The Wire

Shivraj Singh Chauhan was dethroned as Madhya Pradesh’s chief minister after a long stint lasting 15 years. Although the Bharatiya Janata Party lost in Madhya Pradesh, the party secured two lakh more popular votes than the Congress. Chauhan had a farmer-friendly image for a long time. He reportedly complained to the RSS number two, Bhaiyaji Joshi, that had the policies of the Centre not ruined agriculture, the BJP could have won in the state for a fourth time.

The Times of India

A team of officers from the Union agriculture ministry would be holding meetings with the government officials from Punjab, Haryana as well as Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday at Chandigarh. Punjab’s agriculture secretary Kahan Singh Pannu said that in Tuesday’s meeting, the state government would understand modalities of the scheme and would also share its data as well as inputs about state farmers

Millennium Post

In a significant boost to the agriculture sector, the Bengal government has increased the budgetary allocation for the same by 120 percent. During his Budget speech, state Finance minister Amit Mitra said in the Assembly on Monday that the total allotment for the agriculture sector has been increased from the Rs 2,766 crore in 2018-19 to Rs 6,086 crore in 2019-20.

The Pioneer

To get the first installment of Rs 2,000 under the Prime Minister Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), farmers will have to link their account with Aadhaar number to verify the identity of eligible farmers.

The Times of India

The agriculture department would soon distribute ‘soil health cards’ to 53,162 farmers across the district. The cards would contain all vital information of the soil in a farmer’s land such as nutrient content, chemical properties, recommended crops and nutrition inputs needed. This would help farmers use fertilizers in an informed and judicial manner and reduce expense and improve soil quality, an official said. The cards would be given under the initiative titled ‘Mission on Soil Health Card’, under the National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture.

The Pioneer

In an attempt to provide farm related facilities and awareness at the doorsteps of the farmers of the State, Governor, Droupadi Murmu stressed that Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) should hold awareness programmes on Block level.

The Wire

Shivraj Singh Chauhan was dethroned as Madhya Pradesh’s chief minister after a long stint lasting 15 years. Although the Bharatiya Janata Party lost in Madhya Pradesh, the party secured two lakh more popular votes than the Congress. Chauhan had a farmer-friendly image for a long time. He reportedly complained to the RSS number two, Bhaiyaji Joshi, that had the policies of the Centre not ruined agriculture, the BJP could have won in the state for a fourth time.

The Pioneer

The Government would start disbursing substantial amount under the income support scheme for small farmers in this month itself as beneficiary data is already in place, a top Finance Ministry official said.

Krishijagran.com

Agriculture experts and farmers in Punjab have termed the Interim Budget 2019 as a ‘bundle of lies’, ‘concealed’ and a ‘rude joke’ on the farming sector for which the Centre had been making claims about increasing the minimum support price of 22 crops, promoting  diversification and bringing in improved crop insurance policies.

The Hans India

To achieve sustainable development, an equi-focus on both agriculture and industry is a sine qua non. “Developing only one sector, at the cost of other equally important sectors, is not the right strategy as all sectors is inter-connected,” said Sanjeev Chopra, Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie.