The Times of India

Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry has written to chief minister Pramod Sawant urging the government to immediately compensate farmers whose crops were damaged this season due to the flash floods and heavy rainfall that lashed the state. GCCI director general Ramakant Kamat in the letter said that the paddy crop was badly damaged, resulting in serious financial losses to growers. “Paddy, which is the main cereal crop of Goa, suffered at sowing time due to the delayed monsoon and is now suffering due to heavy downpour leading to flooding and erosion,” said Kamat.

The Financial Express

The only way the farming sector can be brought back from the ‘take home’ to ‘reap the value’ model is through collectivization of farmers’ interests through FPOs, and what better it can be if a statutory authority provides for their enhanced presence, connecting them to financial sources and institutions, and the ability to move them up the value chain.

Krishii Jagran

griculture is the primary source of livelihood for at least 58 percent of India’s population and therefore the government is planning to make India an agriculture-based economy. India’s primary wealth is agriculture and the Government is launching different schemes and Yojana’s to help the farmers with the best way. But the harsh reality is that only a few farmers are properly benefitting from it while others are not aware of what’s happening in the world. There is a huge gap between those schemes and grassroots level people.

The Economic Times   United News of India  PTC News

Expressing concern over the environmental hazards caused by stubble burning, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking cost compensation of Rs. 100 per quintal of paddy to motivate farmers against burning of paddy residue in the open fields. A sum of Rs. 100 per quintal of paddy should be given to farmers so that they can arrange to manage the stubble without resorting to its open burning by using the compensation money to meet the paddy straw management cost, the Chief Minister stressed in his letter to the Prime Minister.

The Times of India   The Week

The Uttar Pradesh government has prepared an export policy to increase farmers’ income, Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi said here on Wednesday. Such a policy has been introduced for the first time in the state, Shahi told reporters. “An export policy for promotion of farmers’ products has been prepared by the state government,” he said. The government is encouraging farmers to go for “quality production” by adopting new technology, organic farming and using latest agricultural equipment through farmers producer organisations, Shahi said.

The Indian Express

Whatever name they go by, natural farming approaches are now finding acceptance even from governments. Sikkim claims to have become India’s first fully organic state. Andhra Pradesh has established Rythu Sadhikara Samstha, a not-for-profit company that aims at extending the reach of ZBNF to all six million farmers of the state by 2023-24. The ultimate endorsement for ZBNF has, of course, come from the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s 2019-20 budget speech and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s own address at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification on September 9.

The Times of India

Even as hundreds of farmers in the state have been left helpless in recurring fall armyworm attacks on their maize over the past two years, the recent spell of rain brought them a much-needed relief, destroying all larvae of the pests in Trichy and the neighbouring districts. Confirming the decimation, the agriculture officials said the larvae that lived in whorls were killed after rainwater seeped into them.

The Indian Express

Agriculture is a unique business that not only has high production as well as price risk, but also one where everything is bought retail and sold wholesale. This reality, moreover, extends even to Goods and Services Tax (GST): Farmers are the only businessmen today who cannot claim input tax credit (ITC) on the sales they make.

Nyooz

Dr Rajbir Singh, Director, ICAR-ATARI, Ludhiana, welcomed the chief guest, Rishi Pal Singh, ADC Development, Ludhiana, others guests and participants of the conference. In his inaugural address, Rishi Pal Singh, ADC Development, Ludhiana, asked the panchayat pradhan, sarpanchs and panchs to shun the paddy straw burning. Dr JS Mahal, Director of Extension Education, PAU, Ludhiana, make aware panchayat members about various technologies developed for crop residue management.