The Hindu Business Line

All India Kisan Sabha by joining hands with All India Agriculture Workers Union (AIAWU) will host a national conference on ‘Agrarian Crisis and Alternative Policies’ here on July 11 and 12.

The Hindu Business Line

The season of election promises is over, arguments have been won and lost on the hustings, but the problems are waiting to be solved.

Agrarian distress is real and persisting, water is growing into an ever bigger human crisis, state power sector has once again managed to bring itself on the edge of the precipice, and the human and fiscal cost of the downward-spiralling nexus between energy, water, and agriculture is staggering.

The Tribune

With this exercise of the agriculture department, the arrival of maize in the market will get enhanced from 4,14,000 tonnes last year to 7,60,000 tonnes during 2019-20. Maize suits the state given the fact that its groundwater is depleting at a fast pace. It requires less water in contrast to paddy. For production of 1 kg of rice, an average of 3,700 litres of water is required. On the other hand, same quantity of winter maize or corn production needs just about 1,222 litres.

The Times of India

Chief minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy on Sunday said the state government, on the eve of the birth anniversary of former chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, has decided to focus on core sectors like power and agriculture. He said YSR was the pioneer of free power (to agriculture) in the country and the state government would follow in his footsteps. He wanted officials to strive to make the nine-hour free power during day as a role model for other states.

Financial Express

A one-week delay in Indian monsoon showed how precarious our situation is on the water front. The images that BBC and CNN telecasted across the world showed thousands of Chennai residents running after water tankers to get a bucket of water for drinking. In parched lands, several people had to walk for miles to get drinking water. If this was the condition of humans, one can only imagine in what condition cattle and crops would have been. These images clearly expose that the Indian Lion, symbol of Make in India, has feet of clay.

The New Indian Express

With farmers no more keen on commercial production of tomato, onion and potato (TOP) crops in absence of institutional price stabilisation measures, the State Government has planned to incentivise farmers growing the three vegetables.

Swarajaya

In 2016, after India had witnessed two back-to-back drought years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set an ambitious target of doubling farmers’ incomes by 2022, the 75th year of the country’s Independence. Ambitious, because doubling incomes in seven years (2015-16 to 2022-23) meant the agriculture sector growing at 10.4 per cent per annum when the sector grew at only 4.3 per cent during 2009-14 and previously it had taken India 22 years (1993-1994 to 2015-16) to double farmers’ incomes in real terms.

The Economic Times

The Centre Monday asked the States for faster implementation of the Rs 87,000 crore PM-KISAN scheme to boost farmers’ income and urged them to send the list of beneficiaries at the earliest.

The Statesman

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday asked states to make efforts to increase crop remuneration by helping farmers in reducing input cost, increasing production and promoting exports.

The Wire

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech, announced that her government will promote Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) to reduce farmers’ cost of production and double their income.

The Times of India

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Monday expressed concern over delay in sowing due to deficient rains but said there is still time for planting of Kharif (summer-sown) crops. The Centre is in touch with the states to jointly tackle the situation if there is any drought like situation. “Delay in sowing of Kharif crops is a cause of concern. There is still time for farmers to complete sowing operations,” Tomar told reporters on the sidelines of State Agriculture Ministers conference’ held here

The Navhind Times

The unimaginable success of the ‘cuddttari’ red kernel rice from Curtorim in Salcete and the directly retained rice of the Ilha Verde Farmers’ Club in Santo Estevao island have brought cheer to the farmers who dared to bring fallow paddy fields under the plough last year and are all set to expand operations this year. The ‘Juemkars’ have begun mechanical transplanting in Santo Estevao and are ready for growing rice in the khazans, both within the village and in other island villages like Corjuem-Aldona. The good news is that rice cultivation has proved to be profitable if done collectively, either as community farming or as contract farming. There is the benefit of scale.

The Times of India

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state president and MP Bhagwant Mann has criticized the Narendra Modi government for keeping Punjab out of the national level committee constituted to promote agriculture and doubling agriculture income of farmers in the country in the next three years. Bhagwant Mann has claimed that the NDA government(by not including Punjab) has meted out injustice with agrarian state and has betrayed the interests of the state, which had been feeding the country for the last many decades.

CNBC TV18

Indian farmers have planted 2.34 crore hectares with summer crops, down 27 percent from this time a year ago, according to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare, buffeted by patchy monsoon rains that slowed down sowing in the country.

Devdicourse

There are new challenges in agriculture, small farmers need to be helped with technology at the ground level so that input costs can be reduced. The farmershould test his soil regularly and there is a need to speed up the pace of organic farming. Stating this at the State Agriculture Ministers’ Conference in New Delhi today, Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Shri. Narendra Singh Tomarfurther added that the farmersshould be given a proper price for their produce, agricultural marketing through e-NAM should be strengthened and agricultural exports should be increased.