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Agriculture Industry
Farmers hold protest on Vishakhapatnam – Araku Road demanding paddy procurement centre.edit
Farmers of Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district on Sunday held a protest on the Vishakhapatnam – Araku Road. The farmers have been demanding setting up of a paddy procurement centre. Due to the traffic on monday, traffic was halted for almost three hours causing trouble to passengers and tourists. The police detained for the farmer leaders for a few hours.
Paddy Procurement will start again after three days from today, 180 vehicles have been installed for transportation, there will be a rise in lift..edit
Paddy procurement in the support price in the district has been closed for the last three days. Purchases will resume from Monday. The purchase was closed on Friday due to heavy rains. At the same time, Saturday and Sunday were not purchased due to the holiday. Today, procurement is starting again. At the same time, paddy kept in procurement centres from 180 vehicles will be lifted. This is likely to increase the uptake of paddy.
Pointless effort: Imported onions find no takers. Government interventions only distort food marketsedit
Centre’s difficulty in clearing nearly 5,000 tonnes of imported onion stocks, with state governments shying away from lifting them, is a repudiation of kneejerk farm policies. Onion prices have been abnormally high since September, putting Centre on the defensive. It has contracted onion imports of nearly 45,000 tonnes. But with the late kharif harvest arriving and wholesale prices starting to cool, these imported onions may well end up in the buffer stock. Another worrying prospect is that dumping of these imported onions in the market will depress farm gate prices.
Govt. Policies
Govt can save Rs 50,000 crore by reforming country’s grain management systemedit
With growth rates plummeting to 4.5% for overall GDP and 2.1% for agricultural GDP (GDPA) in the second quarter of this fiscal year, everyone concerned with the economy is anxious and a bit worried. The moot question being asked is whether the Indian economy can be put back on its 7-8% growth track and whether agri-GDP can grow at least at 4%, if not more.
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State Government has increased agricultural productionedit
Narmada Valley Development Projects have started making active contribution since last year in increasing irrigation potential in different regions of the State. By paying special attention to these projects in such a short time, the State Government has increased agricultural production by irrigating the agriculture sector, improved the economic condition of the farmers with irrigated agriculture and tackled drinking water crisis in cities, towns and villages of the State. Along with this, efforts have also been made to increase hydropower capacity.