The Economic Times

Technologies developed by the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) have significantly contributed in increasing agriculture production, said Agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh.

The Hindu

The International Society of Extension Education (ISEE) has proposed a five-point formula to States, particularly Karnataka, for bailing out farmers from crises and to make agriculture a profitable venture.

Hindustan Times

The All India Kisan Sabha raised the demands of remunerative prices, i.e. one-and-a-half times the cost of production for all crops and their assured procurement at that price and punishment to those who pay less than that price and a one-time waiver of all loans from public sector banks, co-operative banks and all private money lenders. Both the steps should be taken together. This benefit should be given to all farmers, including small and marginal farmers, tenant farmers and agricultural workers.

Down To Earth

It is almost a year since Rahamdin Khan hasn’t got any good sleep. A resident of Khoabas, a bucolic village of 500 households at the foothills of Aravalli mountain range in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, Rahamdin witnessed a cruel turn in his fate some four years ago.

Krishi Jagran

The effects of climate change along with rising pollution are causing direct harm not just to human beings, but also to the agricultural crops. Agriculture Ministry in a written response to the parliamentary committee said that crops like wheat, paddy, maize, potato, cotton, sorghum, mustard and coconut are likely to be badly affected by climate change.

Timesnow

 RBI governor Shaktikanta Das addressed the media in a press conference on Monday. Das talked about the liquidity crisis, MSME, banking sectors and more in his briefing. When asked about farm loan waiver, Das said that farm loan waivers are related to states’ fiscal space and any generalised farm loan waiver has an adverse effect on credit culture.

The Hindu Business Line

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has informed BSE that the Company has fixed January 27, 2019 as the Record Date for the purpose of Payment of Interest for Bonds.

Business Standard

India’s agriculture production is projected to grow 3.8 per cent during the 2018-19 financial year, almost 0.4 per cent more than last year. However, the rise isn’t expected to fetch any remunerative return for farmers for the second year in a row.

The Tribune

Controlling carbon emissions is a must to achieve the objective of limiting the global temperature rise within 1.5°C above the pre-industrial levels. The use of coal as fuel for energy production has to be replaced completely by non-greenhouse gas-emitting sources by 2050.

Mint

Amartya Sen looms large over our economic and political discourse. A Nobel laureate and Bharat Ratna awardee, the eminent economist and philosopher was in Bengaluru over the weekend to join other jury members of the Infosys Science Foundation that, each year, honours outstanding contemporary researchers and scientists (Sen is the jury chair for Humanities). Feisty as ever, Sen answered a range of questions that Mint threw at him, with his unique combination of wit, intellect and empathy laced with philosophical humanism.

The Hindu Business Line

Even as States are once again vying to announce loan waivers to help farmers, government data suggest that such efforts have failed to mitigate farm distress as they leave out 14.43 crore agricultural labourers, who constitute 55 per cent of the people involved in agriculture in India.