Business Standard

Trade in agricultural products will make an increasingly key contribution to feeding the planet and responding to famines as climate change is set to significantly alter the ability of many world regions to produce food, according to a new report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The Better India

Delhi’s 16.3 million residents experience devastatingly dangerous levels of air pollution in their city, irrespective of what some apologists would like to suggest. The numbers don’t lie.In parts of the city, air quality index (AQI) readings had hit 999—the equivalent of smoking 45 cigarettes a day. According to the World Health Organization, Delhi has the worst air quality in the world alongside other Indian cities like Gwalior, Allahabad, and Ludhiana. According to one study, approximately 15,000 people died prematurely in Delhi due to particulate matter in 2016.

The Hans India

At present about five lakh farmers adopted ZBNF and cultivating various crops in 66,000 hectares in the state. Subhash Palekar Guru of ZBNF and agriculture scientists are giving advises and suggestions to the farmers who started nature farming. The farmers are feeling that agriculture was viable if the cost of cultivation reduced.

The Asian Age

State electricity regulator, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), has decided to undertake a third-party verification of agricultural sales to get an accurate assessment of agricultural power consumption in the state. It will take at least a year to complete the assessment as the regulator will have to consider sales during different agricultural seasons as the energy requirements may differ, according to MERC member Mukesh Khullar

The Times of India

Senior bureaucrats Sanjay Agarawal and Sanjeev Ranjan have been appointed as Agriculture Secretary and NHAI chief respectively as part of a bureaucratic reshuffle effected Monday. Agarawal, who is at present serving in his cadre state Uttar Pradesh, will be Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare on superannuation of S K Pattanayak, on September 30, an order issued by the Personnel Ministry said.

UNI

A large of farmers gathered was witnessed at the kisan mela organised by Punjab Agricultural University(PAU) at Nag Kalan Jahangir regional research station, Amritsar on Monday.

The Indian Express

DURING THE fourth segment of a series of Kisan Melas organised by the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Vice-Chancellor Dr B S Dhillon highlighted that farmers must select zinc fortified and yellow rust resistant wheat varieties for the coming Rabi season. He was speaking at the Kisan Mela organised at Faridkot Monday. On export of basmati, Dr Dhillon cautioned against unnecessary spraying of pesticide that had affected the country’s export of basmati to some countries in the past.

The Tribune

“Farmers from the historic district should come forward on their own to take a lead in the state in completely eliminating the menace of burning residue as residents did in curbing the female foeticide, “said Shiv Dular Singh Dhillon, Deputy Commissioner (DC), Fatehgarh Sahib, while making a passionate appeal in his address to the farming community after inaugurating the district-level farmers’ awareness camp, organised by the District Agriculture and Kisan Bhalai Department, at Mata Gujri College here today.