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Agriculture Industry
Onion growers, politicians shed tears over export banedit
While NCP President Sharad Pawar, a former Union Agriculture Minister, rushed to meet Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal, farmers in Lasalgaon dumped onions on the roads and blocked the Mumbai-Agra Highway near the town.
The Agrarian Crisis in Kashmiredit
Agriculture has been the backbone of our economy throughout our history and still is. A cursory look at the data will reveal its importance. Although the sector contributes less than 18 percent of Gross State Domestic Product, it employs more than 70 percent of the population directly and indirectly. Moreover, more than 72 percent of our population lives in rural areas and this speaks itself of their association with agriculture.
Top Potato Varieties: Sow these 5 varieties of potatoes, you will get better yieldedit
Farmers start preparing sowing of Rabi Crops in September-October. This time is considered very good for potato sowing. Potatoes are cultivated at different times in different parts of our country. Therefore, while cultivating potatoes, farmers should sow the developed varieties of potatoes according to their region. Today we will tell you about the top 5 disease-resistant varieties of potatoes developed in this article. Which will provide you with good production as well as good income, so let’s know about them in detail …
Kufri KanchanThis variety of potato has been developed for the hills of North Bengal and Sikkim. With this variety, farmers get from 250 to 300 quintals per hectare.
Kufri GirdhariThis variety of potato has been developed for the ...
Maharashtra’s farmers hit out at Centre’s onion export banedit
Onion farmers across Maharashtra protested on Tuesday over the Narendra Modi government’s decision to ban export of the bulb.
Sharp condemnations were issued by major farmer outfits like Raju Shetti’s Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana, the All-India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), and the Sadabhau Khot-led Rayat Kranti Sanghatana, all of whom ascribed political motives behind the Centre’s move.
In the onion-producing hub of Nashik, protests erupted in Lasalgaon — which houses Asia’s largest onion market — as well as in Manmad, with irate farmers raising slogans against the Central government while demanding an immediate rollback of the export ban.
The Kharif 2020 Crop May Tell Us Whether the Centre’s Agri-Market Reform is Workingedit
In just about two weeks, the Kharif produce will start arriving in the markets.
This will be the first season after the promulgation of the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance 2020, which introduced the concept of ‘trade areas’, outside the physical jurisdiction of APMCs.
Transactions in a trade area are exempted from the market fee, levies and other charges applicable in the APMCs.
Punjab and Haryana have been in turmoil since the promulgation of the ordinance as the farmers fear that the entire system of procurement at minimum support price (MSP) may be on the block. October and November 2020 will therefore be a testing ground for state governments, APMCs, corporate buyers of agricultural produce ...
Punjab farmers continue siege of 3 key bridges, block highways against agri ordinancesedit
Hundreds of farmers under the banner of the Kisan Sangharsh Committee continued to block three major bridges on the Beas river in the Majha region for the second consecutive day on Tuesday against the central government’s three agriculture ordinances.
Due to the blockade of the Harike bridge connecting Majha and Malwa, the Beas bridge on the Amritsar-Delhi highway and the Hargobindpur bridge in Gurdaspur, thousands of commuters were hassled. Long lines of stranded trucks and other vehicles was seen on both sides of the bridges.
An economic disaster foretoldedit
According to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation of the Government of India on August 31, 2020, real quarterly GDP contracted by a whopping 23.9% between April-June 2019 and April-June 2020. This magnitude of real GDP decline is unprecedented since the country started publishing quarterly GDP estimates in 1996. This is an economic disaster, no doubt. But is a bigger one in the offing?
Agri-ordinance are a step towards privatising the farming industry, MSP will go: Bhagwant Mannedit
Aam Aadmi Party Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Bhagwant Mann today slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for bringing anti-farmer laws like Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.
Stubble Burning
Delhi: Crores allocated, but winter smog from stubble burning likely this year tooedit
Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are peeved at being blamed for Delhi’s smog. “We have been burning crop residue for the past 50 years now,” said a leader of the Bharatiya Kisan Union from Haryana, who does not want to be named. “If anybody is affected it should be the surrounding villages. We don’t face any such problem. So why is this problem in Delhi seen just during these past few years?”