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Agriculture Industry
Income Support Announcement Represents a Tectonic Shift, but Inadequateedit
Last week, while presenting the Narendra Modi government’s last budget, acting finance minister Piyush Goyal announced a direct income support scheme for small and marginal farmers across the country. Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme, farmers owning less than two hectares will be provided Rs 6,000 per annum by the Centre.
Six years on, Agriculture policy yet to see the light of the day!edit
More than six years have passed since the announcement of Agriculture Policy in J&K state, but the state agriculture policy has yet see the light of the day.
4 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Drive Digital Transformation In Agricultureedit
The United Nations reports that about 1/3 of the food producedglobally each year is lost or wasted, and I’d reckon that number is not too surprising. Those of us in the United States see evidence of waste each time we go out to eat or do a weekly purge of jam-packed refrigerators. Outside the waste, however, there’s a greater problem many of us don’t realize. Just as the amount of food wasted globally is skyrocketing, the global demand for food is, ironically, set to rise.
For better management of crops, govt commences geo-tagging of agri assetsedit
Following guidelines from the central ministry, the state agriculture department has started geo-tagging of all the agricultural assets with the farmers across the state for better land and crop management.
Agri Min seeks CMs’ support for speedy rollout of PM-KISANedit
The scheme, announced in the interim budget, will be implemented from this year itself and the first installment of Rs 2,000 will be transferred directly into the bank accounts of the farmers by March.
Inter-state agri trading via eNAM in 8 states so far: Govtedit
Eight states including Uttar Pradesh are offering inter-state trading via 21 electronic national agricultural market (eNAM) so far in the country, Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal said Thursday.
Collateral-free agri loan limit hiked to Rs 1.6 Lakhedit
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday increased collateral-free agriculture loans’ limit to Rs 1.6 lakh from Rs 1 lakh. Das said: “Agricultural loan without collateral was fixed in 2010. Keeping in view the overall inflation and rise in agriculture input costs, it has been decided to raise the limit for collateral-free agriculture loans from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.6 lakh, he added. Before arriving at this figure, there was an internal accounting done, he added. Das said, “We will be issuing the circular within a week or so,” when asked about the timeline for availing this loan.
Stubble Burning
The cost of air pollution in Indiaedit
In the 1987 Hollywood movie Spaceballs, the inhabitants of the planet Spaceball would have squandered all their fresh air. They then would try to steal the air of a neighbouring planet. Its entire atmosphere would be hoovered up by a spaceship with a vacuum cleaner. Interestingly, the movie had a scene where a character was seen inhaling fresh air from a can!