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NASA satellites spot waste burning in Delhiedit
Over the last few days, Nasa satellites have picked up several ‘red dots’ inside Delhi, indicating that incidents of waste burning in the open are continuing unabated in the national capital, despite a ban.
International millets trade fair 2019 announced at a promo meet in Bengaluruedit
The Organics and Millets International Trade Fair 2019, organised by the Karnataka’s Department of Agriculture, will be held from 18-20 January. At the curtain raiser in Bengaluru, NH Shivashankara Reddy, state minister for Agriculture said that the second edition of the trade fair will revolve around the theme of K-Source, celebrating the State as the source for next-gen smart foods.
Hike in MSPs in July was well below ones announced in FY 2009 & FY 2013: RBIedit
The hike in minimum support prices (MSP) for kharif crop announced in July by the Narendra Modi Government was “well below” the ones effected under the previous UPA Governments in 2008-09 and 2012-13, the Reserve Bank has said.
Collectors asked to issue Rythu sops to farmersedit
The Hyderabad High Court has directed the principal secretary of Agriculture department and collectors of Siddipet and Nagarkurnool districts to extend financial assistance to the petitioner farmers under the Rythu Bandhu scheme.
Combine harvester added agricultural implement category, will have lower taxedit
The Union government has accepeted the three-year-old demand of the combine harvester manufactures and changed its classification to the agricultural implement. The combine harvester has been shifted from the category of construction equipment into agricultural equipment due to which the purchaser will save on taxes
Digital makeover for delta farmers to boost crop yields in deltasedit
Farming in Krishna and Godavari deltas, known as the rice bowl of South India, is set to go hitech. The uneducated farmers are being trained to use ‘Internet of Things (IoT)’ to meet food shortage by boosting productivity and fighting pests natural with the help of technologies.
Agricultural policies need to be producer-oriented, says expertedit
“All these years, our agricultural policies have been predominantly consumer-oriented. We need to reorient them to make them producer-oriented,” Ashok Dalwai, head of the Committee on Doubling of Farmers’ Income, said here recently.
Farmers suffer as PM’s agri scheme yet to take off in Biharedit
The ambitious Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, approved by the Centre in July 2015 for ensuring “more crop per drop” so as to conserve water as well as boost agriculture production, remains merely a dream in the state even after three years.