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Agriculture Industry
Contradictory monsoon forecasts heighten volatility in farm commoditiesedit
Moneycontrol
April is usually a volatile month for prices of most farm commodities. Year 2019 is no exception. Indeed, it is the month when prices of many agriculture commodities reverse amid the few fundamental factors.
Farmers feel cheated, say loan waiver is a shamedit
Waving his farm loan waiver certificate in the air, Rajkumar Singh says he is better off without it. “I feel cheated because the banks don’t accept the certificate,” says the farmer from Lampuwa village in Sikar.
CICR develops mobile app on cotton for benefit of farmersedit
The ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research has developed an android-based app called ‘CICR cotton App’ for farmers. It has information on everything concerning cotton right from sowing, varieties, hybrids, cultivation and management practices like protection and production technology. The app has been developed so that the farmers can market prices and scenario of cotton cultivation in the year across the country.
Farmers fear variation in temperature will affect wheat cropedit
After strong winds and heavy rainfall damaged standing crop and unthreshed wheat at several places in Agra during the first three days of this week, farmers fear that the sudden increase in temperature since Thursday may blacken their produce.
Hailstorm, rain destroy crops on 30,000 acres across Telanganaedit
The sudden hailstorm and rain damaged crops, mainly paddy, in an extent of about 30,000 acres across Telangana in the last two weeks. The State government on Saturday directed officials of the Agriculture Department to assist farmers in reporting crop damage and facilitate inspection by crop insurance companies for settling the claims as per the scheme.
Workshop on agri waste managementedit
The fifth workshop of Swachhata Action Plan (SAP), on the theme of ‘Management of Biomass (agri waste and municipal waste) into Bioresources’, under the aegis of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), is being organised by DST-Centre for Policy Research, in association with Chandigarh Region Innovation and Knowledge Cluster (CRIKC), at Panjab University on Tuesday.
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