The Hindu Business Line

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that the government is working on making Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna more effective and invited suggestions from members on the same.

The Economic Times

The issue of planting unapproved herbicide tolerant Bt (HTBt) cotton has split cotton farmers into two groups. While those favouring sowing of HTBt have approached the government for lifting the ban on the variety, the opposing group has urged the government to take strict action against farmers propagating the banned variety.

Business Standard

Although income mobility improved country-wide in the seven years to 2012, the progress was unequal between states, while the likelihood of children pursuing the same occupation as their fathers declined for those employed in the low productivity agricultural sector, noted a January 2019 study on economic mobility.

Hindustan Times

India is an agriculture-based country and is considered as an important sector of Indian Economy as it accounts 18% of the nation’s GDP. Being the first employer and a primary source of livelihood of 58% of the population, the gross value of a combination of agriculture, fishing and forestry is of about US$ 271.00 billion for FY18. With a share of 32% of the country’s total food market, the Indian Food processing industry ranks fifth in production, consumption, export and expected growth. Also, its contribution of 8.80 and 8.39 per cent of Gross Value Added in Manufacturing and Agriculture respectively made it one of the promising sectors for employment (as per www.ibef.org reports).

The Economic Times

The high-powered committee of chief ministers on transformation of agriculture will deliberate upon ways to incentivise states to fully implement the major reforms in agriculture introduced in the past including some key legislations to attract private investments in the sector. A senior government official told ET that the government has already introduced enough reforms in agriculture through model legislations. However, all states will have to adopt these and fully implement them if we want to transform agriculture for doubling farmers’ income.

News18

Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Saturday expressed hopes to increase the per capita income of the state with an aim to make it the highest in the country. His government is also focusing on agriculture and forest based economy to resolve the issue of unemployment in the state, he said. Mizoram has a land area of nearly 22,000 square km and most of the area is fertile. The present government feels that a huge number of fertile land is enough to feed the people of Mizoram and make them economically self-sufficient.

Devdiscourse

Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar Wednesday told the Lok Sabha that the government is working on making Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna more useful and beneficial and invited suggestions from members on the same. “Earlier also there was PM Fasal Bima…Today there is focus on PM Fasal Bima. But my Prime Minister and I do not consider this PM Fasal Bima Yojna complete scheme.

Ommcomm News

At least 38 farmers have committed suicide in different parts of the state between 2016-17 and 2018-19, Agriculture Minister Arun Sahoo told the Odisha Assembly Wednesday. However, he dismissed allegations of crop loss and debt burden as the reasons behind the issue. Replying to a written question of Congress MLA Suresh Routray, Sahoo said that not even a single farmer had committed suicide due to crop failure or inability to repay loans in the last three years.

The Morung Express

The District Agromet Unit DAMU, KVK Kiphire conducted a farmers’ awareness programme on Agro Advisory Services at Singrep Village on July 11. During the programme, a DIPR report stated that the farmers were made aware on the impact of climate change on agriculture and allied sectors and various adaptation strategies to counter its impact on climate change and also Agro meteorology of weather and the use of weather and the climate to enhance and expand the farmers’ agricultural crops and increase the villagers’ crop production.

 

The Economic Times

The issue of planting unapproved herbicide tolerant Bt (HTBt) cotton has split cotton farmers into two groups. While those favouring sowing of HTBt have approached the government for lifting the ban on the variety, the opposing group has urged the government to take strict action against farmers propagating the banned variety.

Krishi Jagran

“Being agriculture-centric, the farmers are the assets of our country. The farmers play a pivotal role in society as they are the real lifelines of the country. Now it’s time to implement smart agriculture with smart farming and smart farmer”, said Shri Narendra Singh Tomar while addressing the event as the chief guest. He stressed that while everybody is talking about smart city and smart project, hardly anyone talks about smart farming and smart farmer.

The Citizen

Seemanchal farmers, who switched from wheat and jute to water-friendly maize, are earning less despite high demand and good yield, and look to the government to intervene. Rajeshwar Mandal, a marginal farmer in Baisi of Purnea district who is growing maize crop twice a year, was happy with a bumper harvest again this year. But his happiness did not last long as he got low price for his maize.

The Indian Wire, ANI NEWS

The Lower House of the Parliament on Wednesday gave its nod to the demands for grants for ministers of rural development, agriculture and farmers welfare for 2019-20. The demands for the grant was cleared by the voice vote. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, earlier in the day, Rural Development and Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar hailed PM-Kisan Scheme. Talking about the scheme, Union Minister said, the initiative was a significant step to help small and marginal farmers.

United News of India

Mr Tomar said the government is making the effort so that ‘Kisan ke chehre par lali and Bharat mein khushhali aaye (Farmers become healthy and the nation is happy)’. For infertile land owners, the Minister said ‘annadata ko urjadata ‘ (food giver to energy producer) was not just a slogan given by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, but solar energy generated on the land by the farmer or with the help of developer, will be bought by the government. Water conservation campaign is picking up in the country and the MGNREGA scheme will be utilised in this direction, he said, and stressed on Zero Budget farming and Organic farming.