Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
Farmers need a reliable shield against risksedit
The Tribune – Online
THough the contribution of agriculture to the national GDP (gross domestic product) has gone down from 50 per cent to 16 per cent, India’s economy continues to be agrarian because agriculture employs around 60 per cent of our population. In the near future, agriculture will continue to be the main sector to provide livelihood to our population. Therefore, agriculture needs modernisation and investment to curb post-harvest losses and make it competitive at the international level. This can be achieved by framing a viable and dynamic agricultural policy. This policy will determine what to produce, where to produce and how much to produce. Animals are an integral part of our farming system. Depending on the agro-ecology of ...
Opinion: India’s #FarmersProtests and Nigeria’s #EndSars show what happens when governments fear Twitteredit
Washington Post – Online
Rihanna may not have released new music in years, but her recent tweet on the ongoing farmers protests in India was music to the ears of human rights supporters around the globe.
Last week, the pop star and beauty mogul tweeted a CNN article about the Indian government shutting down the Internet in protest sites near the capital. She asked, “Why aren’t we talking about this?!” and used the hashtag #FarmersProtest, which has been the rallying cry for what started as a protest by Indian farmers against agriculture reform bills and has become one of the largest protests for economic and human rights in the world. Instead of simply ignoring ...
Green revolution and a harvest of canceredit
The Pioneer – Online
The current farmer agitation is a major event in contemporary India and it would be inappropriate to ignore it. This agitation is being analysed from many angles and a debate is underway on the government’s new agricultural policy and the farm laws. But, nobody reached the roots of the agitation. Behind the extreme discontent, agitations and suicides of Indian farmers, there is a five decade-old black chapter in the history of agriculture which is discussed only with a macroscopic viewpoint. Neither the central government nor the Punjab government nor the Punjab farmers made it an issue. This dark chapter of Indian agriculture is the so-called Green Revolution which originated in the mid-1960s and our governments and ...
Budget
Budget 2021 has a warped view of India’s agri-economyedit
The Free Press Journal – Online
In this article we will focus only on animal husbandry. The reason for focusing on this sector – especially on dairy farming – is because it is a big employer and sustains millions of families. The entire animal husbandry sector contributes immensely to nutrition and empowers the most marginal of farmers and landless labourers. Milk alone accounts for around 100 million producers, most marginal, with no land.
In this article we will focus only on animal husbandry. The reason for focusing on this sector – especially on dairy farming – is because it is a big employer and sustains millions of families. The entire animal husbandry sector contributes immensely to nutrition and empowers ...
Dairy Farming
‘Cow factories’ way forward for promoting dairy farming: Girirajedit
The Pioneer – Online
Union Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries Giriraj Singh on Sunday said that starting “cow factories” was the way ahead for promoting the dairy industry across India, even as he chided Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for not being able to distinguish between a male and female calf.
Speaking at a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party State executive committee members in Panaji, Singh also said that the Central Government was aggressively promoting vaccination for animal and poultry borne diseases like bird flu and foot and mouth disease.
“There is a technology which has come up, with which one can start a cow factory. When I say this people are surprised. Like you have test tube ...
India marching ahead in Dairy farmingedit
United News of India – Online
India has taken over US and is now the Number one Nation in the world in the field of Animal husbandry and dairy farming and Production, according to Dr. Ashok Dalwai, CEO National Rainfed Area Authority, Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. Speaking at An Interactive Session on Doubling of Farmers’ Income at the Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University, Gadag on Saturday, Dr. Dalwai said that the United States of America was the number one Country in the World so far in Animal Husbandry, Dairy Farming and Production, But India has not only overtook America, but now producing twice the Amount of Dairy products comparing to what the USA was ...
Govt. Policies
Govt allocates ₹16,000 crore for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana for 2021-22edit
Live Mint – Online
Union government has allocated ₹16,000 crores for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) for the fiscal year 2021-22 to boost the safety of farmers’ crops and to ensure that maximum benefit of crop insurance reaches farmers.
“This is a budgetary increase of around ₹305 crore as against the previous fiscal year 2020-21, which reiterates the government’s commitment towards the growth of agriculture sector in the country,” the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare said in a press statement.