The Indian Express – Online

Haryana has always been at the forefront of pioneering models of governance and implementing them. Our chief minister, Manohar Lal, has always stressed the importance of reaching every policy’s full benefit to the targeted beneficiary. Under his leadership, the state government has documented and digitised all farmer families through the Parivar Pehechan Patra, which ensures that the payment towards crop procurement directly reaches the state’s farmers. Doubling farmers income is the stated goal set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Our pioneering system of direct farmer payments is the very core of making his vision work at the ground level.

Krishi Jagran – Online

Prior to the annual Kharif Conference scheduled on April 30, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) have come together to promote bio-fortified cereals and pulses through the revamped National Food Security Mission (NFSM).

The agriculture ministry has planned to convert NFSM to NFNSM (National Food and Nutritional Security Mission). This move has come to address issues of food security and national security.

The Indian Express – Online

With the three new farm laws stuck, where is India’s agri sector headed? Agriculture economist Dr Sudha Narayan and Godrej Agrovet Ltd MD Balram Singh Yadav spoke to The Indian Express on a range of issues in the sector, including crop diversification and self reliance in edible oils. The conversation was moderated by The Indian Express Rural Affairs Editor Harish Damodaran.

Khaleej Times – Online

Agriculture is one of the oldest economic activities. Historians believe that wheat grew as wild grass in the fertile crescent of the Middle East before it was cultivated there in 9500 BC. Similarly other areas started to independently grow rice, banana and maize. Despite centuries of grueling human effort, we haven’t solved the problem of food.

 Our burgeoning population will not stop eating anytime soon. So, agriculture boasts of an endless supply of customers that even the likes of Facebook cannot have. Yet agriculture is far from lucrative. In the EU, farm income is less than half the average wage. An average farmer in India earns about US$1,000 annually despite the fact that India ranks #2 ...

FruitNet – Online

s Fresh Produce India turned its attention to India’s rapidly expanding ag-tech start-up sector Omnivore’s Subhadeep Sanyal spoke to the trends influencing the growth.

Sanyal, a partner of the venture capital firm, outlined how the young sector – which features around 1,000 start-ups, most under five years old – had been on the rise, a trajectory that had continued through the Covid-19 pandemic.

“If I give a reference of our journey as Omnivore in the last ten years, we have never seen this level of investment interest or investment activity,” said Sanyal.

“The uptake in investment in India began in 2018, but the last year has been phenomenal in terms of the speed with which companies have been ...