Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Farm protests may hit transport of essentials: Railwaysedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Railway authorities said 20 trains passing through Punjab will remain suspended between Thursday and Saturday because of the protest , as the state-owned transporter seeks to ensure the safety of passengers and protect its property. Many freight and parcel trains too have been rescheduled.
Top-Down Decision Making Will Not Help Improve Farmers’ Incomesedit
The Wire – Online
The decentralised phenomenon attached to small savings and small farmers needs to be seen as a strategic advantage and not a drawback.
PDS wheat ends up in open market; price falls 20 per centedit
The Tribune , The Indian Express – Online
With a surge in wheat delivery through the Public Distribution System (PDS) among the Smart Ration Cardholders during the lockdown, the prices of wheat, flour, maida and suji have fallen by more than 20 per cent in September in the area.
View: Modi government is heralding the path for farmers to be atmanirbharedit
The Economic Times – Online
Indian agriculture has for long suffered from apathy and policies rigged to benefit others at the cost of the farmer. Under successive Congress governments, ringing tributes were ritualistically paid to the industry of “kisan”, but the loudly declared intent to help farmers never translated into ground reality.
Technology in Agriculture
Kurien’s Amul model for contract farmingedit
The Tribune – Online
In Amul’s case, middlemen were effectively replaced by dairy producers through farmers’ cooperatives. These cooperatives were layered up to the state level, where today the huge dairy infrastructure is totally owned by the state and district-level cooperatives, with dairy producers owning them via membership. The corporates do not, in any way, own the huge Gujarat dairy federation.
Govt. Policies
Farm Bills Crucial, Will Bring “Revolutionary Changes”, Says Agriculture Ministeredit
NDTV – Online
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the PM Narendra Modi-led government has provided freedom to farmers through the Farm Bills.
Top-Down Decision Making Will Not Help Improve Farmers’ Incomesedit
The Wire – Online
The decentralised phenomenon attached to small savings and small farmers needs to be seen as a strategic advantage and not a drawback.
Article 370, CAA, Farm Bills: In Second Term, Modi Sarkar Is Using The Full Power Of Parliament To Push Reformsedit
Swarajya – Online
Yesterday, the monsoon session of the Parliament came to a close and both the Houses were adjourned sine die, eight days before the schedule because of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
Stubble Burning
Admin starts Sensitization drive to eliminate Stubble burningedit
Tribune Newsline – Online
In a bid to save the environment from the hazardous gases produced from stubble burning which may increase problems for COVID patients, the district administration has begun a drive to make the combine operators aware about the importance of Super SMS machines in wiping out stubble burning.
Combines sans straw management system bannededit
The Tribune – Online
District Magistrate (DM) Sandeep Hans, while exercising his powers under Section 144 of the CrPC and Sections 30 and 34 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, today imposed a ban on burning of paddy straw by farmers.