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Agriculture Industry
RSS affiliate wants MSP guarantee for farmers, says will push for it in new govt paneledit
The Print – Online
The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) wants guaranteed minimum support price (MSP) or remunerative prices for farmers and a ban on the use of unregulated chemical pesticides, said a senior functionary of the RSS affiliate. BKS organisational secretary Dinesh Kulkarni said the body has a representative in the MSP committee set up earlier this week, and “will put forward our suggestions” before the panel. “Our demand is to get a mechanism to ensure that the farmers get a remunerative price and a guarantee [on MSP],” he added. Speaking to ThePrint, the BKS said it wants a mechanism in place that will ensure the farmers get government facilities and incentives. The BKS, which had reservations about the ...
All eyes on the President’s management of food shocksedit
The Statesman – Online
The Philippines, despite being blessed with vast agricultural lands, has increasingly relied on the importation of key commodities to augment the supply of food products in previous years. Under the Duterte administration, the Department of Agriculture (DA) sourced agricultural goods from abroad to feed the entire country. In the first half of 2022 alone, the agency authorized the importation of meat, fish and sugar to cover supply shortfalls and keep local prices in check. This food importation policy was widely criticized by various agriculture groups, who not only claimed that farmers and fishers incurred billions of pesos in losses, but said the policy also eroded their productivity. The sector’s growth has remained stunted over the ...
Government Didn’t Give Any Assurance to Protesting Farmers on MSP Law: Tomaredit
Krishi Jagran – Online
On Tuesday, Parliament was informed that the Centre has not kept its commitment to establish a committee to offer a formal guarantee on the minimum support price (MSP) as made to the body representing farmer unions, Samyukta Kisan Morcha. Last year, thousands of farmers protested in force under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) against three agricultural laws. The protests were put to an end after the government agreed to repeal the legislation and gave them a written promise that it would establish a committee to look into the issue of how to guarantee MSPs for a range of agricultural commodities. The three farm laws were repealed in November of last year, and Prime ...
Dairy Farming
Dairy Farming: हर महीने लाखों का मुनाफा कमा सकते हैं किसान, सब्सिडी पर यूं खोलें डेयरी फार्मedit
Aaj Tak – Online
ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में डेयरी फार्मिंग के व्यवसाय को बढ़ावा देने और इसमें स्वारोजगार के अवसर पैदा करने के लिए पशुपालन, डेयरी और मत्स्य पालन विभाग के द्वारा साल 2005-06 में नाबार्ड के अंतर्गत “डेयरी और पोल्ट्री के लिए उद्यम पूंजी योजना” नामक एक पायलट योजना शुरू की गई थी. बाद में साल 2010 में इसका नाम ‘डेयरी उद्यमिता विकास योजना’ कर दिया गया था. DairyFarming: ग्रामीणों के लिए पशुपालन आय का सबसे तगड़ा विकल्प उभर कर सामने आया है. कम लागत में ज्यादा मुनाफा होने की वजह से किसानों के बीच डेयरी का व्यवसाय बेहद तेजी से लोकप्रिय बी हो रहा है. सरकार डेयरी उद्यमिता विकास योजना को दे रही है बढ़ावा हाल के कुछ ...
Govt. Policies
Kerala farmers furious over state government’s new power subsidy proposaledit
The New Indian Express – Online
Kerala farmers are pushing back the state government’s efforts to make agriculture power subsidy a troublesome procedure. In the East Eleri grama panchayat of Kasaragod, hundreds of farmers refused to play along with the government’s new rules to form charitable societies to avail of agriculture power subsidy. “Under the cover of direct benefit transfer, the government is trying to snatch away power subsidies by making the procedure complicated,” said Chandran Nair, a farmer. On Tuesday, Nair along with hundreds of farmers protested and walked out of a meeting called by the panchayat’s agriculture officer S Uma to explain the new requirements to avail of the power subsidy. “Instead of easing the lives of ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Monsoon showers break dry spell, make farmers smileedit
Times of India – Online
After a long dry spell, Varanasi witnessed monsoon showers on Wednesday afternoon bringing the muchh needed respite from sweltering heat. The district recorded 67 mm rainfall in last 24 hours. The rains also brought smiles on the faces of farmers waiting for sowing the paddy crop. The farmers in rural areas were seen engaged in sowing paddy in their fields after the rain. Meanwhile, the Ganga continued to rise at the rate of 40mm per hour in Varanasi. According to the flood bulletin of the Middle Ganga Division-3 of the Central Water Commission, the river was showing a rising trend right from Mirzapur to Ballia. While in Varanasi, the river recorded a rise at ...
Poor rain, lower yield price hit groundnut sowing in Gujaratedit
The Financial Express – Online
Groundnut cultivation in Gujarat is likely to decline as progressive monsoon sowing for the state’s main kharif crop is almost 0.2 million hectare (MH) less in the current season so far as compared to the previous year’s 1.77 MH during the corresponding period. Latest data released by the state agriculture department indicates three factors – late beginning of monsoon season in Saurashtra and north Gujarat regions, low-crop yields and higher price of cotton which are making farmers move from groundnut to other cash crops. In many parts of Saurashtra and north Gujarat regions, farmers started sowing cotton, replacing groundnut, even before the first shower of monsoon, said an official of the agriculture department. “Compared ...
Paddy in India
Fall in paddy acreage likely in Haryana due to uneven rainsedit
Hindustan Times – Online
A fall in the acreage under paddy is likely in Haryana this year. Thanks to the poor rains during the sowing season. Since Haryana is one of the major contributors of rice to the central pool, the development may trigger alarm bells about the decline of rice output from the state as Haryana had witnessed nearly 50 percent decline in wheat output last rabi season. While the transplantation is almost over in most of the paddy sowing parts of the state, the area under paddy cultivation has so far reached around 10 lakh hectares, which is around 23 percent less than 13 lakh hectares of the previous year. Officials claimed that final figures are yet ...