Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Half-way, doubling farmers’ income is a distant dreamedit
Last December, amid clamour for an urgent “deal” for India’s distressed agriculture sector and selectively leaked reports of a “mega” deal in the media, the Centre released data on inflation. The perceived good news turned out to be rude jolt for the government.
Telangana farm sector takes healthy shapeedit
The agrarian sector in Telangana, once dismissed as a loss-making economic activity with little promise of any positive change in the gloomy picture, made a dramatic turnaround in just four-and-half years post the State’s bifurcation.
Inter-state trade of agri-items on e-NAM platform gains momentumedit
Inter-state trade of farm products in mandies (wholesale markets) through the eNAM platform is gathering pace with the latest transaction taking place at Gujarat’s Palanpur mandi, which sold green gram to Sumerpur mandi of Rajasthan.
Budget
Farm Spending Doubles Over Past 5 Years, But Budget Will Have To Go Beyond Money, Say Expertsedit
In a year of already failing rain and declarations of impending drought, government data on the crisis-ridden agriculture sector that sustains more than 600 million Indians–or half the population–appears to reveal ever-increasing spending.
Stubble Burning
NREGA may provide way to tackle crop burning, says chief ministers’ paneledit
A chief ministers’ panel has recommended that in order to curb pollution caused by crop burning, the high labour cost of converting biomass into compost could be funded through MGNREGA labour.