The Economic Times 

India has sought greater access for agricultural and animal husbandry products in Chinese market to boost exports and bridge trade deficit with the neighbouring country, an official said.

The Times of India

Soon, it would be possible for anyone to just look at a map and know the nutrient levels of agricultural lands in each village across the state and decide which crops can be feasibly cultivated there. The state agriculture department has undertaken a project under the ‘Soil Health Card Mission’ to create a ‘soil resource inventory and sampling’. Under this, officials are collecting soil samples from revenue villages across the state to analyze them and create thematic maps.

The Times of India

After former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan denied that his brother had applied for farm loan waiver, state agriculture minister Sachin Yadav took a dig at him by saying that when Shivraj doesn’t even know who all had applied for farm loan waiver in his own family, how can he talk about entire farmers of the state. Earlier in the day, Congress spokesperson Narendra Saluja made public the two applications of Shivraj’s relatives regarding loan waiver. The applications were that of Rohit Singh, brother of former CM, and Niranjan Singh, son of Chouhan’s uncle. Besides other details, the applications also carried the details of Aadhaar card and area of the agriculture land.

ORF

After the recent spat between the PepsiCo and a handful of potato farmers from Gujarat, the debate surrounding contract farming has resurfaced. Just because these small farmers were growing and selling potato varieties that are reserved for and patented by the PepsiCo for the production of their popular chips ‘Lays’, heavy fines of more than a crore of rupees each were going to be imposed on them by the company. Following the activists’ fury and their invoking of India’s laws on farmers’ rights, Protection of Plant Variety and Farmers’ Right (PPVFR), the PepsiCo retracted its belligerent step and has offered to take the farmers into its fold of contract farming and letting them produce and sell potatoes of the special ...

News Services Decision

In Odisha, more than 33% crop has been damaged due to Cyclone Fani that hit the eastern coastline last week.  Nearly 1,22,000 hectors of agricultural land were badly affected in 14 districts of the state. According to the preliminary estimates, assistance for crops amounting to 145 crore rupees will be required.

Krishijagran.com

Pusa Krishi Incubator at Zonal Technology Management – Business Planning Development (ZTM-BPD) unit of Indian Agriculture Research Institute, is organizing phase 2 of the SAMARTH: Innovation & Incubation Induction program. The theme of this program is Partnership and Prosperity for All and discussion will focus on the Planning and Execution of an Incubation program.

The Times of India

The agriculture department in Trichy has asked farmers, who take up maize cultivation, to adopt various methods to save their crop from being attacked by armyworm. Maize crop, cultivated on thousands of acres in Trichy last year, was destroyed by the worm leaving hundreds of farmers worried. The fall armyworm destroyed the crop cultivated in Vairichettipalayam, Kottampatti, Muthaiahpalayam, Muthurajapalayam, Sobanapuram, Osarapalli, Sikkathambur, Kudukkur, Sengattupatti, Keerambur, Pullambadi, Kallakudi, Melarasur, Peruvalappur, Sirukalappur, Uttathoor and Nambakuruchi villages falling under Thuraiyur, Uppiliapuram and Pullambadi unions in Trichy. Farmers had staged protests demanding Rs 25,000 as compensation per acre.