Millennium Post

West Bengal Agro Industries Corporation (WBAIC) is emphasising upon augmenting maize production in Bankura district to cut down imports from other states. Three villages under Chhatna block are being projected as model villages for cultivation of maize. “In 2011, when we had assumed office for the first time under the leadership of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee we used to produce maize which catered to a meagre 3 percent of our domestic demand. Now, we are producing almost 25 percent of our demand. We are working upon increasing the ambit of maize production in Bankura and Purulia districts, said Subhasis Batabyal, Vice-Chairman of WBAIC.

The Week

The farmers who are cultivating panchayat land and indulging in stubble burning should be barred from taking panchayat land on lease in future, Punjab’s Agriculture Department has suggested. In this regard, the agriculture department has written to the state’s Rural Development and Panchayats Department to curb the illegal practice which is harmful for the environment. There are nearly 1.37 lakh acres of panchayat land under agriculture, where the practice of stubble burning could be stopped effectively through such measures, Agriculture Secretary Kahan Singh Pannu said.

ANI News  Newsd 

In a bid to reduce pollution, Punjab Agriculture Department has urged Rural Development and Panchayats Department to bar farmers who are cultivating panchayat land and indulging in stubble from taking the land on lease in the future. According to an official statement, the Agriculture Department made the suggestion in a bid to ensure a clean, green and pollution-free environment in the state this winter.

The Times if India 

In the past few years, citizens and environmentalists have flagged the enormous spike in air pollution in the region once stubble burning begins after the harvest in Punjab and Haryana. The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) researchers have now shown how crop residue can be used to chill milk in rural areas of Punjab and Haryana. Punjab and Haryana reports the highest land productivity for rice at four tonnes per hectare. A joint report of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) shows Punjab and Haryana are India’s top rice and wheat producers, contributing almost 15% of India’s entire rice production.

Hill Post

The focus on the development and adoption of emerging agricultural technology will go a long way in the success of agricultural activities in the country and contribute towards increasing farmers income. With these recommendations, the 2nd International Conference on ‘Recent Advances in Agricultural, Environmental and Applied Sciences for Global Development’ concluded on Sunday at Nauni. The conference was organized by the Agro-Environmental Development Society (AEDS) in association with Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, Cairo University’s Plant Pathology Research Institute and Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

The Financial Express  Devidiscourse

The farmers who are cultivating panchayat land and indulging in stubble burning should be barred from taking panchayat land on lease in future, Punjab’s Agriculture Department has suggested. In this regard, the agriculture department has written to the state’s Rural Development and Panchayats Department to curb the illegal practice which is harmful for the environment.

Orissa Diary

The state got award for three initiatives in agriculture sector for the prestigious SKOCH Governance Award 2019. Out of which ‘Special Programme on Agriculture Production Cluster in Tribal Regions of Odisha’ bagged the prestigious SKOCH Governance Gold Award 2019. The other two ‘Mukhymantri Abhinav Krushi Jantrapati Samman’ and ‘Odisha Millets Mission’ received SKOCH Order of Merit awards.

DNA India

The bad loans of farmers in the state rose by 48 per cent to Rs 6,326 crore during the first quarter of the current financial year, said a recent banking report. This is, in contrast, to merely 6.79 per cent rise in total bank loans to farmers in the state in the same period. Importantly, bad loan grew faster at 53 per cent in term loan category, which means that farmers are buying assets for agriculture, but are unable to pay loans.