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Agriculture Industry
Coming soon: A radio station spreading awareness on climate change and agricultural practicesedit
On Republic Day, a new radio station dedicated to raising awareness about climate change and agriculture will be soft-launched in Latur, Maharashtra. The community radio station will be based in Lodga village, on the outskirts of Latur city.
The radio station is the brainchild of Pasha Patel, Chairman of the Maharashtra State Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices. Climate-related content will be provided by Skymet Weather Services, a pioneer in weather forecast and information.
‘Yediyurappa betrayed farmers’: Siddaramaiah on state govt’s move to recover farm loansedit
Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday lashed out at the BJP government for rolling back its earlier instructions given to the Karnataka State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development (KASCARD) Bank to not recover loans from farmers in 110 drought-hit taluks.
“Our government had notified the banks not to forcibly recover the loans from farmers in drought-hit areas. This has been revoked by BS Yediyurappa’s government by allowing banks to recover bad loans. By doing this, Yediyurappa and the government have betrayed our farmers,” Siddaramaiah said.
Agriculture reforms: a mantra for equitable growthedit
The budget season is upon us, with a flurry of submissions being made to the finance minister from all quarters. The budget itself could result in a fine-tuning of tax rates and allocation adjustments against various expenditure heads/ministries. There are implications from these for all sectors. And no less for one sector — agriculture — that supports the livelihoods of 495.13 million citizens and 100.70 million households directly dependent on farming, as per the NABARD’s All-India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey of 2016-17.
Combating Climate Change in India – one urban city at a timeedit
Unplanned urbanization has been a challenge, increasing the vulnerability of cities to natural as well as man-made hazards. Natural disasters displaced 36 million people in India between 2008 and 2018. India is ranked 30 in the INFORM Global Risk Index (GRI) and the International Disaster Database estimates that India’s economic loss from hazards (between 1990 and 2014) to be around 4.3 Billion USD. To make Indian cities disaster-resilient right at the inception stage, the efficiency in urban planning can have a major impact on communities’ preparedness and capacities to recover.
Maha Govt to focus on rising agriculture production & farmer incomeedit
Maharashtra government on Wednesday issued guidelines for increase in the agriculture production and farmers income. The government will implement slew of schemes through convergence and will set up tahasil level coordination committee led by tahasildar to seek proper coordination among couple of agencies. The decision will be implemented from January 23 across the state.
Seeds of Hopeedit
It is an institution whose blockbuster varieties account for more than 95% of the country’s Rs 32,800-crore annual basmati rice export revenues, nearly half of its total wheat area, and a quarter of that sown under mustard. Yet, the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI, better known as Pusa Institute) has an annual research budget of just over Rs 111 crore and, moreover, was without a regular director for almost four years until late last week.
Paddy procurement: Odisha seeks Rs 4,272Cr pending subsidies from Centreedit
The state government has once again urged the Centre for release of long-pending subsidy bills towards paddy procurement in the state. The Centre is required to provide subsidies worth Rs 4272.27 crore to Odisha by the end of March 2020.
Food Supplies & Consumer Welfare Minister Ranendra Pratap Swain has written a letter to his counterpart at the Centre, Ram Vilas Paswan, in this regard.
Technology in Agriculture
Technology Led Initiatives Lead To 50 Lakh Ton Increase In Agricultural Produce In UPedit
In the area of agriculture, the overall objective of the Government of Uttar Pradesh is to double the farmer’s income. All the initiatives are being taken in that direction. Information Technology has played an important role in achieving this goal.
Setting up a portal to directly transfer the subsidies on seeds into the farmer’s bank account is one such initiative, which has resulted in numerous benefits. Not only does it plug leakages but also guides the government in future planning. As the farmer details with respect to land holding is mentioned in the portal, the apportioned subsidy is sent to him, and that too it’s aligned to the kind of crops he plans to sow for a ...
Govt. Policies
Odisha Urges Centre For Releasing Paddy Procurement Subsidyedit
The Odisha government has urged the Centre to release subsidy for the paddy procurement during the ongoing kharif marketing season (KMS), a minister said.
The central government has released Rs 1,434.90 crore subsidy as against a claim of Rs 4,307.17 crore for the quarter ending December, 2019, state Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister RP Swain said.
In a letter dated January 21, he sought personal intervention of Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan for release of the subsidy amount at the earliest.
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Agri-tech start-ups set to bloom on huge investmentedit
The Hindu BusinessLine
Capital flows into the agri-tech start-up ecosystem are set to remain robust in the year ahead as innovations fuel digestion of the farm sector with more farmers adopting technology solutions