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Telangana secures top position, registers double growth in Agricultureedit
Telangana Today – Online
Telangana secured the top position among all States by registering double growth in Agriculture in a period of five years. As a result, the Net State Value Added (NSVA) by economic activity from agriculture witnessed a cent per cent rise during 2017-2021. According to the latest RBI report “Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy 2020-2021”, the NSVA by economic activity from Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing increased from Rs 95,098 crore in 2017-2018 to a whopping Rs 1.81 lakh crore in 2020-2021. Paddy production increased from 62 lakh tonnes in 2017 to 1.23 crore tonnes in 2021. Total food grain production (including pulses) was 1.5 crore tonnes in 2021 as against 94 lakh tonnes in ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Late monsoon pushes kharif area sown up by 1%edit
Hindustan Times – Online
A late surge in the monsoon has pushed up total kharif or summer-sown area by 1% compared to the normal level, which is a five-year average, data from the farm ministry on Friday showed. Farmers have brought large tracts under paddy, the season’s main staple, whose sowing had been lagging. Cultivators have planted a range of kharif crops — which account for nearly half of India’s annual food supply — in 109.7 million hectare overall, compared to a normal area of 108.4 million hectare. In 2021-22, the total summer acreage was 111 million hectare. At 40.1 million hectares, the area under rice is now 1% above the normal area of 39 million hectares, but 5% ...
Stubble Burning
Stubble management: Book suggests continuous hand-holding of farmers can yield desired resultsedit
The Indian Express – Online
When it comes to stubble management, it’s the same old story – be it government in the past or the current regime. Every dispensation has struggled with this burning issue. Every government in Punjab has/had been doing its bit, including distribution of thousands of machines, to keep a check on crop residue burning during the paddy harvesting season, but the results leave/left a lot to be desired. To sort this problem out to an extent, a book – ‘Rice Residue Management’ – based on field studies published in 2019 may come in handy for the government as well as farmers. The field experiments done for the book were conducted in six villages of the ...