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Future group ties up with USAID horticulture & agriculture marketing programmeedit
Future group, through its various retail formats including Big Bazaar, is collaborating with USAID Commercial Horticulture and Agricultural Marketing Programme (CHAMP) to deliver mutual benefits to Indian consumers and Afghanistan horticultural producers.
Tackle crop residue in new ways, agriculture minister tells farmersedit
Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday appealed to farmers not to burn crop residue and asked them to adopt new methods to manage the same, including using the waste for biogas production.
Bihar to up green cover to 17% by 2022edit
Disclosing this at a press conference in Patna on Monday, principal secretary (environment and forest) Tripurari Sharan Singh said 15% green cover had been targeted by 2017 under an agriculture road map.
Centre let down farmers on support price: Somireddyedit
Stating that the state government was committed to the welfare of farmers by taking several measures to protect their interests including implementation of Swaminathan Commission recommendations of support prices to various crops, agriculture minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy criticised the NDA government for failing to provide minimum support price (MSP) to agricultural produce despite making tall claims that farmers’ income would be doubled by 2022.
India’s public spending on agriculture R&D not far behind China: Niti Aayog memberedit
India’s public spending on agriculture research and development is not far behind neighbouring China, Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand said Tuesday.
Employment-income mismatch in agri sector is a structural challenge for India, says HT’s Roshan Kishoreedit
The biggest challenge facing the Narendra Modi government has to do with job creation. CNBC-TV18 in partnership with Hindustan Times starts a special series on the job market.
Song educating about stubble burning a hit among farmersedit
Jagwinder Singh Jodha, Assistant Professor, Punjab Agricultural University, has found a novel way for educating farmers about the ill-effects of paddy stubble/straw burning on our environment.
Haryana to award such villages which do not burn stubble after crop harvestingedit
Haryana government will award such villages which do not burn the stubble after crop harvesting. It will also give cash prizes to those farmers who instead of burning the stubble use it as manure. This was conveyed by Deputy Commissioner Sharandeep Kaur Barar through videoconferencing in her office on Tuesday
Radha Mohan appeals to farmers not to burn crop residue; says govt helping with mechanisationedit
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday appealed to paddy farmers not to burn crop residue so as to protect human health and environment. Emphasising the need for eliminating pollution caused by the burning of stubble as the poisonous gas generated affects human health and destroys soil nutrients, he said farmer groups were being provided 80 per cent financial assistance of the project cost for establishing Farm Machinery Banks for Custom Hiring of crop residue management machinery
Use of drugs on livestock for more milk: HC pulls up Punjab, Haryana for not submitting reportsedit
THE PUNJAB and Haryana High Court has pulled up the governments of Punjab and Haryana and the administration of UT Chandigarh for their failure to submit action-taken reports on the steps being taken to curb the use of drugs being administrated to cows and buffaloes for extracting more milk.
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Farmers to hold convention on stubble burningedit
Despite given a subsidy on buying machines to stop stubble burning, seven farmer unions will organise a convention on this issue at Barnala on September 23. Though in a fully funded central government scheme, Rs 395 crore have been sanctioned for Punjab this season to provide subsidy to farmers, however, farmer unions are now saying that stubble burning is not causing widespread pollution.
Punjab farmers can lead fight against stubble burning in country, says Governor V P Singhedit
Citing their role in leading the country’s Green Revolution in the 1960s, Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore on Tuesday urged the farmers to lead the fight against stubble burning in the country. “Punjab farmers can become role models for the whole country by adopting mechanised disposal of stubble instead of setting it on fire,” Badnore, also the Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), said while inaugurating a ‘Kisan Mela’ at the university.