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Rabi Crops From Other States Not Allowed in Haryana Mandis, Says DGPedit
Haryana’s Director General of Police Manoj Yadava Friday said the state government has decided not to allow the entry of rabi crop from neighbouring states.
In his order issued to all Commissioners of Police and District Superintendents of Police, the DGP asked them to not permit the entry of wheat or mustard crop harvested from fields located in the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab.
He said the state government has decided not to permit entry of Rabi crop from neighbouring states into Haryana.
As per the government instruction, Haryana farmers have been asked to reach mandis and procurement centres with their produce in a staggered manner after they get an SMS on their registered mobile numbers.
Unseasonal rains hit mango production in Andhra Pradeshedit
Mango growers from Krishna district in Andhra Pradesh, which is famous for Banganpalli, Chinna Rasalu and Pedda Rasulu varieties, are expecting about 50% losses due to unseasonal rains and high velocity wind.
The growers said the overall production is relatively low at 50% though the complete harvest is still due till month- end. Further, due to lockdown, the local traders are unable to lift the produce from the farmers to supply to retail markets.
Covid-19 lockdown: 69 Akola farmer groups sell produce worth Rs 8.5 croreedit
Farmers in Akola in Maharashtra used technology to sell produce worth Rs 8.50 crore during the lockdown in place for the novel coronavirus outbreak, a senior agriculture official said on Saturday.
The three-week-long nationwide lockdown started on March 25 and was extended on April 14 till May 3.
“Helped by the state agriculture department and the Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), 69 farmer groups in Akola took orders directly from customers and delivered vegetables, fruits worth Rs 8.50 crore since lockdown began,” informed District Agriculture Superintendent Mohan Wagh.
Reinventing Agriculture in the Time of COVID-19edit
COVID-19’s economic implications have once again catapulted agriculture into the mainstream discourse. The reverse migration of labourers to India’s hinterlands is having a differentiated impact across regions. While agricultural operations in the well-endowed regions are about to suffer, the hinterlands will have received an excess supply of labourers, throwing up new challenges and opportunities.
In this context, it is worthwhile to revisit the role of agriculture in economic development to throw light into the policies the sector will need to adopt to recover better.
Economists have delineated agriculture’s major roles in economic development, broadly in terms of contributions like products, markets, factors and foreign exchange. Product indicates supply of goods like foods and several raw materials (like ...
Why Sitharaman’s ‘Pulses For All’ Promise Still Hasn’t Been Implementededit
On March 26, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government had decided that all ration card holders in India will be provided one kilogram of pulses every month starting April, for a period of three months. This was a part of the PM Garib Kalyan package – the Centre’s only relief measure so far to deal with the consequences of the lockdown for the poor.
Almost a month later, on April 20, the government issued a press release which once again announced that “it has decided to distribute pulses to the eligible households under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PM-GKY).”
The release also said that the government has so far issued 1,07,077 metric tonnes of pulses to states. “Issued only ...
‘Rajasthan’s free farming service scheme proves a hit among peasants’edit
Rajasthan government’s scheme to deploy tractors and some other equipment to help farmers in various agricultural activities free of charge amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown has proved quite popular with over 4,000 peasants availing these services.
Talking of the benefits and popularity of the innovative scheme, Agriculture Minister Lalchand Kataria said various free services under the scheme would continue till June 30.
Trading of agriculture produce picking upedit
The agriculture sector is slowly coming out of the lockdown restrictions in the Union Territory with trading of paddy and pulses picking up in the regulated markets.
Ever since the territorial administration eased restrictions for the farm sector a week ago, the arrival of paddy and pulses at the Regulated Market Committee yards at Thattanchavady, Koonichempet, Madagadipet, Maducarai, Karayamputhur and Kanniakoil has gone up.