Daily Excelsior

Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu today e -inaugurated four projects of Jammu and Kashmir Agro Industries Development Corporation and Horticulture Planning & Marketing department, in presence of Navin Kumar Choudhary, Principal Secretary, Agriculture and Horticulture Department. In Horticulture Planning & Marketing department, three projects were e-inaugurated: e- National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)  for Fruit &Vegetable Market Narwal, Jammu , Fruit & Vegetable Market, Bishnah and Apni Mandi Chadwal, Kathua .The e-NAM provides a hassle free and pan-India trade platform for the farmers and the traders.

Nenow

A streak of sunlight appears to have broken through the dark clouds hovering over Assam’s agricultural landscape.

At Garmur village near Bokakhat in Golaghat district three youths, professionals in different fields, have recently picked up the plough to furrow a path anew on the fields which they had left fallow a decade or so

The trio like thousands of other youths in Assam, disillusioned by the ‘backbreaking and unrewarding’ occupation of agriculture, deviated towards white collar jobs.

Among the three, Bikash Boruah’s disenchantment was even greater.

At a young age he had witnessed his father pass away, the family unable to pay his steep medical bills, despite him having been a farmer who had been awarded by the ...

Economic Times

With the robust rebounce in rural sentiments, the domestic tractor industry is expected to see a positive growth in the ongoing financial year 2020-2021 after remaining in negative territory in the last fiscal, a top senior official of Escorts said.

He further stated that relatively less impact of pandemic on the rural market has led to healthy farm income and the same has been witnessed in the spike in tractor sales.

Devdis Course

A rising number of Indian farmers are turning to solar-powered irrigation, which agricultural experts say can help communities feed their families and generate income while battling climate threats – all without producing more planet-warming emissions. As part of a project by the Transform Rural India foundation (TRI), a non-profit based in New Delhi, farmers in Tukutoli installed a solar system that pumps water from a small rivulet and provides reliable irrigation to about 30 acres (12 hectares).

Financial Express

The Centre has covered 45% of targeted 2.5 crore farmers under the ambit of Kisan Credit Card (KCC) in the last two and half months making them eligible for the concessional agriculture credit. As many as 1.12 crore KCCs have been sanctioned with credit limit of Rs 89,810 crore as on July 24, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted. She also said that only in July, 41.66 lakh KCCs have been approved with nearly Rs 27,000 crore credit limit till last Friday.

Announcing the AatmanirbharBharat package on May 14, Sitharaman had said that the government would cover 2.5 crore PM-Kisan beneficiaries, so far left out from the ambit of the KCC, under the official credit net through a ...

Kashmir Reader

Lieutenant Governor, Girish Chandra Murmu, Chancellor of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu visited the Main University campus at Chatha on Monday. He was accompanied by the First Lady Dr. Smita Murmu, inaugurated the new infrastructural blocks including building of Ujala PG Girls Hostel, Residential Quarters for Teaching staff and a Bed side Oxygen facility established at the University Health Centre in view of Covid-19 Pandemic. The First Lady went around the newly constructed Girls Hostel and inspected facilities therein, followed by planting of a sapling in the lawn of the PG Girls Hostel.

Financial Express

India has reported the best monsoon rainfall in the last six years which has also led to a better kharif acreage in this season. As of 24th July 2020, India has reported rainfalls at 6% higher than above the long period average (LPA) and has also reported 800 lakh hectors area coverage under kharif crops, which is nearly 75% of the total normal kharif sowing area for the season. This has been 18.5% higher than the previous financial year 2019-20, a CARE Ratings report said on Monday. “Till 24th July 2020, the Kharif acreage has been higher in all major crops when compared with the same period last year,” the report said. As the country continues to face the headwinds ...