Times of India – Online

Governor and Chancellor Kalraj Mishra on Monday called for a change in the pattern of agricultural education, in accordance with the modern times. He said for this, it is necessary to develop such a management mechanism under which the youth should be eager to do agriculture related works, enterprises and farming activities instead of thinking of entering state services. Mishra was speaking at the online convocation of the Agriculture University, Jodhpur.

Governor Mishra asked the agencies/bodies concerned to prepare the content of the subjects in Hindi and in local languages while delivering his address at the convocation. He encouraged students to go for startups in the agri-based businesses. While addressing as chief guest, chief minister ...

The New Indian Express – Online

Agriculture then does not hold the young and the educated back. It does not hold back the young and uneducated as well. The menfolk who see not much of a future in agricultural jobs with splintered land holdings don’t want to till the land. They would rather work as drivers and helpers in the big city nearby. The young woman has left for a city job. Agriculture is therefore left to the older womenfolk in the house for now. The feminisation of agriculture is thus becoming a reality in India, as is the ageing profile of the Indian farmer. The young have fled, or want to flee, in search of greener pastures, greener than their ...

The Print – Online

In the mid-1960s, we didn’t get food grains even when we were ready to pay in international markets. We used to get wheat from the USA under a scheme named PL-40. India used to pay in rupees, but the price of grains and deposition was determined by the USA.

In the 1960s, the short-duration dwarf wheat seed was introduced in India and distributed across the country. But the research was strong at state agricultural universities in Punjab, Haryana and IARI, Delhi. So we improvised it, and our yield and quality increased according to our conditions. We even turned it into amber colour from the original red one. As yield ...

The Times of India – Online

Two of India’s richest men have landed in an unlikely controversy over farming laws, becoming targets of protesters who allege the tycoons have benefited from their close links to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For weeks, tens of thousands of farmers have camped outside the nation’s capital, demanding the withdrawal of recently passed legislation they say, without evidence, was designed to allow billionaires such as Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani to enter farming. The tycoons say they have no such interest. More than 1,500 phone towers of Ambani’s wireless carrier were vandalized last month and some farmers called for a boycott of their businesses. The fight between the government and the farmers has revived the ...

The Senital – Online

The team upon their visit to villages of these regions found immense potential of horticulture and livestock rearing apart from mainstream agriculture. The traditional practice of pig rearing by the Dimasa community, a characteristic of this community has been a significant support to the families. ManuharKharikapsa, a local of the Dimahading village of Umrangso, is one such example who has been immensely profited by pig rearing. Also, he has very skillfully begun the plantation of areca nut and seasonal vegetables. The Nepali community in villages such as New Tunbung and Govindapur has over the years reared cattle as traditional component of their households. There is an immense potential of developing a dairy cooperative by the villagers. ...