Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
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.
View: Reform arcane agricultural policies to resolve farmers’ distressedit
After the surprising state assembly results of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the upcoming interim Budget is quite unlikely to be a traditional vote-on-account.
Too Late For Quick Fix, Farm Crisis A Lesson For Next Governmentedit
Nearly a fortnight after the ruling BJP lost all three assembly elections last month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with senior members of his cabinet to discuss possible sops for farmers which could be declared and implemented before the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Since then, there have been intense discussions within government and among wider policy circles about possible solutions for agrarian distress as well as multiple problems of the rural economy.
Stubble Burning
Leading by example: Farmers in over 50 Meerut villages shun stubble burningedit
Farmers in over 50 Meerut villages shun stubble burning MEERUT: In a recent air quality monitoring data released by the Central Pollution Control Board, 10 out of the 12 most polluted cities of the country were in Uttar Pradesh, and most of them in Meerut zone. Experts say that paddy straw and stubble burning in many parts of Haryana, Punjab and western UP districts have contributed to rising pollution levels. Most of the farmers in these regions have also refused to shun the stubble burning for lack of any other alternative to dispose off the crop residue.