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Bengaluru to get national centre of excellence in agriculture innovationedit
The State Cabinet on Thursday gave its approval to set up a Cabinet Sub-committee headed by the Chief Minister to decide on special incentives that could be offered to draw big-ticket investments to the state. Though the state already has packages of such incentives, the cabinet felt the need for offering special incentives for mega or super projects depending on the investment amount, employment generation potential and backwardness of the region where the investment is proposed.
Integrated farming key to boost farmers income: Agriculture Ministeredit
Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh today asked MPs to urge states to promote location specific Integrated Farming System (IFS) for achieving the goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022.
Prepare agriculture plans for next 5 years: Chief Secretaryedit
Chief Secretary SK Joshi on Thursday directed officials to prepare a roadmap to improve agricultural productivity and strengthen seed sector in the State.He urged the Agriculture Department officials to set goals for the next five years and prepare plans taking into consideration total agricultural land, production, and productivity. “Plans should be chalked out crop-wise and village-wise, which will help in easy monitoring and assessment,” he said.
Goa minister Vijai Sardesai’s idea to get youths into agriculture: Host beauty contests in paddy fieldsedit
Goa Agriculture Minister Vijai Sardesai is in favour of holding beauty contests in paddy fields if that serves the purpose of attracting the youth to farming. The minister was responding to the Demands for Grants for Agriculture department in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday
Modi’s dream to double farmers’ income gets a leg up as agriculture exports pick up after 3 subdued yearsedit
Providing a major fillip to PM Narendra Modi’s dream of doubling farmers’ income by 2022, the farm exports have risen dramatically, reversing the trend of falling trade surpluses in the last three years. Agricultural trade surplus, i.e exports minus imports relating to farm commodities has improved in 2017-18 and also the first quarter of this fiscal, after deteriorating in the last three years. According to data released by the Commerce Ministry, India exported agricultural commodities worth $38.74 billion, as against imports of $24.89 billion, in fiscal year 2018.