Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Agriculture Outlook In 2020edit
The Government envisioning to up the size of the nations macro-economy to USD 5 trillion by 2024 treats agriculture sector as integral to this strategy, and the fulcrum of such a transformation. Specifically with regards to the country’s agricultural economy, the Government’s aim of improving the welfare of the farmers predicated upon doubling farmers’ income by 2022 is moving in the right direction, in synch with the principle of harmonizing the interests of the different stakeholders. The particular demands of the consumers for wholesome nutrition and of the ecology shall be continued to be optimally blended, as the nation moves towards achieving higher incomes and sustainability from the agricultural enterprise.
Govt. Policies
Actionable Policies To Make Indian Agriculture Climate-Resilientedit
Climate change is one of the most extreme challenges Indian agriculture is facing today and will have to deal with in future. There have been overwhelming and growing scientific evidences to establish that the world is getting warmer due to climate change and such increasing weather variabilities and worsening extremes will impact the agriculture sector more and more adversely.
Stubble Burning
Farmers yet to get relief for crop loss, unburnt stubbleedit
While 2019 has drawn to a close, farmers continue to wait for crop loss compensation and relief money from the state government for not burning paddy straw.
July rains had caused massive damage to crops in 59 villages of the district. However, six months after the tragedy, not even a single penny has been disbursed.