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Contributing about 15% to India’s GDP, the agricultural sector sustains almost half the population of the country. Interestingly, more than 265 Mn people in India are engaged in farming, which also makes it one of the largest employers in the country. More than 70% of rural India is employed in this space, running their daily expenses with income generated through agriculture.

The Hindu

This engineer-turned-farmer has ensured technological convergence in farming after developing an online platform for consumers to place orders for vegetables and fruits so that the required quantum could be sourced from farmers and delivered at their doorsteps.

Chetan Dabake, 30, an active member of Bidar Horticultural Farmers Producers Company Limited, has developed www.raithanamitra.in. “Consumers can place their orders with a minimum purchase of ₹100. The orders are in the four categories – vegetables, leafy vegetables, fruits, and ripen-yourself-mangoes under which consumers can buy green mangoes and ripen them at their homes through traditional methods,” he says. “The door-delivery system on behalf of the FPO began on April 14 in Bidar and we are about to extend it ...

Hi India

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Sunday took an elaborate review on crop cultivation pattern in the state and identification of alternative crops to make farmers go in for a regulatory cultivation, ensuring Minimum Support Price for the agriculture produce and other related issues. The agriculture experts present at the meeting gave several suggestions to the government on measures to be taken to make agriculture profitable in the state.

The Hindu Business Line

A PIB press statement said that Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers Ltd (RCF) has registered a hike of 35.47 per cent in the sale of fertilisers under the brand name ‘Suphala’ in April as compared to the similar period of 2019. This is despite logistics and labour challenges,

Suphala provides nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, which are essential nutrients to the soil. It is is one of the well-known products of the PSU, which produces many critical industrial chemicals and fertilisers.

The Chairman and Managing Director of RCF, S C Mudgerikar, in a tweet, said that during the ongoing pandemic, the company has ensured continuous supply of fertilisers to the farmers with the help of agriculture department ...

Krishi Jagran

For containment of the SARS CoV-2 virus, the Indian government declared a three-week nation-wide lockdown till mid-April, which was extended further to achieve satisfactory results. To address the difficulties faced by most vulnerable sections of the society amid lockdown, the finance minister came out with an economic package worth INR 1.7 trillion. ICAR issued guidelines for harvesting and threshing of various rabi crops, while RBI granted a three-month moratorium on repayment of farm loans. But despite these measures, the farmers have to face various difficulties during this pandemic period.

Times Of India

Experts from agriculture, agri-business and related fields have firmly suggested to chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao that farmers should cultivate only those crops suggested by the government and those not following government directions must not be given Rs 10,000 per acre per annum Rythu Bandhu sop and their agriculture produce should not be procured by paying minimum support price.

Tribune India

Covid-19 and the resulting lockdown are among the biggest challenges that the modern world is facing. Covid-19 has attacked the very core of our present society, and has thrown light on many problems the states will face going forward. One must not forget that Covid-19 may pass, but global warming simply will not. Now is the time we need to rethink how we approach the agricultural sector and the Indian economy.

Telangana Today

Agriculture experts suggested to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to implement a government regulated system of farming in the State for transforming subsistence farming to profitable agriculture.

The Chief Minister held a detailed review with experts here at Pragathi Bhavan on Sunday, on issues such as present system of farming in the State, identification of alternative cropping systems, regulated farming by ryots and ensuring commensurate prices for the commodities.

The experts suggested that government must guide the farmers on the type of crop to be taken up, thereby restricting them from sowing the same crop in large tracts, that might create a glut in the market.