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Gujarat Budget: Key highlightsedit
The Gujarat Budget was announced on Tuesday by Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel for the remaining eight months of 2019 – 2020. Here are the highlights of the budget presented in the assembly
Modi Sets Up Chief Ministers’ Panel For Agriculture Reformsedit
The high-powered committee will have CMs of Karnataka, Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, UP, MP & Union ministers for agriculture, rural development & panchayati raj as members. Fadnavis is the convenor of the committee while NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand is its the member-secretary. The committee would suggest modalities for adoption and time bound implementation of agriculture sector reforms in two months, the government said in a statement.
Soil heath card scheme progressing well: Dir Agricultureedit
While taking stock of the Soil Health Card Scheme in Kashmir Division, Director Agriculture Kashmir Syed Altaf Aijaz Andrabi Tuesday said that the scheme is progressing well despite various challenges. The soil health card scheme is among the flagship programmes of the Prime Minister.
Govt sets up high-powered committee of CMs to ‘transform Indian agricultureedit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday constituted a high-powered committee of chief ministers for the transformation of agriculture and raising farmers’ income.
State govt sets up agriculture mission to help farming sectoredit
The state government has constituted an agriculture mission to address the issues of the farmers and farming sector. Chief minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy will be the chairman and will be assisted by former member of Indian Council for Agriculture Research and YSRC farmers’ wing president M V S Nagi Reddy. The chief minister has appointed ministers and secretaries of agriculture, cooperatives, revenue, irrigation, power, animal husbandry, fisheries and marketing departments as members. Besides, the chief minister has also included former vicechancellor of Acharya N G Ranga Agriculture University, Professor P Raghava Reddy, agriculture economist, Chandrasekhar Reddy, farmers’ representatives, Boya Narendra, Jinnuri Rama Rao and Gontu Raghuram, nominee of Ananthapur-based Rural Development Turst, nominee of Dr ...
Agriculture, job scheme key focus of cash-strapped govtedit
The cash-strapped Madhya Pradesh’s budget for the financial year 2019-2020 is likely to be worth Rs 2,30,000 crore. Though the seven-month-old Congress government cannot afford to spend lavishly, it aims to give respite to the agriculture sector and not levy any new direct tax that would hit the common man. After agriculture, youth and employment generation is the second area that is in focus for the state government. The budget will be presented during the state assembly’s monsoon session which will commence from July 8. In 2018-19, the budget presented by the then BJP government was of Rs 2,04,642.44 crore. It is expected to be increased by over 12 per cent this time.
Maharashtra govt under fire for graft in agriculture sectoredit
Amidst dismal performance of agriculture, the Comptroller & Auditor General of India (CAG) has castigated the state government for pitfalls in distribution of agricultural inputs to farmers for the period 2013-18. Even though several cases of misappropriation of money collected as farmers’ contribution by officials from beneficiaries were reported, the state agriculture department did not take stringent action against erring officials resulting in huge pendency of amount payable to suppliers.
Why The Government Needs To Review Support Price And Other Agricultural Policiesedit
On 28 June, Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, told the Rajya Sabha that the government has no plans to fix a minimum support price (MSP) for milk. The statement should put to rest speculations over the government coming up with an MSP for milk.
Budget
How Arun Jaitley treated agriculture in his Budgetsedit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s poll promise of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 was one of the factors that led him to a massive victory in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Budgets presented by former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley focussed on this ambitious goal and saw the rollout of several farmer welfare schemes.
Budget 2019 | The job challenges for Modi 2.0edit
The Modi 2.0 government’s upcoming budget will be challenged for its focus on distressed job growth reported by the recent labour statistics. Employment opportunities, or rather the lack of it, had dominated the discourse before the 2019 elections. Job creation was a major poll promise made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during its campaign before the 2014 elections.
Technology in Agriculture
Agricultural Balers Market Trends 2019 | Growth by Top Companies: John Deere, Vermeer, Claasedit
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Combine Harvester Market Size, Market Competition By Company, Country, Application/Type & Forecast To 2024edit
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Post revenue decline, shift to mechanisation in European agri eqpt mktedit
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Stubble Burning
Farmers will have to change their priority, PAU to focus more on agro processing; Dhillonedit
Baldev Singh Dhillon, a recipient of the Padma Shri, began his third term as VC of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) on Monday after getting another extension till June 2021. In a free wheeling interview with Mehak Jain, he talked about the progress the university has made in the last few years and the new projects which would be taken up on priority. Q. How satisfying has been your earlier tenure and how are your gearing up for the new challenges after getting second extension at PAU?