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Agriculture Industry
Telangana emerged as major paddy producer in India: Puvvadaedit
Telengana Today – Online
Telangana State has emerged as a major food grains supplier in the country, noted Transport Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar. The State has produced an unprecedented quantity of three crore tonnes of paddy this year, he said speaking after inaugurating a Rythu Vedika and Vaikuntadhamam at Vallabhi village in Mudigonda mandal in the district on Monday. Ajay Kumar along with Zilla Parishad Chairman, Lingala Kamalraj inaugurated Rythu Vedikas at Mudigonda, Chirumarri and Pammi villages in Madhira Assembly constituency. The minister said that aiming to unite the farmers, Rythu Vedikas were built in all clusters in the district. The Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao has been introducing innovative programmes to increase the State’s wealth and to spend ...
Farmers continue siege of toll plazas, Reliance fuel stations in Punjabedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Farmers under the banner of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) and Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta-Ugrahan) continued the siege of toll plaza and Reliance filling stations in Punjab, particularly Sangrur and Barnala districts, to oppose the corporate houses over the three agriculture laws. The protests are being organised simultaneously when the farmer unions have been holding indefinite protests at the Delhi borders to oppose the farm laws. In Barnala, the protesters staged dharnas at the Badbar toll plaza on the Bathinda-Chandigarh national highway and Mehal Kalan village on the Barnala-Ludhiana road since October 1.
Technology in Agriculture
Farm Mechanization in Jammu divisionedit
Daily Excelsior – Online
The art of transforming a desired seed into a plant with the help of different natural and artificial resourcesto meet the food requirements or to make a livelihood is seen as farming. Jammu division is blessed with different types of zones whether it be subtropical (Jammu and Samba), intermediate (parts of Reasi and Ramban) or temperate (Kishtwar and Poonch). Prosperous agriculture has mainly three requirements i.e. a fertile soil, enough sunlight and abundant supply of water. The agriculture in Jammu division is supported by all three in the form of alluvial soil to mountainous soil, a hot summer and a humid monsoon. The water requirement of the division is supplied and met by the different ...
Govt. Policies
Telangana Government Waives Crop Loans Upto Rs 50,000edit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Crop loan debts up to Rs 50,000 were waived by the Telangana government, benefiting nearly six lakh farmers across the state. Farmers will receive the funds between August 15 and August 31. As part of the implementation of the second phase of Rs 1 lakh crop loan waiver scheme, the State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao gave its approval to this initiative. Crop debts up to Rs 25,000 were waived off in the first phase last year. Crop debts up to Rs 75,000 will be canceled in the third phase in 2022, and up to Rs 1 lakh in 2023. The Chief Minister vowed to waive crop loans up to Rs ...
No proposal under consideration to waive loans of farmers: MoS Finance Bhagwat Karadedit
Business Today – Online
The government on Monday said there is no proposal under consideration to waive loans of farmers, including Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe farmers. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad said the Centre has not implemented any farm loan waiver scheme since ‘Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme (ADWDRS), 2008’. “There is no proposal under consideration of the Government of India to waive off the loans of farmers including Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes farmers in the country,” the minister said.
To get rid of the problem of stubble burning, the center has given 76,626 machines to Punjabedit
News18 Hindi – Online
The Central Government has given 76,626 machines to Punjab in the last three years to stop the growing problem of stubble burning. In Punjab, while 50,847 machines were given to custom hiring centres, 25,779 machines were given to individual farmers for the management of crop residues with the aim of preventing air pollution. On the other hand, the Punjab government has also informed that a massive campaign has been started to provide 25000 farming machines and farming equipment to the farmers at a subsidy of Rs 250 crore during the current year to make the state free from stubble burning.
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Extreme weather linked to climate crisis shrivels farmsedit
The Hindustan Times – Online
Extreme weather events, widely held to be the impact of the climate crisis, have shriveled farms in some regions, as widespread flooding in states such as Maharashtra and a drought in the North-East, especially in Assam, could trim yields, analysts said. Changing climate patterns in India are a reality now, according to climatologists, and are also taking a toll on agriculture, which supports nearly half of all Indians. Overall, the monsoon, the rain-bearing system that waters nearly 60% of the country’s net-sown area, is forecast to be normal or average, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). However, this is a forecast for a four-month average (June-September), and rainfall has been geographically and “temporally” ...