Hindustan Times – Online

Even as the prices of wheat in the open market have gone beyond the minimum support price (MSP) offered by the government, wheat growers who are associated with the arhtiyas of the agriculture produce marketing committees are unlikely to get any benefit from it. As per the private wheat traders of Haryana, the prices of wheat in the open market have now increased to around ₹2,200 per quintal against the government MSP of ₹2,015. They said more than 90% farmers are associated with the mandis and sell their produce through arhtiyas and the private traders do not buy wheat from mandis of Haryana. The arrival of wheat will start in the mandis only after the ...

Moneycontrol – Online

India’s export of agricultural products have touched $40.87 billion in the first 10 months of the current fiscal and it is 25.14 percent more than the financial year, Union Minister of State for Commerce Anupriya Singh Patel said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Patel said exports of some other major agricultural products like wheat, sugar and cotton have registered a substantial increase during the current year. “During the period between April 2021 to January 2022 of the current financial year, exports of agricultural products have amounted to $40.87 billion compared to $32.66 billion over the corresponding period of previous year, registering an increase of 25.14,” she said during Question Hour. Patel said of the products for ...

Krishi Jagran – Online

The State Government has developed a programme for climate-resilient natural farming through women’s self-help groups, which is a major step towards a climate change action plan (WSHGs). In a virtual meeting on Wednesday, the Andhra Pradesh departments of Scheduled Tribe, Scheduled Caste and Minorities Development, Mission Shakti, and RYSS signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to this effect. Chief Secretary Suresh Chandra Mahapatra, who presided over the meeting, directed concerned departments to achieve “field level convergence” for the program’s successful implementation. “Natural farming will gain popular acceptance among the people, more particularly in tribal-dominated districts of Odisha, as the method is quite compatible with traditional patterns,” he said, emphasizing the inevitability of natural farming for ...

Krishi Jagran – Online

Amai Mahalinga Naika, a septuagenarian farmer of Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada, was one of those who got the Padma Shri from President Ramnath Kovind on Monday at a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Naika received the award for his four-year standout performance in digging seven 30-meter-long tunnels to provide water to his barren two-acre plot of land. President Ram Nath Kovind also presented Abdul Khader Nadakattin of Dharwad, Karnataka, with the Padma Shri Award for his contributions to agriculture. He is recognized for over 40 ideas that helped small and marginal farmers of India. “I am an ordinary farmer,” said Padma Shri awardee Abdul Khader Nadakattin, “yet the Indian government has rewarded me with ...