Krishi Jagran – Online

Strawberry is a temperate crop. That is why you find strawberries mostly in the hill stations of India. However, nowadays, strawberries seem to be available almost everywhere in India. It seems to have become an indigenous fruit, which actually it is not.

India is enjoying an astounding success of strawberry cultivation lately.  The recent Mann Ki Baat by Honorable Prime Ministers Narendra Modi features a lot of talk about the commendable cultivation of strawberries in various parts of India. These are places that are actually not suitable for strawberry cultivation and you may have hardly seen strawberry crops here. But, today, you can find successful strawberry farming in these places.

Cross Town News – Online

Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha today called for replicating the success stories of innovative and progressive farmers from across the country in Jammu and Kashmir through transmission of ideas and knowledge sharing for transforming agriculture & allied sectors, and for realizing the goal of doubling farmers’ income.

He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of a 2-day long Innovative Farmers Conference on “Farmer Led Innovations for Enhancing Farm Income” here at SKUAST Jammu organized to harness first-hand experiences of innovative farmers.

Business Standard – Online

Some farmers in Haryana destroyed their wheat crop in protest against the Centre’s new agriculture laws, prompting political and farmer leaders to appeal to them not to resort to such drastic measures.

Some farmers in the state’s Karnal, Jind and Ambala districts had destroyed wheat crops over two to four acres of their land.

 In Karnal’s Mundigarhi village, a farmer destroyed his wheat crop on four acres on Tuesday. The farmer told reporters that he did it in protest against the new farm laws. Another farmer at Manakpur village, around 3 km from Ambala City, flattened his wheat crop over one acre.

Live Mint – Online

For farmers in Punjab, profits from agriculture have become limited and unpredictable over the years. Large-scale farmers try to resolve this by investing in other businesses. But a study shows these investments haven’t worked as they don’t generate the income farming does.

The study, by Shreya Sinha of University of Cambridge, UK, is based on a 2014-15 survey of 93 agricultural households across four villages in Ludhiana district of Punjab. Of these, 32 were large farmer households who have tried to diversify their income sources.

Free Press Journal – Online

As India aims to boost its exports, the government is looking at manufacturing containers in a big way while developing a shipping line under the Atmanirbhar Bharat programme. Containers are required to ship goods. At present, India is solely dependent on the public sector Shipping Corporation of India.

While the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has already set up a committee to study the feasibility of manufacturing containers at Bhavnagar in Gujarat, sources said that other such hubs are also being looked at.

Until now, most exporters have been relying primarily on Chinese containers. But with geopolitical contours changing rapidly, shortage of containers has hit exporters, who have had bear the additional ...