The Hans India – Online

Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said that the government has established 1,000 Agro Rythu Seva Kendras (ARSKs) across the State of Telangana to provide quality fertilisers, seeds, agriculture machinery under one roof to the farmers. Speaking after inaugurating the Telangana State Agro Industries Development Corporation Limited (TSAIDCL) new office at Red Hills here on Tuesday, he said, that the TS Agros has registered a turnover of Rs 123 crore during the financial years 2019-20 introducing several innovative programmes. And, the ARSKs will help to provide the services to farmers at their doorstep.

Deccan Chronicle – Online

Taking advantage of Covid-19 pandemic, big traders and middlemen are looting farmers in paddy procurement in connivance with a few primary agriculture cooperative societies (PACS), rice millers and transport operators.

Impact of the second wave of Covid-19 and unseasonal rains created troubles to farmers in selling their produce. Paddy bags were piled up either at primary agricultural societies or on rice mills premises as no authorities came forward to complete the procurement process. Allegedly, a few revenue and civil supplies officials ignored the plight of farmers and supported errant transport operators, rice millers and societies chairmen.

Horti – Daily – Online

Gurugram-based agritech startup Eekifoods on Monday announced it has raised pre-Series A funding from GSF Accelerator. Other investors in this round include Naho Shigeta, founder, and chief executive officer, Infobridge Holdings; Shalin Sanjay Shah, director, Core91 VC; and a Gulf-based Syndicate. Existing Eekifoods investors; Sumit Jain, country head, BirdEye; and Dipesh Palodalso participated in the round. The startup said the funds will primarily be used for further technology development, scaling operations, and team building.

“Eekifoods is borne out of two years of research and development of a unique technology, which focuses on inculcating agricultural techniques that are both sustainable and economically viable. Today, we are able to grow tomatoes, bottle gourd, eggplant, cucumber, and other vegetables ...

Daily Excesior – Online

Dr. Banarsi Lal, Dr. Pawan Sharma Public-private partnership (PPP or 3P) is said to be a long-term cooperative agreement between two or more public and private sectors. Through this agreement, skills and assets of each other (public and private) are shared in delivering a service or a facility for the use of general public. In order to make more development such kinds of initiatives are essential. Such arrangements are used by the Governments in late 20th century and early 21st century across the globe. Hundreds of different types of long-term contracts with a wide range of risk allocations, funding arrangements and transparency requirements are covered under the public-private partnerships. This concept is closely associated with concepts ...

Moneycontrol – Online

When India was hit by the first wave of COVID-19 from January to June 2020, agriculture turned out to be a bright spot. The Economic Survey estimated that India’s GVA for the entire economy will contract by 7.2 percent in 2020-21, primarily due to a steep decline in the first half of the FY.

In this mayhem caused by the nationwide lockdown, agriculture was the only bright spot and it is estimated that the GVA for agriculture clocked a positive growth of 3.4 percent at constant (2011-12) prices.

 Can the agriculture sector be a saviour again when the second wave of COVID-19 has hit India with much more intensity than the first wave? This time, it seems ...