The New Indian Express

The government is making efforts with an integrated approach and has initiated “multiple reforms” in order to achieve the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022, Additional Principal Secretary to the prime minister, P K Mishra has said.

The Indian Express

Hazy Skies and burning fields greeted The Sunday Express team that travelled from Bathinda to Ludhiana — a 145-km stretch. The situation in fields along the state highway was largely unchanged even a day after nine vehicles had piled up due to smoke from the field a farmer who had burnt stubble, leaving five persons injured. Although the farmer was booked, by Saturday it was the same old story.

The Hindu Business Line

The threat of lower soil moisture levels and delays in kharif harvests across States seem to be having an adverse impact on rabi sowing. Most crops barring one or two saw lower acreage under planting till the end of the week, according to data released by the Agriculture Ministry on Friday.

The Statesman

Amongst the most disturbing divides in Indian agriculture are the sharply alienated perspectives of those who suffer a problem and those who drive solutions. At one end of the value chain are shrinking farm holdings and the shriveled, small and marginal farmer and at the other are the almost glamorous, technology-driven, artificial intelligence-guided food companies, whose success depends on upscaling.

The Economic Times

The government is considering paying a part of the agriculture power subsidy directly to farmers, instead of free or cheap electricity, as part of a move to rationalise farm sector subsidies.

Indiatimes

Delhi pollution is making noise all around the globe. There is a mass exodus of people to other countries. People are paying dollars not only for a better education but even for cleaner air. Indeed, the capital has turned into a ‘Gas chamber’.