Yourstory

Hailing from a family of farmers in Kerala, Gitanjali Rajamani quit her corporate job of seven years to go back to her roots. In 2017, she started Farmizen, a startup that allows you to rent a community farmland outside the city to grow your own produce, safely and organically. And when you’re caught up in the city life, on-site farmers will take care of your plants.

Scitech Europa

According to the Joint Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India, the government is “Foreseeing the future risks of climate change” which is likely to impact agricultural growth by establishing policies for sustainable agriculture in India.

CNBC

A new report sees few reasons for optimism in the U.S. agricultural sector, pointing to the global slowdown impacting demand, the continued trade war with China and flooding in the nation’s farm belt.

Business Standard

India has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting up the India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa.

Hindustan Times

I spent international women’s day in Mangalagiri, in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, with Usha Rani. As a single mother for 17 years, she has raised two children (now in second-year college and in high school). Three years ago, she switched to natural farming. On less than half an acre, she practises multicropping, growing maize, banana, moringa, turmeric, chilli, gourd and guava. The products fetch her a premium in Vijayawada, up to two-and-a-half times per unit compared to what she would earn if the crops had been grown with chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Her input costs have fallen by half to a quarter. Usha has also taken a loan of more than Rs 100,000 to build a ...

UNI

The Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare department on Tuesday organized a block level farmers’ awareness camp in Nauli village in Jalandhar East Block of the district and sensitized the peasan

Business Standard

Seeking to address the issue of distress in the farm sector, the Congress for the first time promised on Tuesday to have a separate budget for farmers and help them move from “karz maafi to karz mukti” (from loan waiver to freedom from indebtedness).

Krishijagran.com

The Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar celebrated its Foundation day. The Institute also organized a Technology Demonstration Mela and Scientists’-Farmers’-Interface Session on the occasion. The women-friendly harvesting bags developed under the AICRP on Ergonomics and Safety in Agriculture demonstrated during the occasion, received a favorable response from the various stakeholders. A total of 200 farm women from the Institute adopted villages covering Puri, Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur Districts of Odisha registered their participation in the event.

The Wire

Despite being one of the oldest water-regulator structures in the world that is still functional, the Kallanai dam or the Grand Anicut looks almost empty with not much water to regulate. Located near Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, it was built across river Kaveri around 2000 years ago by then king Karikala Chola to divert water to the delta region to boost irrigation and also to avoid loss of crops to floods.

Moneycontrol

The commerce ministry has laid out a detailed procedure for claiming benefits under the Transport and Marketing Assistance (TMA) scheme, which aims at boosting agricultural exports.In March, the government announced this scheme for providing financial assistance for transport and marketing of agriculture products to boost exports of such commodities to certain countries in Europe and North America.

DNA

Having pioneered the concept of food and agribusiness-focused private equity (PE) fund in India and Asia back in 2008, Rajesh Srivastava, executive chairman, Rabo Equity Advisors, has played a crucial role in establishing the Rabo India Finance franchise in India. In an interview with Ashish K Tiwari, he spoke about the overall investment scenario in the food and agribusiness space, the PE fund’s investments, exits and new fund raise. Edited excerpts…

The Indian Express

Congress on Tuesday announced its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections 2019, putting special emphasis on agriculture and farm distress. In the manifesto titled ‘Congress will deliver’, Congress accused the NDA government of driving the agriculture sector into ‘deep crisis’ through demonetisation and its crop insurance scheme.