The Times of India

Representatives of various farmers’ associations led by former minister Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao criticised the central government’s move to sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) with 15 countries. He said that 80 per cent of the people are living on agriculture and allied sectors and any attempt to dilute it through these agreements would cause severe threat to their survival. He said that the agreement brings down the import duty from 0 to 3 per cent and these 15 countries would take advantage of the situation. the former minister feared that countries like New Zealand and Australia would take advantage of the situation and dump their milk products in the country

The New Indian Express

Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Thursday said that he would travel along with his party’s 28 MPs to New Delhi, and speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar, to exclude milk products from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. He was speaking at Krishi Mela 2019, held at University of Agriculture Sciences.

The Hans India

ZP Chairperson V Roja Sharma on Thursday called upon farmers to sell their produce at paddy procurement centre to avail of the support price. She explained the precautions to be followed while bringing paddy to the centers. She asked them to bring paddy in tarpaulin covers to protect it from getting wet in case of rains. She said there are 53 centers under Primary Agriculture Cooperative societies and 96 centers under Kranthi scheme.

The Hans India

A high-level fertilizer meeting was convened by South Central Railway to plan for adequate availability of fertilizer for the coming season. Agenda of the meeting was to plan for the transportation of fertilizer to the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh by way of the faster evacuation of imported fertilizer from the ports of Kakinada, Krishnapatnam, Visakhapatnam and Gangavaram.

India CSR

A workshop on ‘CSR for Agriculture Development’ organised by Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater Noida, and National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) in Hyderabad on 17-18 October 2019. The forum provided a platform for corporates, NGOs, research institutions, functionaries of the government to come together and explore the possibilities for knowing the high impact, sustainable and innovative projects and its possibility of replication and up scaling.

Northeast Today

Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein called for proper utilization and timely implementation of budget schemes by the govt departments. He said this in a review meeting of Agriculture & Horticulture Department in Itanagar on the budget scheme for the year 2018-19 & 2019-20 in his secretariat office on Wednesday. He urged the Finance, Planning & Investment department for regular and timely monitoring of the budget implementation by the department in order to ensure proper implementation of the schemes.