Counterview – Online

On March 28, 2021, Dr Ramesh Chand, Member (Agriculture) of the Niti Aayog, said that if the Agriculture Acts are not implemented soon, the target of doubling the income of farmers by 2022 would not be achieved. He said that the government was ready to discuss these laws with the farmers section by section. Farmer leaders should consider this offer. He said that the solution to this problem could be found only by giving and receiving something and if the farmers persisted on their demands then it would be difficult to find a way forward. He also said that the government has made a good alternative for the farmers not to implement these laws for a ...

Dainik Jagran English – Online

A news was doing rounds on all social media platforms and several news portals that a farmer name Amresh Singh from Bihar has grown the world’s costliest vegetable, Hop Shoots. However, now it seems the information is untrue as no such farm was found during the ground level investigation done by Dainik Jagran. According to a report in Dainik Jagran, the crop that cost Rs 8500 to 1 lakh per kg was nowhere to be seen when the team reached the farmer’s farm to investigate.

Techstory – Online

India being an agrarian economy, still faces a lot of issues within the agriculture sector. The farmers are at the mercy of weather and most of the time do not have access to the latest tool. Most of time they have to conduct their agricultural practices with in sufficient resources. All this leads to a lower productivity in this sector. This has refrained the Indian agriculture sector from growing to its full potential.

This could now be solved with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to a report from Nasscom – Ernst & Young titled ‘Leveraging AI to maximize India’s agriculture output’, AI is expected to be a very useful tool in order to promote growth ...

Economic Times – Online

The Government of India in its Economic Survey in 2018 noted that the agricultural sector is undergoing feminization, a term used to indicate how increasingly a large number of women are taking up roles as entrepreneurs, cultivators and labourers. Presently, the agriculture sector employs 80% of all economically active women in India, which includes 48% of the self-employed farmers and 33% of the agriculture labour force. In the past decade, many global economies have also acknowledged the decisive role women play in ensuring food security and preserving local agro-biodiversity.