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Agriculture Industry
Agriculture sector contributes 20.2 % to the GVA of Indian economyedit
The Statesman – Online
The contribution of the Agriculture sector has increased to 20.2 % to the gross value added (GVA) of the country’s Economy, revealed the recently released provisional estimate of Annual National Income. The data of the National Statistical Office (NSO) further revealed that the percentage of usually working persons engaged in the Agriculture Sector is 45.6 %, which means out of every hundred persons in India 45 are engaged directly or indirectly in the Agriculture Sector. The data was released in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by the NSO, said a senior officer of the Agriculture Ministry. He further said that the share of the Agriculture and Allied sector to total Gross Value added ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Impact of climate change in agriculture and its management strategiesedit
The Sangai Express – Online
Formulation of Alternative Policies for Energy subsidy and Water Saving: A direct cash subsidy for electricity or across all subsidized farming inputs, coupled with metering for electricity use can prove as an effective alternative in the economic context. 3. Water-Energy Saving Technological Choices: It depends on the physical and financial viability of technologies and practices that the farmer can pursue in each season and for each crop, with a view towards the diffusion and adoption of appropriate methods to save water and energy. Developing Agriculture Supply Chain: Farmers are able to improve their resilience to climate and financial shocks, they need better access to markets and technology that a well-designed agricultural supply chain could ...
Paddy in India
Urging farmers to switch from paddy an uphill task for officialsedit
Deccan Chronicle – Online
Agriculture officials are facing a tough time convincing the ayacut farmers near Nagarjunasagar Project’s left canal to cultivate crops other than paddy in yasangi. The farmers raising paddy under bore wells and tanks agreed to cultivate millets and horticulture crops. However, the farmers around the NSP’s left canal are preferring paddy cultivation over others. The farmers submitted various arguments before the agriculture officials, including that their land and the soil are not suitable for other crops. Farmers are also willing to sell their yasangi produce to private traders if the government does not open procurement centres. Farmer leader N. Satyanarayana said that all the farmers in an area should opt for alternate crops. “It is ...
Telangana: Disillusioned farmers stick to paddy sowingedit
The Hans India – Online
Despite the State government’s direction to farmers not to go in for paddy, farmers in Nizamabad and Kamareddy are gearing up for sowing paddy. Talking to The Hans India, farmers of Anksapur alleged that the government was only making statements but at ground level it had not even taken steps to supply seeds for alternate crops nor has it created awareness on what kind of crops would be suitable to be raised here. Farmers are insistent on cultivating paddy. “There is no alternative cultivation to paddy,” said Sokkam Santosh, a farmer. In Nizamabad district, paddy was cultivated in 3.87 lakh acres during kharif resulting in a yield of 7.87 lakh metric tonnes. The district ...
Paddy procurement issue: Telangana team returns empty-handededit
The New Indian Express – Online
In what has turned out to be a wild goose chase, the delegation of TRS ministers and MPs, who camped in Delhi for six days, returned home empty-handed, unable to extract any written commitment from the Centre on procuring the entire stock of Kharif rice produced in Telangana. Though Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal assured in Rajya Sabha that the entire stock of Kharif rice would be procured by the Centre, the TRS team stayed put in Delhi demanding a written assurance to this effect. The TRS delegation left for Delhi on December 18 and met Piyush Goyal, who wanted two days to give them clarity on the Kharif rice ...