Aspirant World

Agricultural Mechanization is one of the key drivers for sustainable development of the agriculture sector.

It helps in: Increasing land productivity by facilitating timeliness and quality of cultivation

Reducing the cost of operating by ensuring better management of costly inputs

Inventiva

Prime Minister Modi has propelled financing ease of Rs 1 trillion under the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund for agri-entrepreneurs, agri-tech players, startups, and farmer groups for post-harvest administration and feeding farm assets on this weekend.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also issued the sixth installment of Rs 17,100 crore to more than 85.5 million farmer-beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) plan.

BLOC

When Covid-19 hit India, the country’s economy was already under stress and on a weak footing, said Arvind Panagariya, Professor of Economics, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. “However, I think the government has handled it pretty well with its focus on ensuring that people had the basic necessities sorted — food and shelter. A big stimulus, contrary to some views, could never have given a supply response. The government was also correct in announcing measures to create a guaranteed fund and ensure cash flows,” he added, while addressing the Post-Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management students in the public policy talk series hosted by IIMB.

Economic Times

The concept of biomobility in India has evolved to the stage where it will soon be implemented in day to day life. The central government’s wholehearted support and conducive policies have opened doors for the production of fuel from bio-waste.

Following is the first in the series of articles that will comment upon the impact of biomobility on various facets of the society and economy.

Indian Express

Farmers in Maharashtra have been forced to take up fresh kharif sowing after seeds supplied to them failed to germinate, but their access to crop loan from banks remains low. As against the target of Rs 45,785 crore, crop loan disbursed till the first week of August to 30 lakh farmers for the kharif season was Rs 22,770 crore, or only 50 per cent has been disbursed.

“The financial condition across the rural belt is worrying. Farmers are worst affected as they don’t have cash. The fall in farm produce prices in last four months has wrecked their lives,” said Shetkari Sanghatana president Anil Ghanwat.

Hindu Post

Bharat has set an ambitious target of doubling the farmers’ income and also simultaneously have a target of US$ 60 Billion agri-export by the year 2022. The value of processed food exports during 2018-19 was of the order of US$ 35.30 Billion accounting for about 10.69 percent of Bharat’s total exports.

The exports of the food products have shown a rising trend since 2014-15.  The organic food segment in Bharat is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10 per cent during 2015-25 and is estimated to reach Rs 75,000 crore (US$ 10.73 billion) by 2025 from Rs 2,700 crore (US$ 386.32 million) in 2015.

News 18

TDP National President and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said that YS Jaganmohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh should stop implementing its lopsided policies as they were crippling agriculture, irrigation, industry and all sectors of the State economy.

Naidu appealed to the people to think carefully whether they would like to have ‘true development’ brought by the previous Telugu Desam Party regime or ‘true destruction’ being caused by the present government.

Addressing a press conferences to create awareness against the state’s 3 Capital Plan, Naidu said that the ruling party leaders had only focused on Amaravati demolition and suppression of different sections of people in the past 15 months. Consequently, all the developmental projects ...