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Agriculture Industry
News18 Exclusive | Modi@8: Govt Powering Farmers Towards Golden Agri Sector, Writes Union Minister Narendra Tomaredit
News18 – Online
Under the leadership of our popular and visionary Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the results of all-round efforts made by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare in the last eight years are being reflected in the society. Many innovative steps have been taken by the ministry in the form of initiatives, schemes and programs that are playing a major role in improving the conditions of farmers. The standard of living of farmers is getting better and agricultural assistance from Delhi is reaching them directly through bank accounts with complete transparency. The income of farmers has increased, their thinking towards accepting agriculture as a business has got a new direction. All schemes, programs and activities ...
AgroStar: Updating farmers on best practicesedit
Financial Express – Online
More than 80% of the about 14 crore families in India which depend on agriculture for their sustenance have a landholding of less than five acres, while more than half of India’s cultivable land is irrigated by monsoon rains. Smallholder farmers often face challenges in accessing information on weather and agronomic practices to be followed and other agricultural inputs. AgroStar, a Pune-based digital farmer network and agri-inputs platform, was launched in 2013 to bridge this deficit. The company has three verticals – an app which provides farmers with agricultural and agronomic inputs and information on weather; retail outlets through which farmers get inputs on seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, etc; and an export division that’s into fruits ...
Coffee With HT: Agriculture key to achieving trillion-dollar economy goal, says Suresh Khannaedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Uttar Pradesh finance minister Suresh Kumar Khanna has said increasing agriculture growth in the state was one of the keys to Uttar Pradesh becoming a trillion-dollar economy by 2027. He also said the Yogi government was making all possible efforts to accelerate the agriculture growth on the one hand and enhancing income of farmers on the other. “For UP to achieve the target of becoming a one trillion-dollar economy, it is very essential that the agriculture growth in the state goes up to 20% from the current 15%,” he said while speaking in the “Coffee with HT” programme here. The other sectors where the growth rate needed to be increased were manufacturing and service, he ...
Govt. Policies
DBT scheme dampens sale of certified paddy seedsedit
The New Indian Express – Online
The Odisha State Seeds Corporation (OSSC) is staring at a repeat of the Kharif 2016 when it sustained a huge loss of over `26 crore due to abysmally low demand from farmers for certified paddy seeds. The state-owned corporation have sold only 44,000 quintals of certified seeds so far as against 81,000 quintals sold during the same period last year. Attributing the low off-take of paddy seeds to the insistence of the government for its sale under the direct benefit transfer (DBT) scheme, farmers’ representative in the OSSC Board of Directors Ashok Baral said farmers are not keen to pay the full cost of the seed upfront to get the subsidy later as ...
Kerala initiates campaign for agriculture credit guarantee scheme as it falls behind utilising fundedit
Mathrubhumi English – Online
When the credit guarantee scheme formulated by the Union government for the basic facilities in the agricultural sector completed one and a half years of its operations, only Rs 47 crore has been dispensed in Kerala under the programme. Rs 2,520 crore was set aside for Kerala till 2025- 26. Within this, the state has obtained approval to distribute Rs 82 crore via 87 programmes. It has been found that the lack of campaigns to inform the farmers about the loan availing programme has resulted in a shortage of applications. In view of this, the state government has decided to initiate campaigns for the programme. The scheme assures a loan of up to Rs 2 ...
Paddy in India
Need warehouse for organic paddy and seeds storage: Panagudi farmers to Tamil Nadu governmentedit
The New Indian Express – Online
Organic farmers of Panagudi petitioned the State government and Agriculture department on Sunday requesting them to construct a separate warehouse and a separate procurement centre for their paddy harvest in the district. An organic farmer S Maheswaran said, the farmers in Panagudi are involved in organic paddy cultivation for over 10 years. “However, there is no warehouse or godown to store our paddy harvest. Because of this, many sacks of seeds, especially during the rainy season, get damaged every year as there is no space available to dry the seeds,” he further said. Similarly, the organic cultivation seeds should be processed traditionally, Maheswaran said, adding that if such processes are carried out in ...
124 tonnes of low quality paddy seeds seizededit
The Times of India – Online
Special teams tasked with monitoring sale of paddy seeds have banned a few private trading agencies from selling 124 tonnes of paddy seeds worth 62.34 lakh. 240 samples have been sent to the paddy research centre to check their quality and action would be taken based on the result, agriculture minister M R K Panneerselvam said. The teams have inspected 83 government extension centres and 189 private agencies in delta districts – Cuddalore, Thanjavur, Nagapattinam, Mayiladuthurai, Tiruvarur, Trichy and Ariyalur districts. Trade licence, register of stock, purchasing register, quality of seeds and its germination capacity were cross-checked during the inspection. For queries, farmers from Thanjavur and Pudukottai can contact officials on 9360999666, Tiruvarur, ...