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Capt flays Centre for failure to help beleaguered farmersedit
Lashing out at the BJP-led Central Government for failing to come to the rescue of the beleaguered farmers, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday said that the farmers’ suicides will continue in Punjab and other States if Centre does not give up its apathy to the farming community.
How to address regional imbalances in agriculture credit in Indiaedit
In the last decade, agriculture credit has registered a per-annum average growth of 16.5%. In terms of physical outreach, the three credit purveying agencies (commercial banks, cooperative banks and regional rural banks) have been able to add 699 lakh accounts between 2007-08 (440 lakh accounts) and 2017-18 (1,139 lakh accounts).
FM may propose more loans to farmers, SMEsedit
With just few months left for the Lok Sabha polls, rating agency ICRA said the forthcoming union budget is likely to propose measures to increase credit to agriculture and small and medium enterprises.
Mitigate agriculture distressedit
Agrarian distress has come to take centrestage in the Government’s political and economic discourse, more so after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) electoral losses in the three Hindi heartland States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The Modi sarkar had originally intended to deliver on its commitment of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 without resorting to populist welfarism. But as farmers’ protests turned out to be more demanding, the ruling regime is hard-pressed for time to explore alternate avenues for imminent redressal as it is in its last lap of governance. With just three months in hand, it’s important that the Government gets the pulse of the voters right and strikes the right economic notes in its sixth and final ...
Relief package for farmers soon: Ministeredit
Minister of State for Agriculture Parshottam Rupala on Thursday said a big relief package for the country’s farmers will soon be announced.
Farmers should be compensated for soil damage: NGT paneledit
The team visited six CETPs of which most were non-complying with standards and not achieving zero liquid discharge. “Polluted water flowing in river Bandi is a constant threat for health of villagers and to the agriculture,” the report states.
Will FM bite the bullet on income support to farmers?edit
One of the possible announcements could be income support to farmer to tackle the current farm crisis. The various models of this scheme being discussed mostly involve direct cash transfer based on land ownership and merger of existing subsidies.
Crop colonies to help higher farm returnsedit
Apart from grouping villages into clusters, farmers will be advised on what crops to cultivate so that they can get the best price for their produce. It was observed that farmers tend to cultivate crops which fetched good returns. With more number of farmers choosing to cultivate the same type of crop, it has resulted in higher produce and glut in the market, leading to steep fall in the price of the produce
There is need for more commitment to agricultureedit
The Union Budget is not only a source of getting financial support for important projects, but it is also an index of the importance of different sectors of the economy. During the last few years, the importance of agriculture is getting realised largely through agitation. The rural distress is growing. The National Commission on Farmers which I chaired recommended ten years ago pro-farmer pricing, procurement and distribution strategies. Unfortunately, the recommendations have not been taken up for serious implementation. I hope the present Budget will also provide an indication of the political scenario in relation to commitment to agriculture. I wish to emphasise that if agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right. We ...
Agriculture: The Green Fistedit
The Modi regime’s focus from the start had been to reshape the entire farming system in India through an income revolution. The government’s rather larger – than- life – vision is to double farmers’ income by ...
Need Reforms in agriculture sector if we want to double farmer’s income: Niti Aayogedit
Doubling Farmers Income by 2022 cannot be achieved if we are not able to bring reforms in Agriculture sector, said government think tank Niti Aayog on Wednesday.
Budget
Budget 2019: FM Piyush Goyal may review performance of PSU banks ahead of February 1edit
Interim finance minister Piyush Goyal may review on Monday the performance of public-sector banks (PSBs) in resolving the bad loan mess, undertaking governance reforms and lending to key sectors such as agriculture and MSMEs.
Budget 2019: Dear PM Modi, these two pro-farmers moves can prove to be game-changeredit
Farmers’ protests in last two years hit the headlines and became a powerful tool for the Opposition parties led by Congress to pinch Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) with sharp rhetoric. The alleged anger among the agrarian society was evident in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur, streets of Mumbai, Maharashtra and even in Delhi. The BJP governments in Centre and states tried to douse the wrath by announcing farm-loan waivers and increasing the minimum support price (MSP) of Kharif crops.
Budget 2019: Real estate, housing, agriculture in focus; post-budget profit-booking will be there in marketsedit
The budget has always been an event when we expect volatility to expand with perception to safeguard the portfolio and hedge the overall risk in the market we see a lot of activity in the derivatives. This budget is no different than previous but the fact remains it is coming in an election year.
Interim Budget 2019 to be dedicated to farmers: Agri Min Radha Mohan Singhedit
Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Wednesday said the Budget will be dedicated to farmers in the country as part of the government efforts to double their income by 2022.
Technology in Agriculture
ASABE Includes Innovations from New Holland Agriculture, Case IH in 2019 AE50 Listedit
The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers or ASABE have incorporated 3 ground-breaking technologies from Case IH and 2 technologies from New Holland Agriculture in their annual AE50 Awards. The awards honor the year’s most innovative designs in engineering products or systems for the food and agriculture industries.
Stubble Burning
Entrepreneurs Propose to Remake Agricultural Waste Into ‘Cooling’ Screensedit
Come October, the India’s capital begins its annual battle with smog – a toxic cocktail of automobile and industrial emissions, construction dust and a generous splash of smoke from burning crops. Burning is the quick and economical means by which farmers get rid of post-harvest waste.
CSR: Eco-Friendly Alternative to Stubble Burningedit
Stubble burning is a norm among farmers in northern India. The practice includes intentional burning of the straw stubble remains of the crop after it is harvested. However, this activity was causing extreme pollution in the environment. In fact, in October 2018, stubble burning in Punjab was responsible for 32% of the pollution in Delhi, according to a report by the Centre-run system of Air Quality Forecasting and Research.