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Agriculture Industry
China to expand agriculture reforms to bolster rural economyedit
China will deepen reforms of its agriculture sector to promote its rural economy, the government said in its first policy statement of 2019, as it seeks to bolster growth and offset trade challenges.
Maharashtra government to intensify IT use to up agriculture GDPedit
In a bid to address farmers’ woes, the state government has proposed to step up use of information technology and real time data to provide timely assistance to farmers. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in an interaction with Wipro Ltd board member Rishad Premji at the NASSCOM 2019 event said the state government was moving towards a trillion dollar economy by 2025 from the present $400 billion with a prime focus on agriculture.
SC seeks Centre’s response on using NCEEF Fund for providing seeder machines to farmersedit
The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre to respond to the plea that a part of Rs 75,000 crore available with it under the National Clean Energy and Environment Fund (NCEEF) be utilised for the purchase of Turbo Happy Seeder machines for farmers for cutting standing paddy stubble as an alternate to stubble burning.
Dump wheat-paddy pattern, time to go on high-growth pathedit
For Punjab farmers, the euphoria over green revolution successes has long been eclipsed by issues of survival. Stuck in the wheat-paddy cycle, most farmers have adopted a model of mass production of grains, relegating adopting of innovations and marketing to the backburner. Mass production of paddy by Punjab — the ‘food bowl of India’ — has also played havoc with the state’s water table.
Stubble Burning
Stubble burning not going to stop on its own, consider granting subsidy to farmers: SCedit
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said stubble burning, the key reason for the rising air pollution in Delhi and NCR, was not going to stop merely by issuing directions and asked Punjab and Haryana governments to consider granting some kind of subsidy to the farmers.