Millennium Post

Agri-biotech company Kan Biosys on Wednesday launched an eco-friendly product here to tackle the problem of stubble burning. The product, Speed Kompost, does not pose any risks to environment and helps in enhancing the soil quality and agricultural yield, the company said. The product is a compost accelerating formulation which comprises a unique blend of cellulose degrading, starch degrading, protein degrading bacteria and fungi, it said.

Business Standard

In a major move, the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has launched India’s first agri index — ‘NCDEX Agridex’, for easy reference to price variations in agricultural commodities. Launched with a composition of 10 leading liquid contracts on the NCDEX platform at present, the index is now available as ‘indicative’. It will be made tradable after being approved from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). NCDEX has already applied for a formal approval from Sebi, which, according to trade sources, is likely to be cleared soon.

 

Orissa Post

The state government, Wednesday, in their statement to the Odisha Assembly, informed the House that they have encountered a total of 45,965 ineligible farmers enrolled under the KALIA scheme. The statistics as furnished by the government hinted that the highest number of ineligible farmers enrolled under the scheme and found under the process of scrutiny belonged to Kalahandi. The district is said to have found a massive 2,838 farmers ineligible for the scheme.

The Times of India

Consortium of Indian Farmers Association on Monday wrote to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi offering a solution for stubble burning in Punjab and Haryana. CIFA founder P Chengal Reddy said both State and Central government should announce a combined scheme to ensure paddy straw cut to bottom, bundled and sent to drought-hit areas as cattle fodder. The proposed scheme will benefit not only reduce pollution in National Captial Region Delhi but benefits farmers of Punjab, Haryana and women dairy farmers in drought-hit the area.

The Times of India

Policy-makers, former bureaucrats, agriculture scientists, and academics, in unison feel the impact of climate change on agriculture is bigger, real, and here to stay for long. They also feel India needed to devise its policies in relation to the threat looming large and, if not tackled with precision planning, it could pose a bigger dangers in the years to come

Business Standard

The Government of India’s top priority is to put the farmers’ concerns and rural development on a larger landscape, noted Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman, while speaking at the inauguration of the 6th World Congress on Rural and Agriculture Finance jointly organised by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and Asia – Pacific Rural Agricultural and Credit Association (APRACA).

The Times of India

An agri-biotech company working on plant nutrition, pest and soil health management, has come up with a technology, ‘speed kompost’, which it claims is a solution to air pollution caused by stubble burning.

The Economic Times

The government will form 10,000 farmer producer organisations to ensure that farmers get the correct price for their produce, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said. The finance minister urged states to dismantle Agriculture Produce Marketing Committees (APMC) and switch to National Agriculture Market (eNAM), which is a pan-India electronic trading portal that networks the existing APMC mandis to create a unified national market for agricultural commodities.

Krishi Jagran

The objectives of the workshop are to prioritize action plan for strengthening International agribusiness trade from emerging countries to developed countries, and to initiate stakeholder dialogue and facilitate stakeholder partnerships between actors of food supply chains from developing and developed countries.