Business Standard – Online

With a focus on securing more investments and expertise from the private players in the agriculture sector, the government is keen to create a formal comprehensive framework for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the sector, a senior government official said. Speaking at an event organised by industry body Ficci on the issue, Agriculture Secretary Manoj Sinha said work on the framework is currently ongoing and private players are encouraged to share their inputs. Sinha said it was crucial to have a framework that enabled more private players to easily enter the sector for scaling up central initiatives such as the push to reduce losses in the value chain for farm commodities. “Several players are working ...

Hindustan Times – Online

The Punjab agriculture minister, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Thursday handed over a letter to Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar to impress upon the Union government to take the farmers of the state out of the debt trap, wheat-paddy cycle and promote crop diversification besides fruit and vegetable farming. He has demanded a financial package for curbing the trend of stubble burning, reducing the hardships of border area farmers and saving water in agriculture and using modern tools to protect against pest attacks. Apart from this, it has also been demanded to open the export of agricultural and horticultural products to the Middle East so as to expand the income of farmers of the state. ...

Krishi Jagran – Online

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) started a state-specific plan for doubling farmers’ income in 2016 and entrusted the KVKs to take up the challenge of achieving doubling farmers’ income. To carry out this mission, KVKs adopted villages and worked with a technology-centric approach to guide farmers in adopting innovative technological options and good agricultural practices. The impact of the program transformed the livelihood of hundreds of farmers and farm families in the jurisdiction of each KVK. As part of the Platinum Jubilee celebration of the country, ICAR documented the cases of 75000 successful farmers across the country keeping 2016-17 as the benchmark year and 2020-21 as the impact year to review the success of ...

The Indian Express – Online

Punjab Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal Friday said he has sought a financial package from the Centre to bail state farmers out of the debt trap, curb stubble burning and promote crop diversification. According to an official statement, Dhaliwal handed over a letter of demand to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar during a conference of agriculture and horticulture ministers in Bengaluru. “There is a requirement of financial package to take the farmers of the state out of the debt trap, wheat-paddy cycle, curbing stubble burning, modern tools and for promoting crop diversification, besides fruit and vegetable farming,” the statement said citing the letter. Dhaliwal also demanded a financial package for farmers living in ...