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Agriculture Industry
No alternative but to burning residue, say Haryana farmersedit
Delhi’s air has yet again turned poisonous and, once again, Haryana and Punjab farmers are being blamed for that as they are burning stubble. Few bother to ask why these farmers dispose of their crop residue in such ...
Agriculture dept takes steps to provide sufficient water to Birbhum farmersedit
The state Agriculture minister Asish Banerjee and Pradip Majumdar, the agriculture advisor to the Chief Minister, held a meeting at Suri in Birbhum recently in this connection with senior representatives from Zilla Parishad, MLAs and the officials of the state Irrigation and Power department.
MP’s Bhawantar scheme for crops fails to bridge MSP-wholesale rates gapedit
Unlike in 2017, the open market wholesale rates for soybean and maize, two crops incorporated into the scheme, haven’t seen a big decline from their current level, which is below the centrally-set minimum support price (MSP), so far this year. The BBY was begun last year when there were allegations of traders cornering it for their own benefit.
Maharashtra amends Agricultural Produce Marketing Act of 1963edit
The State government brought in a new amendment to the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing Act of 1963, to provide additional avenues to the farmers for selling produce without any hindrances from the local markets.
Organic farmers on a mission to revive farming sectoredit
Manarcadu Social Service Society (MASS), a collective of more than 5,000 organic farmers, have come up with a novel initiative to revive the farming sector of Idukki district, which was severly damaged by the mid-August deluge.
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Crop residue machinery fails to help farmersedit
Despite the state government’s initiative to provide crop residue management machinery to farmers at a substantial subsidy to curtail stubble burning across the state, farmers continued to be on a receiving end.
Long wait made farmers change mind on machinesedit
The Punjab government has claimed that there has been a perceptible decline in stubble burning, but incidents registered a steep spike from Sunday.Punjab has till now provided subsidy on over 21,000 machines — almost 84% of the required target of 24,792 machines. But, these aren’t enough to persuade farmers to stop