LiveMint – Online

The farmer protests near Delhi have brought renewed attention to the agricultural practices of northern India, groundwater use in particular. A new study finds that states where groundwater reserves are at critical levels, such as Punjab, form the major source of cereals for around 76% of India’s population. This puts the country’s food supply in a vulnerable position.

The New Times – Online

Both India and Africa face common issues like degradation to cropland and environment, deteriorating farm economics and a pressure to feed a growing (and young) population, this presents an opportunity to collaborate and share experiences.  It is particularly imperative to focus on farmers who own small-units of land, since such smallholder farmers comprise over 70% of cropland in both Africa and Asia.

In this context, a low-cost sustainable agriculture method from India that can help Africa’s farmers is Community-Managed Natural Farming or CMNF (formerly Zero Budget Natural Farming).

India CSR – Online

VEDANTA Agriculture Resource Centre (ARC), operated by Bharat Aluminum Company (BALCO), is benefitting over a thousand farmers with access to modern farming methods, better technologies and quality resources.

The Centre, run in collaboration with NABARD at village Bela in Korba, aims to make farming more remunerative through increased production and productivity. In the current scenario, agriculture, the backbone of India’s economy is in a state of distress due to the pandemic of COVID-19, BALCO is helping farmers in the region sustain their livelihood, train in modern farming methods, get raw material support and market linkage and leverage government schemes for better returns through ARC.

LiveMint – Online

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on Monday said that it has no plans of entering contract or corporate farming and it has not purchased any agricultural land in India for the purpose of contract farming, the company said in a regulatory filing.

Reliance said it “has nothing whatsoever to do with the three farm laws currently debated in the country, and in no way benefits from them.”

 “Reliance Retail Limited (RRL), Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL), or any other affiliate of our parent company, i.e., Reliance Industries Limited have not done any “corporate” or “contract” farming in the past, and have absolutely no plans to enter this business,” the conglomerate said.

The Federal – Online

Over the past few decades, the manufacturing and services sectors have increasingly contributed to the economic growth, while the agriculture sector’s contribution has decreased from more than 50 per cent of the GDP in the 1950s to 15 per cent in 2019.

The agricultural growth has been fairly volatile over the past decade, ranging from 5.8% in 2005-06 to 0.4% in 2009-10 and 0.2% in 2014-15. Such a variance in the agricultural growth has an impact on farm incomes as well as farmers’ ability to take credit for investing in their landholdings

Krishi Jagran – Online

We are generally a venture company and we invest in the various Agri sector related company and right now we have 26 agritech company to whom we are investing. This investment in agritech company is helping farmers to grow. We don’t deal with farmers directly but yes, we help agritech company and by this network it helps farmers to grow and help them to become Atma nirbhar.

The Tribune – Online

A farmer’s average monthly income in Haryana is among the highest in the country, both according to the Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households (2013) and NABARD All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (2016-17). Still, at Rs 18,496 per month, this income is less than the salary a newly appointed Group D employee — peon, maali, safai karamchari — gets in the state.

Farmers’ income was never so much in focus as it has been during PM Narendra Modi’s rule — first because of his promise to double it by 2022 and now, because of the unrest over the three laws enacted by the NDA government.

Financial Times – Online

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India’s largest company said it was the victim of a campaign of vandalism against its businesses after more than 1,500 telecom towers were damaged amid protests by farmers against New Delhi’s agricultural reforms. Mukesh Ambani and his telecom-to-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries have become the focus of anger from the thousands of protesters engaged in a months-long ...