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Gujarat’s Agricultural Sector is Undergoing ‘Feminisation out of Compulsion,’ Study Findsedit
Indian agricultural sector is undergoing feminisation, i.e., the rising share of farm work is now being undertaken by women. Gujarat, however, is seeing what could be termed as “feminisation out of compulsion” or “feminisation of agrarian distress” – women are taking up more work under duress due to men having stepped away from the activity, a study has found.
Income-centric approach to double farmers’ income: Agriculture Ministeredit
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Thursday said that the government has reoriented the farm sector by focusing on an income-centric approach that stresses on achieving high productivity, reduced cost, and a remunerative crop price to double the farmers’ income.
Reinvigorating Indian Agricultureedit
The worrisome reality in India is that agriculture is witnessing a crisis. From village to village, farmers are looking towards selling their land and moving away from farming as a livelihood. Poor availability of funds, unscientific farm inputs, poor support price structures for farm produce, and almost no farm insurance are some important reasons that lead to crippling debts that force farmers to see farming as non-remunerative.
Farmers urged to use tech to double incomeedit
The Orissa Krushak Samaj celebrated its 60th foundation day and organised a seminar on the occasion of the World Food Day here on Thursday under the chairmanship of its chairman Dr Purnachandra Mohanty.
Farm credit flows need better monitoring: Expertsedit
Financial express
The Reserve Bank of India should release a sector-wise break-up of agricultural credit, experts said on Thursday, stating that this would help result in a more productive use of the funds for the sector. Currently, about 70% of the farm credit, according to RBIdata, are crop loans, while there is no disaggregated data on what the balance amount is used for.
Give farmers access to global markets: Swaminathanedit
Noted agronomist M.S. Swaminathan on Wednesday said that Indian farmers must be given access to global markets so that exchange of technology could take place.
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With no plan, stubble burning may see 45% rise by 2050: Studyedit
Unless the government devises long-term strategies to manage crop residue, emissions from crop burning will increase by an estimated 45 per cent in 2050, a scientific paper published in Elsevier journal has said. Keeping 2017 as a base year, crop residue burning emissions were modelled up to 2050. A trend analysis of business as usual model showed that PM 2.5 emissions from crop burning may increase to 1193.88 gigagrams/year by 2050 from 823.36 in 2016-17.
Stubble-burning down in 2018, claims Haryanaedit
Incidents of stubble-burning in Haryana have reduced in 2018, a spokesman of the Haryana government claimed here on Thursday.”99 out of 100 farmers in Haryana have not burnt paddy stubble during the current harvesting season,” the spokesman said.