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Agriculture Industry
Farmers to Get Incentives for Sowing Water Saving Crops Instead of Paddy; Register Before July 15edit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Under the Crop Diversification Scheme, the Haryana government said on Friday that it will provide incentives to farmers this year to cultivate water-saving crops instead of paddy. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal has approved the implementation of ‘Mera Pani Meri Virasat Yojana’ as part of the crop diversification scheme for Kharif-2021. Mr JP Dalal, who was presiding over a meeting of Agriculture Department officers, State Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, stated that instead of paddy, farmers should be encouraged to cultivate alternative crops that use less water.
Introduction to Basis Risk Management in Agricultural Commoditiesedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Agriculture producers and agribusinesses are often confronted by business-related decisions like what price to expect, which crop to be planted, given the known input costs and expected harvest time prices, or should one store the crop and sell later, etc. Agribusinesses must also have to determine price expectations to know what forward price to offer. Commodity futures exchange markets facilitate the mechanism for price discovery on an aggregate level through arbitrage between multiple buyers and sellers.
Dams and Indian Agriculture
Agriculture Minister defends Telangana’s move to construct new barrageedit
The Indian Express – Online
Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy said that the Telangana government had every right to construct a new barrage across the Krishna river near Alampur, as the State has not been able to fully utilise the water allocated to the Jurala project. The new barrage was proposed as per the Bachawat Tribunal award. Speaking to the media here on Saturday, Niranjan Reddy said that while allocating 17.84 tmcft water to the Jurala project, the Bachawat Tribunal had made a provision that if the 17.84 tmcft could not be utilised through the project, the allocated water could be used at any other place in Palamuru.
Technology in Agriculture
Farmer participatory agricultural technology models will be preparededit
Hindustan – Online
Under the able guidance of Professor US Gautam, Vice Chancellor of Banda Agricultural and Technological University, Banda, impressive changes are being made in the Krishi Vigyan Kendra to bring the agricultural technology to the ground in the field of farmers and farmers. Simultaneously, various types of projects like NICRA, Scheduled Caste Sub Plan, Organic Farming, Micro Irrigation, Damu, Seed Hub and Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana are getting tremendous force in the agricultural development of the farmers.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Dry spell in Haryana worries paddy growersedit
Hindustan Times – Online
As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the rainfall in state remained 5.7mm against the normal 12.8mm between June 17 and 23. The dry spell has led to extra burden on groundwater as the farmers are pumping out more groundwater to keep the crop alive in lack of rains and with the maximum day temperature being around 40°C. In more worry to the farmers, the Meteorological Centre, Chandigarh has predicted no rain in most districts of Haryana in the next three days and scattered showers in some places on July 1.