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Himachal Pradesh is also well known as the ‘Horticulture State of India’. Himachal Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board and department of agriculture regulate marketing of agricultural produce of the state. The objective of the board is to improve and provide better facilities for sale, purchase, storage and processing of Agricultural and Horticulture Produce of Himachal Pradesh. Himachal Pradesh State Agricultural Marketing Board and department of agriculture regulate marketing of agricultural produce of the state. It plays an important role in development of efficient marketing system, promotion of agri processing, establishment and proper administration of markets for agricultural produce in the State of Himachal Pradesh.

Business Today  The Financial Express

Minister of State for Agriculture Purshottam Rupala said the raising of farm income was not possible with growth in only one sector, but the government was making efforts to promote allied sectors of agriculture and that will aid in helping double the farm income. Rupala also informed the house that the government was making efforts to increase the clusters under organic farming and was giving them various incentives. “We are running 20 centres for promotion of organic farming…. We have set a target of setting up 1 lakh clusters of organic farming in this Plan,” he said.

The New Indian Express

The state government will provide Rs 190 crore loan to Fani-affected farmers of the district through cooperative banks. It was decided at a district agriculture meeting here on Thursday. banks have sanctioned Rs 125 crore to the needy farmers. The loanee farmers will also be included in Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and efforts are on to provide alternative farming to them in the cyclone ravaged areas. Under the integrated farming, a farmer could go for paddy, vegetable, pisciculture and poultry farmin

The Indian Express

In order to create more jobs through the mechanisation of agriculture, the Gujarat government on Friday increased the subsidies provided for purchase of agricultural implements from six per cent to as much as 567 per cent. Announcing the increased subsidies under Rule 44 of the Gujarat Assembly, state Agriculture Minister R C Faldu said that subsidies were increased for power tillers, ploughs, cultivators, rotavators, seed-cum-fertilizer drills, Groundnut diggers and threshers, among others.

The Economic Times

Revival of monsoon rains this month after a dry June has helped farmers accelerate sowing, taking crop planting in the country closer to last year’s mid-rainy season level, government data shows. Crop planting in the beginning of July was 26% lower than that a year ago, but the gap has now reduced to 6.4%. With continued heavy showers forecast for the next two weeks, total planting of crops is likely to reach the level in the corresponding period last year.

The Print

Paddy stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana, which in recent years have been a major source of air pollution in Delhi-NCR, holds the potential to transform village economy, meet local energy demands and also provide alternative sources of income for farmers in northern India, says a study conducted by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). Scientists at the New Delhi-based institute have proposed using paddy straw as fuel for running decentralised cold storage units at the village level.

Krishi Jagran

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) envisages use of improved technology to reduce time gap for settlement of claims of farmers. Accordingly, the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, through Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC), involved 8 agencies/ organizations to carry out pilot studies for Optimization of Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs) in various States under PMFBY. The studies used various technologies, including Satellite data, Artificial Intelligence, Modeling tools etc. for reducing the number of CCEs required for insurance unit level for yield estimation. The studies were taken upto address a major issue of the need to carry out large number of CCEs for calculation of yield data vis-à-vis claims at Gram Panchayat level. The results ...