The Times of India

The first batch of students from the state’s only agriculture college in Sulcorna, which graduates this year, is set to give the profession a shot in the arm with the degree lending it the respectability it deserves. The demand for the professional degree course at the Don Bosco College of Agriculture, now in its fourth year, has only been growing, taking even the government, which was sceptical of its filling even 30 seats, by surprise. Considering the college has been receiving more than 100 applications each year for its 40 seats, it has been granted permission to increase intake by ten students this year

The Tribune

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while counting his government’s numerous agriculture-related policy initiatives and interventions from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of the 72nd Independence Day, mentioned that a new agriculture export policy was on the anvil. Modi linked this new policy to his dream project of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 and claimed that this would open new competitive markets for Indian farmers.

The Hindu

The State has come out with its own variant of the concept of “doubling farmers’ income,” through the integrated farming system (IFS). To be implemented as part of the National Agriculture Development Programme (NADP), the IFS would require every beneficiary-farmer to undertake a host of activities, apart from agriculture, so that he or she gets a higher income than what he or she has been earning under the conventional way of farming.