The Pioneer

To effectively check the menace of paddy straw burning, Punjab Government on Wednesday warned the officers of the state Agriculture Department to ensure timely supply of subsidized farm equipments to the farmers or face disciplinary action for delinquency in performing services.

Hindustan Times

In a month, the lush paddy fields of Punjab will be ready for harvest. With a brief window to clear the field for sowing wheat before winter sets in, farmers tend to burn the crop residue, causing smog to engulf the region. This happened till the last paddy season despite the National Green Tribunal (NGT) ban on stubble burning three years ago. But this year could be a different story with the central and state governments educating and providing farmers subsidised machinery to tackle the stubble in environment-friendly ways.

Business Standard

Indian Embassy on Wednesday signed two agreements with Myanmar’s Rakhine State Government to facilitate capacity building and economic development in the province. The pacts will help promote agricultural mechanisation and support computer literacy among the youth of Rakhine State to prepare them for employment opportunities in the software sector.

The Wire

On Wednesday, the Union cabinet announced a range of measures aimed at ensuring that farmers benefit from the minimum support prices (MSP) announced by the Centre. It announced a new umbrella scheme called the ‘Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan’ and abbreviated to PM-AASHA to be implemented with effect from the new kharif marketing season starting October. The new scheme will have three components: a price support scheme (PSS) that has existed for several years; a price deficiency payment scheme (PDPS) modelled on Bhawantar Bhugtan Yojana; and a private procurement and stockist scheme (PPPS). As much as Rs 15,053 crore has been allocated under this scheme.

Business Standard

With an aim to boost the pro-farmer initiatives of the government, the Centre on Wednesday approved a new Umbrella Scheme “Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan’ (PM-AASHA). The scheme is aimed at ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce as announced in the Union Budget for 2018.

The Economic Times 

At a time when the government aims to double farmers income, Chaudhry said that rather than saying that farmer will produce and then find market it should be what does the market want and bring in back to the farmer to produce it.

Mint

The government launched the Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) on Wednesday to ensure that poor farmers growing pulses and oilseeds benefit from higher minimum support prices (MSPs) announced by the government.

The Telegraph

Assam agriculture minister Atul Bora on Wednesday announced several schemes for the benefit of farmers in the state, in line with the Centre’s bid to double farmers’ incomes by 2022.

Devdicourse 

An advisor to Jammu and Kashmir governor Tuesday asked the agriculturedepartment functionaries to introduce farming models that help increase farmers’ income substantially.

UNI

As part of its effort to prepare the first state-level Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) profile in India and to mainstream climate resilience into the agriculture sector, a broad consultation workshop was held at the Nauni based Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry

ANI

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Egypt for cooperation in the field of agriculture and allied sectors.

Deccan Chronicle

Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Wednesday addressed a press conference in the national capital. Speaking at the event, Singh announced that the union cabinet approved new umbrella scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan’ (PM-AASHA).

The Pioneer

The term ‘agrarian’ is no longer synonymous with just the rural anymore — it has spread across the larger society. It’s not just the rural economy but the entire Indian economy that is heavily dependent on the progress of the agricultural sector that accounts for around 17-18 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and also employs about half of the total workforce. It remains the main source of livelihood for over half of India’s population. It is also a fact that since 1995, nearly three lakh farmers have committed suicide owing to agrarian crisis. And successive Governments have claimed to have pushed India to the top as the world’s fastest growing economy. Nevertheless, they also ...

The Pioneer

Chhattisgarh will take up ‘Zero Budget-Natural Farming’ in five acres of land available with the Agriculture Department, Chhattisgarh State Seed and Agriculture Development Corporation and the Agriculture Science Centers, State Agriculture Minister Brjmohan Agrawal announced on Wednesday.

Moneycontrol

The committee approved an additional assistance from the National Disaster Relief Fund of Rs 157.23 crore for Uttar Pradesh and Rs 60.76 crore for Maharashtra, a home ministry spokesperson said.