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Agriculture Industry
Farm relief, new MSP regime on govt’s to-do listedit
The Narendra Modi government’s new agenda for the crisis-ridden farm sector is being geared towards achieving the single goal of doubling agricultural incomes — a legacy of its first term in office.
A water crisis looms over India. This startup may have some answersedit
As cyclone Fani raged across Odisha and West Bengal triggering heavy rainfall, the drought situation in the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka worsened. With 80% of districts in Karnataka and 72% in Maharashtra reeling from drought and crop failure and 8.2 million farmers being affected, it was a study in contrast across different parts of India.
Business Outline of Hydraulic Baler Market and Investment Breakdown, Insights, Scope, Forecast By 2024edit
The goal of this Hydraulic Baler market report 2019-2024 is do provide a consensus on well-researched projections of keyword market growth and industry value in the coming five years, and to (as always) provide amble references for further exploration for keyword market forecast.This Hydraulic Baler market report aimed to stick to sources whose reputation rests on their objectivity, rather than on excited statements of companies whose incentive is to see the future their way.
For 4th year in row, cotton crop area still below 4 lakh hectares in Punjabedit
Four years after a whitefly epidemic left the cotton crop ravaged in Punjab, the farmers in state have failed to increase the area under the crop. From a high of 5.30 lakh hectares in the 2014 sowing season, only 3.68 lakh hectares could be brought under the crop this season that began in April and is almost over now.
Fertiliser shops inspectededit
Police continued raids on fertiliser shops in the town. SI Suresh along with Agriculture officer Nasir inspected shops on Wednesday. Speaking on the occasion, they said stringent action will be taken against the owners of the shop, who sell spurious seed and fertilisers to the farmers in the coming Kharif season.
Indian agriculture calls for big bang reformsedit
The new NDA government at the Centre is set to develop its governance agenda for the next five years. During the last five years, the agriculture sector and farmers were at the centre stage. In fact, in the just-concluded general elections, all the political parties raised issues on farmers’ conditions and agrarian distress. However, none was able to provide a long-term remedy to overcome the plight of the farming community. At the same time, much was done during the last five years by the NDA-2 government to improve the condition of the agriculture sector and raise farmers’ incomes. These steps included programmes and schemes to increase agricultural production, improve sustainability and resilience, and raise farmers’ incomes. The ...
Stringent warns of stern action over spurious seeds: Ministeredit
Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy warned of stringent action against manufacturers and traders of spurious seeds. Besides imposing fines and cancellation of licenses, the State government will initiate criminal cases including cases under Preventive Detention Act against those who are manufacturing and selling spurious seeds to cheat farmers.
Telangana credit plan outlay put at Rs 1.46 lakh croreedit
With an outlay of Rs 1.46 lakh crore, the State Level Bankers’ Committee on Thursday presented the annual credit plan for the year 2019-20 for Telangana State. The annual credit plan is up by about Rs 10,000 crore over last financial year’s Rs 1.36 lakh crore.
Data mismatch deprives 1.5 lakh Uttar Pradesh farmers of moneyedit
Problems in the database of the Uttar Pradesh government has stalled the transfer of funds to over 1.5 lakh farmers.
These farmers are beneficiaries under the PM Kisan Samriddhi Yojana. According to Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi, the problem in the database was being rectified and the farmers will receive the money at the earliest.
Orientation prog for women farmers conductededit
Several women farmers participated in an orientation programme conducted here in Lower Subansiri district on Wednesday by the Ziro block mission management unit of the Arunachal State Rural Livelihoods Mission (ArSRLM), under the Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP). The programme was aimed at providing a platform to women farmers to interact with officials of the agriculture and allied sectors, and to sensitize them to important interventions under the MKSP to promote agro-ecological practices. Addressing the participants, ADC Gombu Tsering said the government seeks to uplift the weaker sections by providing them with livelihood assistance through the ArSRLM. He urged the allied departments to “work out a mechanism for convergence of need-based schemes for women farmers.”
Task cut out for govt amid farm discontentedit
When farmers go to vote in an economy steeped in farm distress, the outcome can be cruel and capricious. Three recent examples should illustrate this point.
Q4 GDP growth likely 6.3%, FY19 GDP at 6.8%: Sourcesedit
With key sectors like agriculture, industry , manufacturing -in slowdown since the last nine months, GDP growth in the fourth quarter ended may be the fiscal’s lowest at 6.3 per cent in 2018-19, official sources said on Thursday.
Under PM Kisan scheme, 150,000 farmers in UP yet to get sanctioned fundsedit
Funds under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi could not be transferred to 150,000 farmers in Uttar Pradesh due to “data mismatch” and they will soon receive funds after the problem is rectified, UP Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi said Thursday.
PM-Kisan Yojana: Funds not sent to 1.5 lakh farmers due to ‘data mismatch’, says UP ministeredit
Uttar Pradesh Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi said on Thursday that funds under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi were not transferred to 1.56 lakh farmers in the state because of a “data mismatch”, PTI reported. He said farmers would receive the money after a solution to the problem.
Opinion | Imperative for the new govt to realize new realities of Indian agricultureedit
The electorate has given a thumping mandate to the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded elections for the Lok Sabha. While the BJP has increased its vote share with a near sweep in most of northern and western states, what is also remarkable is their near sweep in the states which voted against the BJP in the state legislative elections only six months ago. The elections to the state assembly in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan were fought on the issue of agrarian distress and the electorate did punish the BJP in these states where it was the ruling party. The same is likely to be the case in case of Uttar Pradesh, where despite ...
Funds under PM Kisan scheme yet to be transferred to 1.5 lakh farmers in UPedit
Funds under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi could not be transferred to 1.5 lakh farmers in Uttar Pradesh due to “data mismatch” and they will soon receive funds after the problem is rectified, UP Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi said Thursday. Terming the scheme as a “game changer”, Shahi said welfare schemes implemented for villagers and farmers resulted in massive support for the BJP in the polls.
Gadkari may get agri or rural devpt portfolioedit
Barely 24 hours to go for Narendra Modi taking over as prime minister for a back-to-back term and everyone is clueless as to who would get what portfolio after the swearing in takes place at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday. City MP Nitin Gadkari has created a new record by winning for the BJP the Nagpur seat for the second consecutive term. He has kept the saffron flag aflutter over a city known as the RSS birthplace. There is huge expectation that he would be suitably rewarded for it. Chances of at least one more BJP MP from Vidarbha and one from ally Shiv Sena getting into Modi 2.0 government cannot be ruled out.
Smart farming is the future of agricultureedit
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Technology in Agriculture
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Business Outline of Hydraulic Baler Market and Investment Breakdown, Insights, Scope, Forecast By 2024edit
The goal of this Hydraulic Baler market report 2019-2024 is do provide a consensus on well-researched projections of keyword market growth and industry value in the coming five years, and to (as always) provide amble references for further exploration for keyword market forecast.This Hydraulic Baler market report aimed to stick to sources whose reputation rests on their objectivity, rather than on excited statements of companies whose incentive is to see the future their way.
Stubble Burning
Stubble burning in Kuttanad: An agricultural menace that is an environmental threatedit
For decades now, stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana has created severe environment problems in the two states and in the neighbouring Union Territory of Delhi. Toxic gases are released from the fields being burnt, aggravating the smog the states experience every winter. This agricultural menace has now travelled all the way down south and struck Kuttanad, the rice bowl of Kerala. For the past 6 years, farmers in the region have been setting their paddy fields on fire post-harvest to remove stubble. According to most farmers, burning fields is a much cheaper alternative to manually removing the stubble.