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Agriculture Industry
Govt committed to promote farm exports: Goyaledit
To promote the agricultural exports, the Government has introduced a comprehensive Agriculture Export Policy with the vision, “Harness export potential of Indian agriculture, through suitable policy instruments, to make India a global power in agriculture, and raise farmers’ income”, said Goyal in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
The Intent Is Not Thereedit
If you go by pure numbers, the Narendra Modi government has increased the allocation for agriculture in Union Budget 2019/20. This is true even if one excludes the Rs 75,000 crore provided for the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-Kisan). The Fasal Bhima Yojana has been allocated Rs 14,000 crore instead of Rs 12,975 crore last year and interest subsidy for short-term credit to farmers has gone up from last year’s Rs 14,987 crore to Rs 18,000 crore. Such measures are good but mean absolutely nothing if structural reforms are what we have been hoping for.
Kerala agriculture minister meets RBI guv over farm loan moratoriumedit
Kerala agriculture minister V.S. Sunil Kumar met Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday pressing to extend the moratorium on Rs 80,800-crore plus farm loans to end December and also to reschedule the borrowings through kisan credit cards.
Strategy in place to double farmers’ income by 2022, says FM Sitharamanedit
Finance Minister stated that the Union Budget 2019 made sure that agriculture sector gets prominence while responding to the general discussion on Union Budget 2019 in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Just 6 percent sowing taken up in Nalgondaedit
The scanty rainfall this monsoon season has affected agriculture operations in the district with farmers taking up the cultivation in just six per cent of the total cultivable land for this kharif season. The impact is likely to be reflected in the crop yield too.
’50 Lakh Farmers Received Assistance Under KALIA Scheme’edit
As many as 50 lakh farmers have received financial assistance under the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme till date, and verification is on to include the left-out farmers, informed Odisha Agriculture Minister Arun Sahoo today.
Nothing much for agricultureedit
Though the Budget proposes building rural infrastructure to woo private investment in farm and allied activities such as dairy, fisheries and agro-processing, there is hardly any fresh proposal directed to tackle distress.
Where Indian Agriculture Is Going Wrong – Five Problem Areasedit
In the previous episode in our series on Indian agriculture, we looked at what is perhaps one of the biggest factors influencing agriculture output – the monsoons. We sought to understand why they were so critical.
Welfare fund, interest-free loans to rescue farmers from distressedit
After announcing loan waiver in December last year, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday announced the setting up of a Rs 1000-crore Krushak Kalyan Kosh (farmers welfare fund) to help them to get remunerative prices for their produce. He said the government’s endeavour was to introduce the concept of ‘ease of doing farming’ on the lines of ‘ease of doing business’.
Welfare fund, interest-free loans to rescue farmers from distressedit
After announcing loan waiver in December last year, chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday announced the setting up of a Rs 1000-crore Krushak Kalyan Kosh (farmers welfare fund) to help them to get remunerative prices for their produce. He said the government’s endeavour was to introduce the concept of ‘ease of doing farming’ on the lines of ‘ease of doing business’
New fish farming tech with smart use of water aims to double agriculture incomesedit
In a new venture with scientists at the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) has developed an aquaculture system that allows farming of fish with limited use of water and also enables reuse of the wastewater for irrigation purposes. Officials at the NIRDPR believe mechanisation will drive the country’s youth to take up agriculture.
Budget
Budget gives big picture of govt that received strong mandate, says Nirmala Sitharamanedit
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that the Budget 2019 gives a “big picture” of the newly elected government which has received a strong mandate from the people of India.
Technology in Agriculture
Wheeled Tractor Machinery Market Analysis 2019 – Deere and Company, CNH NV, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltdedit
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Use of right farm technique way ahead to save wateredit
Recharging groundwater in over-exploited blocks can help increase the depleting groundwater level. Many more initiatives like these were suggested by Punjab Agricultural University’s (PAU) to help combat the same. Explaining the phenomena, K G Singh, head of Department of Soil & Water Engineering at PAU, said, “Keeping in view the present situation and to safeguard future of coming generations, there is need to adopt a number on farm water saving and conservation technologies on large scale for optimal use of available water resources to sustain agriculture. PAU has various strategies which can be adopted to use water judiciously for the sustainable development of the agriculture.”
19 farmer producer groups in dist to get subsidy of Rs 95lakhedit
The agriculture department would give subsidy of Rs 95 lakh for 19 farmer producer groups in the district under the collective farming scheme this year. Under the scheme, the groups can produce and market agricultural and horticultural crops collectively which would enable them to seek better prices for produce and go for value addition of produce, officials said.