Financial Express – Online

From a trading company MSTC, under the ministry of steel, has transformed itself into an e-commerce company over the years. The Centre expects it to play a major role in the government’s drive to monetise assets. While the company has already created a deep footprint in e-auctioning agri commodities, it is moving ahead to recycle end of life vehicles in an ecofriendly manner. Chairman and managing director, MSTC, Surinder Kumar Gupta speaks to Indronil Roychowdhury about the company’s current focus and its days ahead.

Free Press Journal – Online

Paddy in kharif season and wheat in rabi season are still the preferred produce in highest percentage of agricultural households across rural India, the National Statistical Office (NSO) reported in its 77th round of survey. For the Kharif season, 53.2 per cent rural agriculture households grew paddy, followed by maize (11.3 per cent); bajra (8.3 per cent); cotton (7.2 per cent) and soyabean (six per cent) of the households. The remaining crops such as jowar, ragi, arhar (tur), urad, moong, sugarcane, potato, groundnut and coconut were all each 4.1 per cent or less, said the survey conducted during January 1 to December 31, 2019.

Republic World – Online

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on his visit to Jammu and Kashmir spoke on several factors concerning the agriculture sector in the Union Territory. Tomar who has been in J&K along with his two deputies, Kailash Choudhary and Shobha Karandlaje on Friday visited the “Sher-e-Kashmir” University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu and later laid the foundation stone of Gene Bank and Cold Storage facility at Mega Seed. Speaking on the matter, he emphasized the need for development in the agricultural sector of Jammu and Kashmir. He further also informed that the central government has been making efforts towards agriculture in India as it has already transferred Rs 1,58,000 crores to the bank ...