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Agriculture Industry
Slide in farm size, but women land owners rise: Agri censusedit
The increase in farm land holdings, a consistent trend since the 1970s, has been slowing down in the past 20 years but there is a rise in the number of female land holders, a possible indicator of higher involvement in farm activities, the provisional agriculture census 2015-16, has revealed.
Agriculture department recommends 698 cr input subsidyedit
Agriculture department recommended the state government to pay input subsidy of about Rs.698crore to 7,47,730 farmers whose crops were damaged due to severe drought caused by the deficit rainfall in Kurnool, Anantapur, Chittoor, Prakasam, Kadapa and Nellore districts. Red-gram, maize,cotton, groundnut, castor, bajra, paddy and sesamum cropswere damaged in the six districts for more than 33%. The farmers whose crops damaged more than 33% are eligible to get input subsidy from the government.
How the govt’s goal of doubling farmers’ incomes is shaping upedit
On 13 September, Gyan Singh, a 28-year-old young farmer from Seoni district in Madhya Pradesh, began a week- long journey, first from his village to the state capital of Bhopal, and then in a cramped general compartment of an express train to Delhi. He and his co-traveller, another farmer, wore white vests with a message in red: “Give us our payment for the chana (chick peas).”
Govt. gives in to some demands, but farmers adamantedit
As the thousands of protesting farmers affiliated to the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Tikait group) were prevented from entering Delhi in support of their demands, Minister of State for Agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Tuesday said the Centre would consider reducing GST on farm equipment to 5%. The farmers have demanded that farm equipment be exempt.
World’s food and agriculture system broken: Olam chiefedit
Sunny Verghese, co-founder and group CEO, Olam international and Chairman, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, urged planters to wake up to uberisation of the industry with ability to develop brands with social media and develop a sense of environmental intelligence
Senior administrative secretaries to sensitise, motivate farmers in Pbedit
Punjab Government on Tuesday deputed 10 senior Administrative Secretaries to effectively check the menace of stubble burning by sensitising and motivating all stakeholders against the harmful practice, besides taking stock of paddy procurement operation on daily basis.