Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Food subsidy: Centre’s unpaid bills to FCI to touch Rs2 lakh croreedit
Steep hikes in minimum support prices (MSP) and lower realisation from sales of grains by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have pushed the Centre’s food subsidy bill over the last few years, inflating its unpaid bills to FCI to a staggering Rs 2 lakh crore by the end of FY19.
Agri min urges progressive farmers to make farming profitable without subsidiesedit
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Monday urged ‘progressive’ farmers to think of contributing to the country’s farm GDP and set example by making farming profitable without depending on government subsidies.
Nanotechnology promises less damage, better benefits for agricultural produce nanotechnology promises less damage, better benefits for agricultural produceedit
Nanotechnology has been supporting the Indian agricultural market to develop products and processes with higher efficiency and lower costs. With the increasing scope to commercialise this technology, the government has now proposed a set of guidelines to regulate and maintain quality and safety of the products and processes.
Hard Row to Hoe: Why the Farmers’ Cost of Irrigation Needs Serious Attention in Indiaedit
The current state of Indian agriculture theoretically explains a scenario where land holdings are getting fragmented, thereby creating more land owners who, in turn, are irrigating their lands. According to Phase 2 data of agricultural census 2025-16, total land holding area, net sown area and net cultivated area in the country has reduced. But more number of people are buying land for agricultural production, while uncultivated land area has increased.
Sons of the soiledit
The number has now crossed 3 lacs – that is the number of farmers who preferred to end their lives, to continuing the extremely stressful existence of an Indian farmer since 1995. The phenomena is spread over many states but Maharashtra tops the list with more than 60000 suicides by farmers. And the sad reality is that the suicides continue and we have not been able to find a long term permanent solution to this problem of growing rural distress.
Budget
Food subsidy: Centre’s unpaid bills to FCI to touch Rs2 lakh croreedit
Steep hikes in minimum support prices (MSP) and lower realisation from sales of grains by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) have pushed the Centre’s food subsidy bill over the last few years, inflating its unpaid bills to FCI to a staggering Rs 2 lakh crore by the end of FY19.
Competition
‘Time Maharashtra took the lead again in bringing in special economic zones’edit
Leading industrialist and Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra on Monday said that with the exodus of manufacturers from China, India has a “historic opportunity” that it should grab by creating special economic zones. Speaking at the Loksatta ‘Advantage Maharashtra – Driving India’s Growth Engine’ conclave held at a leading hotel in Cuffe Parade, Mahindra said, “Right now there is another historic opportunity in front of us and that is the exodus of global manufacturing companies from China.
Technology in Agriculture
Nanotechnology promises less damage, better benefits for agricultural produce nanotechnology promises less damage, better benefits for agricultural produceedit
Nanotechnology has been supporting the Indian agricultural market to develop products and processes with higher efficiency and lower costs. With the increasing scope to commercialise this technology, the government has now proposed a set of guidelines to regulate and maintain quality and safety of the products and processes.