikarabadedit
The district administration has targeted to raise crops in over 1.73-lakh hectares during the current kharif and kept readied 22000 quintals of seeds and 1.20 lakh tonnes of fertilisers.
Agriculture department acts tough, ploughs paddy fieldsedit
The state agriculture department, in a crackdown against farmers defying the government directive on paddy transplantation, on Tuesday ploughed paddy transplanted in four acres and booked five farmers in Ferozepur for violating prohibitory orders.
Agriculture department acts tough, ploughs paddy fieldsedit
The state agriculture department, in a crackdown against farmers defying the government directive on paddy transplantation, on Tuesday ploughed paddy transplanted in four acres and booked five farmers in Ferozepur for violating prohibitory orders.
Cabinet approves continuation of agriculture education development planedit
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved continuation of the Three Year Action Plan (2017-2020) of the scheme for Agricultural Education Division and ICAR Institutes to strengthen and develop higher agricultural education in the country.
Technology in Agriculture
4454 power tillers to be distributed to farmers: CMedit
It is the target of Agriculture Department of Tripura that this year a total of 4454 power tillers have to be distributed to actual farmers but the previous government of the state had distributed 1034 numbers of power tiller to farmers,Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said on Tuesday here. Economy of Tripura is basically agrarian and characterized by high rate of poverty, low per-capita income, low capital formation, inadequate infrastructural facilities, geographical isolation, communication bottleneck, inadequate exploitation, inadequate use of forest and mineral resources, low progress in industrial field and high un-employment problem. More than 42 percent of its population now directly depends on agriculture and allied activities, he said