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Punjab on song to tackle stubble burningedit
The Punjab government, as part of the ongoing anti-stubble burning campaign, has turned to songs to encourage its farmers not to set paddy residue on fire. The state government, which is struggling to get its farmers to use clean technology for disposal of paddy stubble, has started publicizing
‘Time ripe for switching over to integrated farming system’edit
Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) P H Kurian’s comments to stop promoting paddy cultivation in Kuttanad and push tourism and potable water plants in the flood-hit region may not have gone down well with Agriculture Minister V S Sunil Kumar and the agri scientific community in the state. However, there are a lot of takers for promoting integrated farming system (IFS) in Kuttanad, which is yet to gain momentum in the region despite it being part of the National Agriculture Development Programme (NADP).
Modi govt giving away agri loans to corporates: APCCedit
The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Saturday attacked the Narendra Modi-led BJP government for allegedly giving away several thousand crores of rupees to big corporates as agricultural loans, depriving the poor and marginalized farmers burdened with loan debts.
eNAM: Sowing seeds for futureedit
Since its launch in April 2016, many States have joined the electronic national agriculture market (eNAM) platform by reforming their APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) Act and taking a hard stance with arhityas(commission agents) who had been resisting e-auctioning and online payment. But at the ground level, have things changed for the farmer?
In Hungund, a Green Revolution is on drip by dripedit
If hi-tech agriculture can ensure more yield from the bowels of the earth, why not adopt it even if the expertise comes from a foreign land like faraway Israel? That seems to be the new buzzword among farmers of perpetually drought-stricken Hungund taluk in Bagalkot district, who have become role models for youth aspiring to make it big in agriculture, by generously borrowing from Israel’s agriculture technology. The country’s first community based drip irrigation project has rekindled hope among farmers who had started assuming that farming is a loss making activity. The Ramthal (Marol)drip irrigation project has overcome the vexed issue of acquiring land to build canals as water is conveyed through a network of pipes buried ...
Government may announce Rs 10,000 crore scheme to ensure MSP to oilseeds growersedit
With growing import dependence on cooking oilsNSE -0.75 %, the government is likely to announce a over Rs 10,000 crore scheme under which oilseeds farmers will be compensated if the rates fall below the minimum support price. The agriculture ministry has prepared a cabinet note proposing a new mechanism ‘Price Deficiency Payment’ on the lines of Madhya Pradesh government’s Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY) to protect oilseeds farmers, the sources said.
Why India must prepare to exit the World Trade Organizationedit
American economist Harry Dexter White and British economist John Maynard Keynes were strong advocates of a centrally controlled international trade environment, and recommended the establishment of three institutions: the International Monetary Fund — for fiscal and monetary issues; the World Bank — for financial and structural issues, and the International Trade Organization (ITO) — for international cooperation.
‘Those which have actively taken up eNAM have seen success’edit
In a candid talk with BusinessLine, Agriculture Secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak throws light on the various challenges before the agri-marketing reform process. He explains the initiatives taken to push forward eNAM, and answers questions on why and how the implementation of eNAM is being done the way it is. Excerpts:
Record power consumption in Telangana by agriculture sectoredit
The officials said that the reason for the rise in the power demand is due to low rainfall across the state which has met one-third of the total demand. As the cultivation of paddy is in full swing, the need for water also increased which in turn needs more power.