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Farmers will have to fill only one form on government portaledit
Farmers in Maharashtra can avail benefits of various state government schemes by accessing a single application on the MahaDBT portal, state agriculture minister Dadaji Bhuse said on Sunday.
Bhuse said the facility will be available from the forthcoming Kharif season and farmers will not have to fill separate forms for various state-run schemes.
Biometrics – A Boon for Farmersedit
Farmers are the backbone of our society. As a result, the entire population of the country depends upon farmers; be it the smallest or the largest country. The farmers contribute almost 17% of the Indian economy, which is the maximum of all. India is a country that incorporates 12 crore farmers, and according to the World Bank’s 2015 report. These 12 crore farmers nearly form 25 percent of the workforce out of the total 48 crore workforce of the country.
Kisan Sabha forms panel, seeks facilitiesedit
The Kisan Sabha that is observing its 40th foundation year today announced its Jammu and Kashmir committee while highlighting the issues of farmers.
Addressing a press conference, its president HC Jalmeria said the government should provide integrated facilities to farmers for their production, marketing and procurement while ensuring profitable prices to farmers for all their products.
India, China seek simpler farm tariff normsedit
India and China have asked developed countries, including European Union nations and the United States, to simplify their tariff structures for agricultural goods and adopt a more transparent, value-based levy.
Most developing countries including India use ad-valorem duties or tariffs expressed as a fixed percentage of the value of the imported product. Developed countries, however, impose specific duties — on each unit of specified quantity of an imported item, like dollars per tonne.
Single application on MahaDBT portal to help farmers: Bhuseedit
Farmers in Maharashtra can avail benefits of various State government schemes by accessing a single application on the MahaDBT portal, Agriculture Minister Dadaji Bhuse said on Sunday
As India Grows Economically, Pulses Production and Consumption Is Bound To Increase, Says NAFED Chiefedit
Sanjiv Kumar Chadha, Managing Director, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) in a conversation with Outlook Poshan’s Charupadma Pati, talks about how government schemes over the last five years has incentivized farmers to improve pulses production in the country and enabled more people to consume protein-rich diet
Tamil Nadu declares Cauvery delta a protected agricultural zoneedit
Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Sunday said eight Cauvery delta districts of Tamil Nadu including the rice bowl, Thanjavur, will be categorised as a special protected agricultural zone and assured that permission will not be given for hydrocarbon projects.
Asserting that steps will be taken to enact a separate law to confer the protected status to the delta districts, he said here that only agro based industries will be encouraged on a need basis in the river Cauvery fed regions.
Millennial farmers making more money from alternative jobs than farmingedit
A large number of millennial farmers in villages around Nashik district of Maharashtra are making more money from alternative jobs like electrician, plumbing and fabrication than from farming itself.
Most of these farmers are earning between Rs 7,000-15,000 per month from alternative jobs in construction-affiliated industry, which they said is “good enough money” to support their agriculture-dependent families.