Financial Express

India’s trade policy on pulses needs to be “consistent and transparent”, Davis Marit, the agriculture minister of Saskatchewan, the largest pulses producing province of Canada, said on Thursday Speaking on the sidelines of the fifth Pulses Conclave organised by the Indian Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), Marit said that China, Vietnam, Japan, UAE and Bangladesh have emerged as new markets for his province following the trade restrictions imposed by India.

Times Of India

The Navnirman Krushak Sangathan (NKS), an outfit of farmers, on Thursday demanded a special package of Rs 75,000 crore for welfare of farmers and development of agriculture sector of Odisha. It demanded the government to announce the package in the budget to be tabled on February 18. NKS national convener Akshaya Kumar said both the state and the Centre have been neglecting the farmers and agriculture sector. “We are fighting for proper price to agriculture produces and pension to poor farmers. Out of the total package, we want the government to sanction Rs 21,600 crore towards monthly pension of poor farmers,” he said while addressing media here on Thursday.

The Hindu

Farming is one of the most respectable and noble professions in the world, Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said on Thursday.

Business Today

India’s rural inflation rate surged faster than urban inflation for the first time in 19 months in January, and economists are optimistic that signals something the country desperately needs – a revival in demand in the rural economy.

Around two-thirds of India’s population depends on the rural sector with agriculture accounting for near 15% of India’s $2.8 trillion economy, and rising inflation suggests pricing power is returning to the hands of the farmers, say economists.

Down To Earth

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has said that climate change would push 100 million people into the abyss of poverty by 2030. Close to half of these would be due to climate change’s impacts on agriculture.

Global development and government representatives from across the world made an appeal to urgently spend more on rural development to avoid a catastrophic situation arising out of the climate emergency during IFAD’s 43rd Governing Council meeting in Rome.

The Hindu BusinessLine

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, popularly known as PM-KISAN, announced in December 2018 was a tectonic shift in the nature of government support to farmers in India. This scheme was aimed at addressing the liquidity constraints of farmers for meeting their expenses for acquisition of agricultural inputs and services.

Yourstory

011, when Dhananjay Abhang was working with First Energy, a Pune-based startup, little did he know that the pellet-based cookstoves the startup was manufacturing for bulk cooking also produced a hefty amount of food waste. Dhananjay was not only uncomfortable to look at the tonnes of food waste being dumped in the nearby landfill, but was also worried about the serious health issues it harboured.