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Agriculture Industry
Scheme for small and marginal farmers rolls out today: how it will benefit Pune districtedit
Over 3.10 lakh farmer families in Pune district will receive the first installment of Rs 2,000 under the newly-launched Pradhan Mantri Krishi Samman Nidhi Yojna (PMKSNY) by March 31. Officials of the state agriculture department said of a total of 1.52 crore farmers in the state, about 1.21 crore farmers who hold less ...
Adopt new techniques, Collector tells farmersedit
The farming community has to keep itself abreast of changes taking place in the field of agriculture and adopt new techniques, suggested District Collector RV Karnan. He appealed to the farmers to take up intercropping and crop rotation instead of monoculture. He addressed farmers at Kisan Mela organised by Agricultural Technology Management Agency ...
Big demand for PM ‘kisan nidhi’edit
Farmers’ continued to line up before Krishi Bhavans across Kerala with Aadhaar cards, land tax receipts, ration cards and bank passbooks to enroll themselves with the PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi that assures each farmer a direct cash transfer of Rs 6,000 every year.
Parties go all-out to sell dreams to Odisha farmersedit
Lakhs of farmers who on Thursday showed their strength by giving a 12-hour statewide bandh call demanding price, prestige and pension, had rejected the packages announced this year by the NDA government at the Centre and the ruling BJD government in the state.
Modi’s Kisan Scheme To Be Rolled Out Sunday; Over 1 Crore Farmers To Get Rs 2,000 Each In First Trancheedit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday will launch the Rs 75,000-crore Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, by transferring the first installment of Rs 2,000 each to over one crore farmers, a senior agriculture ministry official said.
30k district farmers to get loan waiveredit
The agriculture department has finalized list of 30,000 farmers of Indore district, who will be benefitted under Jai Kisan Farm ...
Assured MSP fails to wean away farmers from paddywheat cycle in Punjabedit
Despite agriculture experts and Punjab government stressing on the need for diversification of the crops to break the wheatpaddy cycle for the past many years now, there has been little headway in convincing the farmers because of the assured Minimum Support Price (MSP) on the two crops. To make them even more dependent on the wheat-paddy cycle is the acceptance of demand for increase in MSP by the Centre almost every year.
Farmers from Nepal get organic farming training in Indiaedit
Twenty Nepalese farmers and agricultural experts are undergoing training in organic farming in India as part of a partnership between the two countries in the agriculture sector. The main objectives of the training programme are to promote certified organic farming for improvement of soil health, to share impact of organic farming on produce quality, productivity, soil health and environment, to ensure supply of organic input through establishment of bio-fertilizer and bio- pesticides production unit.
Scratch faces of Cong leaders who doubt Modi farm policies: Shahedit
BJP national chief Amit Shah has asked farmers associated with the party to scratch the face of Congress leaders if they question Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s agricultural policies.
Budget
Gujarat: Firms collected Rs 7,200 cr, farmers paid Rs 2,300 credit
The crop insurance scheme, aimed to provide protection cover for farmers against crop failure, has become a highly profitable business for general insurance companies. Official data shows that the premium collected for crop insurance scheme by insurance companies in the last two years was more than three times the payout to farmers.