The Hans India

CPM district secretary Nunna Nageswara Rao condemned the arrest of 13 farmers in Nelakondapalli agriculture market and demanded the government to immediately withdraw the cases filed against the said paddy farmers.

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When Kamal Gangrude looks across at the fields beside her home on the valley floor, she sees swathes of farmland which this year will not be weeded, ploughed or planted. Sold to developers who will build factories and roads or generally put it to non-agricultural use, the loss of this farmland has also meant a loss of vital labouring jobs for the Dalit families of Pimplad, a village in Nashik district of Maharashtra.

The Hans India

‘Agri Business Summit & Awards 2019,’ country’s most authoritative award ceremony for the sector, is a platform to provide immense business and networking opportunities and brand positioning. This is the first-of-its-kind event being conducted in India to recognise agri input industry’s efforts in an integrated manner in increasing farm productivity.

The Times of India

For Ramkrishna Mahato, a farmer in Kaithahi village near Madhubani in Bihar, climate change isn’t just a buzzword. Untimely rains, hailstorms and floods have had disastrous impact on his life, and everyone in the community in the recent years. On March 26 this year, just a few days before I met him, an unprecedented hailstorm in Kaithahi and nearby villages in Rajnagar destroyed acres of wheat and mustard crops waiting to be harvested. Fortunately though, Mahato and several of his fellow farmers had harvested their standing mustard and wheat crops just a day before, thanks to timely alerts received on their mobile phones

Yourstory

We all know that home-cooked food is the best. But what we really don’t seem to consider is the backend process – vegetables grown using chemicals, pesticides, and insecticides to increase their yield. These chemicals get accumulated in the soil, and in turn, increases the plant’s uptake of chemicals. As a result, by the time the food reaches our plate, it would have lost half its nutritional value, and we might be consuming vegetables with high pesticide residues.

The Hindu

For intensive agriculture and higher production goals, the entire country shifted from natural farming practices to clearing forest lands in two-thirds of cultivable space, said Joint Collector S. Dilli Rao inaugurating a training session on reverting to agriculture alongside forests.

The Times of India

A district consumer forum directed the Agriculture Insurance Company of India (AIC India) to pay 2.35 lakh to a farmer who lost his crop during the drought. The farmer was rebutted by the insurance company for ‘want of more information’. The Agriculture officer of Ranga Reddy district, meanwhile, was asked to pay an additional 20,000 as punitive damages for not responding to the farmers’ problems despite serving notices.

The Indian Express

How much of a factor farm distress is in the current Lok Sabha elections will be known only on May 23, the day of counting. What’s clear, though, is that the party or coalition in power next cannot afford to ignore the challenges facing agriculture. The new government will, to start with, have to deal with the prospect of a not-so-good monsoon. The Met Department has, in its April 15 forecast, predicted overall rainfall for the southwest monsoon season (June-September) at 96 per cent of its historical long period average. This prognosis of a “near normal” monsoon must, however, be tempered by the warnings of global weather agencies vis-à-vis El Nino — the abnormal warming of ...