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Agriculture Industry
Deep ditch in farm causes anxiety among villagersedit
People of Dariyapur villages in Shahapur taluk became anxious after seeing a deep ditch in an agriculture field belonging to a farmer Somanna on Wednesday.
GST makes agricultural costly, neutralises sop benefitedit
The rollout of GST appears to have made the cost of agricultural operations higher, thanks to a 12 per cent rise in fertiliser prices. According to latest prices, the price of urea bag has been increased by Rs 36 compared to the pre-GST regime and a bag of complex fertiliser is priced Rs 80 more.
Telangana government to up foodgrain productionedit
Banking on the forecast of a normal monsoon and completion of Kaleshwaram and other projects this year, coupled with the Rythu Bandhu scheme and 24×7 free power supply to agriculture, the government is confident of bringing more area under cultivation and achieving record production. The government is devising an Agriculture Action Plan in consultation with agriculture and irrigation experts.
The Philippines to help Bihar better its riceedit
Matthew Morell, the director general of International Rice Research Institute, Manila, The Philippines, on Wednesday had a meeting with state agriculture minister Prem Kumar and other senior department officials.The participants discussed the avenues through which the premier research institute could help Bihar to enhance rice productivity and help the state in providing seeds of paddy of such a quality which could withstand vagaries of weather.
Agriculture income support: Telangana walks the talk on new per-acre subsidy schemeedit
The K Chandrashekar Rao-led government in Telangana has issued cheques totaling around Rs 5,600 crore to 57.33 lakh land-owning farmers in the state ahead of the current kharif crop season under its flagship Rythu Bandhu agricultural subsidy scheme.
Experts brief minister on ‘all-weather’ paddyedit
Agriculture scientists associated with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Manila on Thursday claimed they had developed varieties of paddy with which farmers could expect good yield in the flood as well as drought-prone districts of Bihar.
Government giving top priority to agriculture, says KTRedit
IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Wednesday said that the State government was giving top priority to protect the interests of farmers and development of the agriculture sector.“No government in the past had bothered about the plight of farmers and the farm sector but Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is taking all possible measures to rescue the ryots from distress,” the Minister said, after laying the foundation stone for agriculture college at Sardapur of Sircilla mandal. Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy also participated in the programme.
More power to the farmeredit
Negative net margins have precluded attempts at enabling effective price realisation for India’s farmers, season after season. That this is despite burgeoning production levels, with a record production of nearly 275 million tonnes in the last fiscal, indicates that the fault might lie elsewhere than merely in our production capacities.
Probe ordered into Rs 88 crore in seeds distributed during SP ruleedit
The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to conduct an investigation into the distribution of Rs 88 crore worth of seeds during the previous Samajwadi Party government’s tenure. All district magistrates have been directed to verify seed distribution before clearing the dues of the supplier companies.
69 farmers commit suicide in last two months: Agriculture ministeredit
Newly appointed agriculture minister N H Shivashankar Reddy on Thursday said as many as 69 farmers committed suicide in the beginning of the 2018-19 financial year.Newly appointed agriculture minister N H Shivashankar Reddy on Thursday said as many as 69 farmers committed suicide in the beginning of the 2018-19 financial year.
Punjab experiences ‘most severe’ air quality in last ten yearsedit
The cyclonic circulation over northwest Madhya Pradesh coupled with a trough extending from northwest Rajasthan to Bihar has thrown the dust from the Thar desert up into the atmosphere forcing Punjab to experience ‘severest’ air quality in the last ten years.
Punjab CM announces Rs 209 crore debt relief for 38,000 farmersedit
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today announced the disbursement of Rs 209 crore to 38,000 marginal farmers, who are members of cooperative societies, within the next ten days to complete the first phase of his government’s debt relief scheme.
India sells new season cotton crop to China in rare advance dealsedit
India’s cotton exporters have signed contracts to ship 500,000 bales (85,000 tonnes) of their new season harvest to China as the world’s biggest consumer of the fibre looks to raise its imports in the next crop year, industry officials told Reuters.
Data Shows Rural India is Growing, So Why Are the Farmers Angry?edit
The ten-day farmer strike, called by Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh, ended on 10 June 2018. The strike was largely limited to northern and western India, and from the looks of it, was not very successful. But I guess that is not the point here. This strike and other protests by farmers that have happened in the recent past tell us very clearly that the Indian farmer is angry.
‘System in Delhi’ is anti-farmers, anti-villages: Gadkariedit
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said the mindset of the governmental “system in Delhi” is “anti-farmers and anti-villages”, comments which come in the backdrop of Congress’ relentless attack on the government on the issue of addressing “farm distress”.