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Farmers taking up alternate crops extensively across Telangana: Niranjan Reddyedit
Telangana Today – Online
Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said farmers were convinced with State Government’s intentions to avoid paddy cultivation in Yasangi and were taking up alternate crops extensively across the State. Despite repeated pleas by State Government last year, many farmers did not take up cotton cultivation. As a result, they failed to reap good profits, he said. The Centre had announced minimum price of Rs.5,726 and a maximum of Rs.6,025 per quintal of cotton. But in the open markets, the price varied from Rs.8,000 to Rs.12,000 per quintal, he pointed out, adding “That’s the reason, farmers are being urged to take up cotton cultivation extensively,” Apart from cotton, red gram cultivation would also generate good profits ...
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar urges more farmers to join FPOsedit
Zee Business – Online
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Thursday launched a logo for a scheme that promotes setting up of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), and said more farmers should be part of such organisations. In February 2020, the union government launched a new central scheme “Formation and Promotion of 10,000 FPOs” under which FPOs are formed and promoted with participation of farmers, including small and marginal farmers, who get various facilities. “FPO is not merely a company, it is a collective for the benefit of farmers. From seed to market, the aim is to make farmers prosper,” Tomar said while addressing the National Conference of Cluster Based Business Organisations (CBBOs) under the FPOs scheme. “More and ...
West Bengal aims to double exports of agriculture & allied products by 2030edit
Business Standard – Online
West Bengal is aiming to double exports of agricultural, horticultural and animal-based produce by 2030, and has introduced several enabling policies to fructify the objective, a top state government official said on Thursday. The government has identified export clusters across the state to ensure focused processing and higher production, he said. There is a huge potential of doubling exports. We need to channelise opportunities and make it happen. The state has done exceedingly well in the agriculture and allied sector, including fisheries, horticulture, food processing and animal resource. A lot of enabling policies have also been brought out by the government, Chief Secretary H K Dwivedi said at the Bengal Global Business Summit here. Dwivedi ...
Harvest Machine
कटाई और मड़ाई में कम्बाइन, हारवेस्टर पर रोक नहीं:देवरिया डीएम बोले- किसानों के फसल की कटाई एवं मड़ाई के कामों में असुविधा न होedit
Dainik Bhaskar – Online
देवरिया जिलाधिकारी जितेन्द्र प्रताप सिंह ने बताया कि वर्तमान में गेहूं के सीजन में कटाई और मड़ाई में कम्बाइन हारवेस्टर, रीपर, रीपर कम्बाईन्डर, स्ट्रा रीपर एवं चैफ कटर आदि कृषि यंत्रों के प्रयोग पर शासन द्वारा किसी प्रकार का कोई रोक नहीं है। शासन का प्रयास है कि किसानों के फसल की कटाई एवं मड़ाई के कार्यों में किसी प्रकार की असुविधा न हो। अधीनस्थों को निर्देशित करते हुए उन्होंने कहा कि कटाई और मड़ाई के दौरान इन उपकरणों के प्रयोग करने पर किसी भी तरह की बाधा न उत्पन्न की जाए। यदि कोई कर्मचारी इस संबंध में विपरीत कार्य करेगा तो उसके विरुद्ध नियम संगत कार्रवाई की जाएगी। उन्होंने कहा कि भूसे का चारे ...
Stubble Burning
Stubble Burning: Decomposer to be sprayed on 5 lakh acres of land in Haryanaedit
The Statesman – Online
Haryana chief secretary Sanjeev Kaushal on Thursday said this year Pusa bio-decomposer, which is expected to help decompose stubble left behind after paddy is harvested, will be sprayed on five lakh acres of land to destroy stubble in the fields. Presiding over a meeting organized on Air Quality Management Control today, Kaushal said effective steps will be taken to control pollution so that people’s lives are not affected. He said 17 Dust Control and Management Cells have been established in the National Capital Region to control the dust on the road and in open areas. The chief secretary said on one lakh acres of land, agriculture department and on four lakh acres of land, UPL ...
Wheat stubble burning cases up three times from last yearedit
The Indian Express – Online
Punjab has recorded 152 cases of wheat stubble burning so far in April with Moga and Patiala reporting the highest such incidents at 20 each. This number for the state is three times more than last year, and 11 times more than 2020 for the corresponding period between April 1-20. Out of the state’s 23 districts, just one — Fatehgarh Sahib – has not reported a single fire incident case this season. As per the data sourced from the Punjab Pollution Control Board, which records fire incidents through Punjab Remote Sensing Centre (PRSC), Ludhiana, total 152 fire incidents were reported, including 56 on a single day (April 20). Last year during this 20 day ...