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Budget
In PM Modi’s Council Of Ministers Meet, Budget 2022, Agricultural Sector Reforms Discussededit
Republic World – Online
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired a meeting with his Council of Ministers where a key deliberation was held on the Budget 2022, sources revealed. Republic TV has accessed exclusive details of the PM’s council of ministers meeting where the budget to fulfil all remaining promises before the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections was discussed, with a special focus on the Agriculture sector. During the meeting, PM Modi emphasized that the work for India’s century of Independence in 2047 should begin now, sources reported. Whosoever hoists the flag from the red fort in 2047, every Indian should feel proud of the journey, he asserted. PM Modi also spoke about how President Ram Nath Kovind’s address ...
Dams and Indian Agriculture
Radhanagari gate malfunction causes damage to farm motorsedit
Times of India – Online
A sudden increase in the water level of the Bhogavati river — due to the Radhanagari dam service gate malfunction on Wednesday — has allegedly damaged agricultural motors causing losses to the farmers. The Radhanagari Dharan Bachao Kruti Samiti has demanded a high-level inquiry against the irrigation department. The samiti stating that the gate malfunction is a serious issue and was caused due to the negligence of the private contractor employed to carry out technical repair works of the service gate, that too in absence of irrigation department officials. Sakharam Jadhav, a farmer from Gudalwadi village said, “There was a panic situation on Wednesday morning due to several rumours of dam burst and floods ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Over a million paddy bags damaged in the open in Odisha due to rain, hailstormedit
DownToEarth – Online
More than a million bags of paddy lying in the open in market yards in Odisha’s Bargarh district have reportedly got damaged due to heavy rain and hailstorm, which also caused extensive damage to vegetable crops in the district. The rain started from the evening of December 28, 2021 with a spate of hailstorm in between, and continued throughout December 29. The India Metereological Department had forecast heavy rain for three days till December 30, not only in Bargarh but also other districts like Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Sundargarh, Deogarh, Angul, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj. Bargarh, often called the ‘rice bowl’ of Odisha, tops in paddy procurement in the state. Around 1.1 million bags of paddy are lying in ...
Stubble Burning
India takes new steps to give up old habits of burning farm wasteedit
Mint – Online
Sanju is on a mission. For weeks, she has traveled from village to village, urging farmers in India to stop burning stubble from harvested rice crops near New Delhi, the country’s capital. As winds slow during the winter months, a poisonous haze collects over northern India. During the worst stretches, the region’s air pollution can reach multiple times the global safety threshold. Stubble burning is one of the leading causes of the smog. Sanju, 24, who goes by one name, is among several hundred gig workers in the state of Haryana — all of them women — trying to reverse that trend. She encourages farmers to spray a white substance on their fields to decompose crop ...