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Compensate farmers for late sowing: SADedit
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Saturday said the decision of the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government to delay paddy transplantation in the State has shortened the sowing season of the crop, resulting in a steep increase in labour charges. Former Punjab Minister Bikram Singh Majithia of the SAD said it was imperative that the State government announce a compensation package for farmers owing to the loss.
We have been making many agronomic interventionsedit
In order to ensure that safe and quality produce is available to consumers, we have always engaged with the entire value chain linking different players and stakeholders from farm to fork, with stringent quality and monitoring parameters. We have been making various agronomic interventions, such as crop planning, guidance on good agricultural practices, post-harvest practices and handling, and packaging of harvested produce.
MP HONOURED AS BEST STATE FOR AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIONedit
Madhya Pradesh was honoured with the Best State Award in New Delhi on Saturday for best performance in integrated agriculture production. The award was given by the Union Minister of Agriculture, Radha Mohan Singh at the India Today magazine’s Agro Summit and Award-2018 function.
Facing labour crunch, Bijnor farmers come up with unique idea of community farmingedit
The lure of good perks in cities has bereft villages of farm labourers across Uttar Pradesh. As the time of sowing ‘kharif’ (monsoon) crops closes in, farmers scramble to find workers. Even wealthy sugarcane farmers find it hard to hire labourers to cultivate the cash crop.
Climate change affecting agriculture in Bihar: CMedit
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said climate change has been affecting the state over the years and its impact is visible, with monsoon getting delayed every year and the volume of rain also showing a downward trend.
Small, marginal farmers benefitted from Rythu Bandhuedit
Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy said Rythu Bandhu scheme had helped mostly small and marginal farmers in the state. Speaking to reporters in Delhi on Saturday, the Minister said that of the total farmers in the state, 98.24 per cent were marginal and small farmers, and the big farmers, who had 25 acres or more, were only 0.11 per cent.
Slow and weak: 42% of India records rain deficit despite welcoming monsoon a month agoedit
Monsoon did arrive three days early in Kerala and managed to flood some states, but for the rest of the nation it has been nothing but weak. Almost a month after the onset of the southwest monsoon, 290 districts—more than 42 per cent of the country—have received deficient and largely deficient rainfall. Out of the 290 districts, 164 received deficient rainfall (-20 per cent to -59 per cent) and 126 received largely deficient rainfall (-60 per cent to -99 per cent).
Farmers worried over sowing delay, Met predicts more rainedit
The Met office’s assurances of an active monsoon spreading across the state have done nothing to assuage the fears of farmers who have had their agricultural operations delayed severely by the weakened monsoon. Having hit the state on June 8, two days before its ‘official’ arrival date, the rains weakened considerably, keeping farmers off the fields ...
Global trade pacts hurting State: Ministeredit
International trade treaties signed by the Centre without taking States into confidence are posing a serious crisis for farmers in Kerala, Agriculture Minister V.S. Sunil Kumar has said.
Why India needs to urgently worry about migration caused by climate changeedit
The World Bank recently released an important report on climate change-induced migration, titled ‘Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration’. It covers three major regions of the world comprising Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), South Asia (SA) and Latin America (LA), and projects that by 2050 climate change could potentially cause 143 million additional people to migrate internally. The estimates for individual regions include 86 million, 40 million and 17 million for SSA, SA and LA, respectively.