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Learning accounts should be priority for farmersedit
With the intent to help farmers to maintain their accounts a NGO Acal is encouraging farmers to do away with the traditional ‘Vai Khata’ forms, the ngo has distributed forms duirng the kisan mela held recently. A slogan coined, ‘kisan bachao, khushali lao,’ is also a motibve that the director reserach of the ngo Harbans Singh Sraon has been working toward. They have already distributed over 1000 forms. Speaking from his experience, Harbans said , “ Farmers are not maintaining any budget and not realising the expenses and as a consequence they are not keeping up with incomes and losses and 86% farmers are in debt. I feel that farming should be treated as business ...
Distressed Potato Farmer in Agra Sends Rs 2,000 to Yogi, Demands Euthanasiaedit
A farmer from Agra’s Baroli Ahir has sent the money he received under the Centre’s PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to the chief minster of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath, reportedTimes of India. “I have sent a money order of Rs 2,000 to CM Yogi Adityanath. I am under Rs 35 lakh debt and if the CM cant help me, he can at least grant me permission to kill myself,” Pradeep Sharma, the 39-year old potato farmer, told TOI.
India can’t attain 9-10% GDP growth without revolution in farm sector: Kantedit
India cannot achieve 9-10 per cent GDP growth without a revolution in the farm sector, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said Monday. Addressing Mahindra Samriddhi Agri awards, he said there is a need to boost investment in the agriculture sector as well as to introduce new technology and market reforms.
Omnivore, AgFunder invest in agri-tech startup DeHaatedit
Gurugram-based online marketplace for farm products and services DeHaat has raised $4 million (Rs 27.5 crore as per current exchange rates) in pre-Series A funding round from impact investor Omnivore and US-based agri-tech-focused investor AgFunder, a company statement said.
67.82 Lakh Farmers Miss PM-KISAN Scheme Benefits as States didn’t Upload Details on Portal: Radha Mohanedit
Union Agriculture Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh said on 17th March 2019 said that more than 67.82 lakh cultivators will be left out of the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme as Delhi, West Bengal and Sikkim have not yet uploaded their details on the PM- KISAN portal.
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Global IoT in Agriculture Market 2019 Emerging Trends – AGCO, John Deere, DeLavaledit
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Technology in Agriculture
Agricultural Balers Market: Future Opportunities, Market Analysis & Outlook To 2024edit
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Stubble Burning
Right move: How data on pollution source will help take concerted actionedit
The Supreme Court asking the Centre for a comparative study of pollution from firecrackers and that from vehicles is the approach that has been lacking in India’s fight against pollution. Governments, both the Centre and the states, as well as the courts have often favoured piecemeal solutions that have popular appeal. But, rarely has such an approach had a meaningful impact. The Delhi government, for instance, lobbed the odd-even initiative on the national capital twice in 2016—and brings it up now and then when there is talk of acting against pollution—but, as a report by the Central Pollution Control Board shows, the move did nothing to improve air quality. That is hardly surprising because, as the ...
Agri officers educate farmers on managing crop residueedit
The block agriculture officer of Doraha, along with agriculture development officers, addressed residents of Daburjee and surrounding villages. They warned the residents against burning stubble, which they termed hazardous for trees, animals as well as human beings.
Annual Crop-Burning Health Bill = 3 Times India’s Health Budgetedit
India’s five-year air-pollution-related health bill from burning crop stubble can pay for about 700 premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences or India’s 2019 central government health budget nearly 21 times over, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of data from a new study.