Tribune India

In order to ensure environment remains clean and pollution free by controlling stubble burning, the custom hiring centres being sponsored by the state agriculture department are playing a pivotal role in offering high-tech machinery to farmers for the management of crop residue.

Tribune India

Combine harvester owners and the district administration are at loggerheads over the installation of super straw management system.

While the administration has announced that no combine harvester would be allowed to run without the system, the combine owners have threatened stalling the harvesting process by handing over the keys of the machines to the Deputy Commissioner in protest.

ANI News

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to kickstart a 3-day ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ with a vow to fight the ‘black farm laws’ and save the farmers from the clutches of big corporates. Singh pledged not to back out of the fight against the ‘black farm laws’ till they are amended to give a written Constitutional guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) and continuation of the Food Corporation of India (FCI). “The verbal assurances of the BJP-led government could not be trusted. We will not back out of the fight against the black farm laws till they are amended to give a written Constitutional guarantee on MSP and continuation of FCI,” Singh said.

The Week

The Jute Commissioner’s Office is waiting for the West Bengal governments assessment on raw jute production in the state this year to devise its future strategy against the alleged shortage of the golden fibre for mills, industry sources said on Sunday. A meeting of the expert committee chaired by the jute commissioner was held recently to take stock of the shortage situation and it found a wide gap between production estimates of government and private agencies, they said. This led the Jute Commissioner’s Office to urge the West Bengal government to complete its survey on the production of the fibre as soon as possible. “West Bengal government officials said that the work is already under way and ...

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Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday accused the opposition Congress of misleading the farmers on new agriculture laws and claimed that the reforms were in the larger interest of the farm community. He assured the farmers that the MSP regime will continue and not go away as claimed by the Congress.

The Congress remained in power at the Centre as well as the state on different occasions between 1966 (when Haryana was carved as a separate state) to 2014. Why did it not bring any Act to give a legal guarantee to MSP? the chief minister asked. The Congress is misleading the farmers for its vested interests, he alleged.