Business Standard

Aging may not be a serious menace for India as yet, but the same cannot be said about its farm sector.Hardly 5 per cent of the youth are engaged in agriculture though over 60 per cent of the rural people derive their livelihood fully or partly from farming and its related activities. Clearly, the modern youth are disenchanted with agriculture and are shunning it as a profession. The farming population is, consequently, getting old. It bodes ill for the future of agriculture as it may hold it from growing to its full potential.

Business Standard

The average price of maize, for example, was Rs 887 a quintal during August at the Santhesargur (Karnataka) wholesale centre (mandi), around 38 per cent lower than its MSP of Rs 1,425 a quintal. Black gram (urad) at the Alirajpur (Madhya Pradesh) mandi was quoted at Rs 2,827 a quintal in August, on average; the MSP is Rs 5,400 a quintal.

The Pioneer

State Agriculture Department will be organising two-day, State-level Workshop on ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’ on September 11 and 12 in the city.Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Brijmohan Agrawal would inaugurate the event at Government Agriculture College at 2.00 pm.

Devdicourse.

The development of dairy sector is imperative for the prosperity of farmers. Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Radha Mohan Singh, at the inauguration ceremony of the seminar “Role of Technology in Doubling Dairy Farmers’ Income” in Anand, Gujarat, today praised the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for playing a crucial role in the implementation of National Dairy Plan (NDP) and Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF). Since the beginning, the NDDB has implemented several major dairy development programs including ‘Operation Flood’. As a result, India has become self-sufficient to meet the demand for milk.

The Indian Express

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Radha Mohan Singh on Monday urged the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in Anand to come up with a new innovation so that farmers are able to separate A1 and A2 milk for better income. He was speaking at a seminar on the ‘Role of Technology in Doubling Dairy Farmers’ Income’ organised by NDDB here.

Dawn

Nasimur Rehman Shah, a senior officer of the EPD, told Dawn the owners of all furnaces and steel mills had been asked to install proper emission control system (dry scrubbers etc) in their units immediately; otherwise, strict legal action would be taken against them under the Punjab Environmental Protection Act, 1997 (Amended 2012), ...

The Tribune

To manage the crop residue and prevent straw burning, Haryana government on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to setup a 100 kilolitre per day Ethanol Plant (bio-refinery) at Bohali village, in Panipat at an expense of over Rs 900 crore.