Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Eco India: An innovation incubator lab at IIT-Delhi may have found an alternative to stubble burningedit
Odisha: Projects galore on paper, no water for farmlandedit
Over 80 per cent of Nabarangpur’s population depends on agriculture, but irrigation has been a perennial problem for the farmers. While the State Government has been announcing several irrigation projects over the years, majority of them are yet to see the light of the day.
Commodity Outlook 2019edit
Agriculture is the primary source of earning for about 58 per cent of India’s population. Consider how farm produce interact with bonds, stocks and currencies. As commodity prices rise, the cost of goods moves up, causing inflationary pressure in the economy, and this will lead to higher interest rates. As interest rates go up, bond prices fall as the two have an inverse relationship.
Budget
Poll call in budget mix for farmsedit
As the country stares at the general elections next year, the government plans to open up its purse strings for the farm sector with the budgetary outlay for agriculture set to go up 20-25 per cent. Top finance ministry officials said: “The focus of the expenditure budget is being reworked in favour of the farm sector. There would have been a good hike in farm sector outlay normally, but this time round we have been asked to do the maths for several enhanced schemes as well as a possible new scheme.”