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Agriculture Industry
Supply crisis looms as arrival of vegetables, fruits down sharply at Delhi’s Azadpur mandiedit
The worst fears of a major disruption of the food supply chain due to the prolonged lockdown might come true. While 40-50% of the fruits and vegetables output, including the crop harvested over the last few weeks and the standing crop, is estimated to have perished due to the absence/shortage of labour and transport, market arrivals are learnt to have slumped further in the second fortnight of April.
Assam agri dept to distribute kharif vegetable seed kits door to door in Jorhatedit
In a bid to stave the looming vegetable crises in the coming days, Assam Agriculture Department in Jorhat will distribute seed kits of kharif vegetables from door to door.
The project envisages giving seed kits to 10000 households located in urban and semi urban areas of Jorhat district.
Named the lao (bottle gourd), jika (ridged gourd) bhol (sponge gourd) asoni (project), the kits will contain seeds of the aforementioned vegetables as well as that of cowpea, cucumber and papaya.
Direct Marketing of farm produce shows promise: Tomaredit
The governmental efforts to promote direct marketing of agri produce in the wake of Corona scare seem to bear fruits with more and more states making provisions for the same.
It bears recall that Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has sent a letter earlier to the Chief Ministers of States reiterating the need for direct marketing through Cooperatives and Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) etc.
COVID 19 Aggravating Tribal’s Struggle for Survival : Agri And Forest Based Livelihood Offer Solutionsedit
Covid19 infection that has begun from Wuhan in China in November 2019 which has now infected over 3237600 patients in 184 countries till end of April 2020 and led to mortality of over 228828 persons worldwide. In over five and half months virus has reached width and breath across the world and impacted severely at various level. The countries which were well equipped itself with Missile to safeguard their sovereignty but caught off-guard and were ill equipped to deal with Microbes and incidentally it also brought to light lack of preparedness and importance of investment in the area of basic healthcare. COVID 19 has severe implications in the area of business, employment, livelihood, environment, economy, international relations, ...
App helps farmers connect with consumers during extended COVID-19 lockdownedit
The extension of the lockdown has caused problems of procurement for the Centre and farmers across the country are anxious about their crop. To ease their anxiety and with an aim to help sell their produce directly to the customer, Harvesting Farmer Network (HFN) is connecting over 10000 farmers across the country directly to customers through social media.
According to Ruchit Garg, founder of the HFN, the platform has helped farmers from across the country sell over 2 lakh kg of produce in the past 15 days.
Post-pandemic agri reforms in focus, India tests cross a million: Covid-19 news todayedit
Outlining an ambitious post-pandemic agenda for agricultural reform, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked his top ministers and bureaucrats to start working on a new set of reforms to cut down on archaic regulations, raise farm-gate prices, unify domestic markets as well as integrate the farm economy into global value chains. Meanwhile, the number of samples tested for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the country has crossed a million.
Here is a preview of important Covid-19 news today from India and the world.
Govt plans major agricultural reforms post-coronavirus
The PM suggested these reforms at a high level review meeting on the agricultural sector, which was also attended by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, home minster Amit Shah, ...
Agricultural sector to grow by 3%, push India’s economy amid Corona crisisedit
Amid substantial disruption in economic activities due to nationwide lockdown, the Centre on Wednesday said the agriculture sector was expected to rise to the occasion and play an important role in giving normal growth to India’s economy with the help of almost uninterrupted farm operations on the ground in many states. “The farm sector will grow by 3% this year despite adverse conditions and it would add at least 0.5% to India’s GDP growth in 2020-21, said Ramesh Chand, Niti Aayog member, while noting better prospect of the sector due to forecast of normal monsoon and adequate water storage in reservoirs across the country.
Govt plans major agricultural reforms post-coronavirusedit
Outlining an ambitious post-pandemic agenda for agricultural reform, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked his top ministers and bureaucrats to start working on a new set of reforms to cut down on archaic regulations, raise farm-gate prices, unify domestic markets as well as integrate the farm economy into global value chains.
These have been demands by key farmer groups as well as a range of economists and agricultural experts over the years.
The PM suggested these reforms at a high level review meeting on the agricultural sector, which was also attended by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, home minster Amit Shah, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar and senior officials. The meeting was in a series of reviews ...