Tribune India – Online

With farmers agitating for over 100 days, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar today allocated an outlay of Rs 6,110 crore for agriculture and economic wellbeing of farmers in the Budget, an increase of 20.9 per cent from the revised estimate of last year.

This includes Rs 2,998 crore for agriculture and farmers welfare, Rs 489 crore for horticulture, Rs 1,225 for animal husbandry and dairying, Rs 125 crore for fisheries and Rs 1,274 crore for cooperation.

The Indian Wire – Online

For better or for worse, the game of sustainability has changed altogether. It can not just be achieved by restricting oneself to inflict less harm to the very soul of Nature, rather we need to focus more on doing good to the very environment we live in.

We have realized that lately and consequently, most of the countries are trying their best to discover ways to achieve the same. The pandemic may have shaken our systems to the very core and have woken us from the deep slumber.

Sustainability talks of the extension of environmental benefits to our future generations those may be deprived of its inherent benefits but here the onus is not just ...

The Indian Express

Green Gold, as bamboo is often known, is found everywhere in India. It is one of those rare, naturally-occurring resources agnostic to climatic conditions, soil conditions and precipitation levels available in 136 species. Millions of Indians rely on bamboo for a part of their entire livelihoods.

Despite this vast bamboo habitat in India, which is also the second-largest bamboo growing country in the world, the grass remains woefully under-utilised. The perception of bamboo as “poor man’s timber” and a law that had designated non-forest bamboo as a tree prevented it from making inroads into the consumer goods and lifestyle products segments where it otherwise holds tremendous scope.

Inventina – Online

Getting grocery from the market seems like a quick task. We have got so used to the supermarkets and grocery stores near our houses that we do not think about the larger aspect of their availability. If today we are capable of getting the fruits and vegetables and other edible stuff it is all a credit portion to the months of involved hard work. A farmer needs to undergo a vast process to manage the food to be delivered to us. The agriculture companies have been, for years unknown doing efforts to keep the supply of edible things constant to us. The process is a long one that needs involves tedious days of production of the crops, ...

The Print – Online

Indian women are left behind on farms to make ends meet as more men in India migrate from rural areas to cities, seeking higher incomes and better jobs.

Nearly 75% of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women, according to the international humanitarian group OXFAM. Female farmers produce 60% to 80% of the South Asian country’s food.

Common Dreams – Online

As natural disasters multiply across the world, the race to fix our broken climate is proclaimed far and wide. Climate change turns up on the agenda of most international fora. And for no small reason: weather and natural disasters directly related to the climate crisis caused USD $232 billion of economic losses across the world in 2019. Asia and Oceania alone accounted for nearly half of that total, with USD $107 billion in losses. But, as urgent as the situation is, some of the solutions to the climate crisis being promoted from above are misleading. Not only are they not putting us in the right track, they are also exacerbating an array of other problems ranging from poverty ...

Philippine information agency  – Online

Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Agricultural and Fisheries Engineering (DA-BAFE) Director Ariodear C. Rico recognizes the important role of women and the significant number of female agricultural and biosystems engineers who are leading the country towards the mechanization and modernization of the agriculture sector.

Women’s role in agriculture needs to be sustainable because “women together with men are of equal importance,” Dir. Rico said.

As part of the celebration of International Women’s Day 2021, DA-BAFE in collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) gathered key stakeholders in the agricultural sector in an online meeting held on March 9 to discuss timely topics surrounding women in agriculture.

Dubbed as “Creating equal opportunities for women ...

Eurasia review – Online

As the global population grows, the demand for food increases while arable land shrinks. A new University of Illinois study investigates how rice production in India can meet future needs by adapting to changing climate conditions and water availability.

“Rice is the primary crop in India, China, and other countries in Southeast Asia. Rice consumption is also growing in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world,” says Prasanta Kalita, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at U of I and lead author on the study.

“If you look at where they traditionally grow rice, it is countries that have plenty of water, or at least they used to. They have tropical weather with ...

Manila Bulletin – Online

The Philippines, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar, has a strong bilateral connection with Israel and India in the field of agriculture. This 2021, DA aims to achieve a 2.5 percent growth through the strategies that fall under its major components: consolidation, modernization, industrialization, and professionalization.

“Precision agriculture, digital agriculture, and resilient agriculture will always be the main innovation system that will trigger higher levels of productivity today and in the future. The DA will also amplify the climate change adaptation and mitigation measures that will help our farmers in the future,” Dar added. As part of this development, Dar emphasized the expansion of e-Kadiwa, a digital marketing application that links farm ...