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India is drying up, fastedit
Congratulations to all… we have achieved 50 degree temperature this year. Let’s cut more trees to achieve 60 degrees the next year,’ a sarcastic tweet the other day came as a jolt. It was, however, hard to tell whether the quiet sarcasm was lost on a majority of the readers who are following Twitter or had made more and more people sit up and think.
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar reviews the progress made so far on the target of doubling farmers’ income by 2022edit
The Report of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income (DFI) is documented in fourteen volumes. The Committee focuses on seven major sources of growth, operating within (6) and outside (1) the agriculture sector. The priority assigned to each will vary depending on the status of agricultural development in States and Union Territories. These sources are:
Serious concerns over Bt brinjaledit
A month ago, Bt brinjal genetically modified (GM) to resist the brinjal fruit and shoot borer (an insect), was found growing illegally in Haryana. This was a different Bt brinjal from the one developed by the Indian company, Mahyco, in which Monsanto has a 26% stake. Mahyco’s Bt brinjal has been under a moratorium since 2010. Even as the government clamped down on the illegal GM crop, some farmer groups have demanded the release of Mahyco’s Bt brinjal and other GM crops in the regulatory pipeline. It is true that the moratorium was imposed by the then Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, despite being cleared by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), the apex regulatory body for ...
Maharashtra: Failed policies, low yield led to sluggish growth in agriculture sectoredit
A drop of 50% in the net arable land led to an abysmally low 0.4% agricultural growth in the state. The state economic survey report revealed that state agriculture growth has consecutively declined over four years. In the production of food grains, cereals, pulses and oilseeds, the state ranks fifth after Andra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Punjab, Madya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Andra Pradesh has achieved the number one rank in the country.
Agriculture may see big pushedit
Agriculture is among the sectors expecting a major push in the Budget for 2019-20. Marathon meetings are being held between Finance, Agriculture and related ministries to fine-tune Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s first presentation that is expected to underline Prime Minister Narendra Modi intent at the recent Niti Ayog meeting — to push for structural reforms in the distressed sector to boost private investment, strengthen logistics and market support to farmers.
Summer crop sowing lags in India on slow monsoon progressedit
Planting of summer-sown crops in India such as soybean, cotton, rice and corn has been delayed by at least two weeks because of the slow progress of monsoon rains in central and western parts of the country, raising concerns over lower production.
Centre’s focus is now on raising farmers’ income, says ICAR chiefedit
As India has achieved self-sufficiency in food production, the Union government has shifted the focus to empowering farmers economically by enhancing their incomes, said Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) director-general Trilochan Mohapatra on Monday.
Agriculture woes delay Maharashtra growthedit
With almost 151 tehsils across Maharashtra reeling under a drought-like situation due to scanty and uneven rains, the agriculture and allied production activities took a massive hit over the last year. While agriculture has grown by a paltry 0.4% in 2018-19 against the 3.1% in the previous year, crop production slipped to (-) 8% against a 0.8% growth last year, according to the Economic Survey 2018-19 that was tabled by state finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar in the Assembly on Monday.
How Will You Spend Rs 25 Trillion on Agriculture, Double Farm Incomes by 2022, India Asked at WTOedit
Massive farm-support plans in the United States and India are being scrutinised by other World Trade Organization members, questions submitted to the WTO’s quarterly agriculture committee meeting showed on Monday
These YouTube kisans make farming easyedit
A buffalo breeder in Ambala sounds like an unlikely YouTube star but Harvilas Singh’s video showcasing the innovative automatic drinking bowl he’s come up with so that his farm animals get 24×7 water supply has notched up 5.1 million views on YouTube. The video has been shot by Darshan Singh, a farmer, who runs a popular farming channel.
PM Modi announces high-level task force on structural reforms in agricultureedit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the creation of a high-level task force on structural reforms in agriculture. Briefing media after the Fifth Meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog chaired by the Prime Minister, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the Committee will be formed in near future and report will be submitted in next 2 to 3 months.
Technology in Agriculture
Agriculture and Livestock Balers Market Analysis -Worldwide Opportunities, Revenue, Production, Demand and Geographical Forecast To 2024edit
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Global and Regional Agricultural & Forestry Tires Market Report with Major Vendor Landscape and Their Strategiesedit
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Stubble Burning
What’s Your Moonshot? Meet The Man Solving India’s Paddy Straw Burning Problemedit
Sukhmeet Singh, the founder of A2P Energy, which stands for Agriculture 2 Power, is tackling a big environmental problem in Southeast Asia: straw burning. After the harvest, grain farmers set fire to the wheat and rice stubble that’s left over to make room for the next planting. Burning is the cheapest way to clear fields, but it is a big contributor to massive air pollution in places like New Delhi. Singh and A2P Energy instead buy straw from farmers and process it into a range of pellets that can be burned as fuel, fed to animals or used to enrich soil. A finalist in the Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity’s Sustainable Energy challenge, a contest for ...