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Agriculture Industry
Rural revitalisation: The key enabling factor for the overall development of Indiaedit
The Times of India – Online
India is aspiring to be a US$5 trillion economy by 2025. Among the key enablers of India’s ascend are its demography and democracy. However, for India to sustain its progress, it should place inclusiveness at the heart of its policies and investments, and make sure that it has a win-win case for both urban and rural India. Taking along villages and facilitating rural India to contribute to nation-building is important, and ‘rural revitalization’ is the way forward. Rural revitalisation is about positively transforming rural areas for present and future generations and improving people’s quality of life and economic well-being. In the Indian context, it is about transforming agriculture & allied sectors, and ramping ...
Monsoon + Indian Agriculture
Crop losses due to unseasonal rain may keep food prices elevated: Reportedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Indian rice farmer Ibrahim Shaikh says he looked up at the sky daily and prayed for unseasonal rains to stop. His prayers unanswered, he says he started harvesting the wet crop earlier this week. “The crop was ready for harvesting 10 days back and twenty to thirty percent of the grains have been lost because of heavy rains. If I don’t harvest now, I won’t get anything,” Shaikh said, as he dried harvested paddy on a plastic sheet in Kadadhe village, 110 km (70 miles) east of Mumbai. The crop losses for Shaikh and farmers across the country mean that food prices, already at their highest in over two years, could stay elevated, instead of ...
Paddy in India
80% paddy procured at Ambala mandis: ACS agricultureedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Around 80% paddy crop has been procured from the grain markets in Ambala district, agriculture and farmers department welfare additional chief secretary Sumit Misra said on Thursday. “Crop is being lifted within 48 hours and 98% of it has been lifted from mandis in Ambala, against which ₹701 crore has been transferred into the accounts of farmers concerned. There is no overcrowding in markets and the process is going on smoothly. Moreover, there has been a drastic fall in farm fires in the state, the incidence of which has halved,” Misra said. Misra was in Ambala to meet farmers, commission agents at the district grain market. Later, she also met the officials concerned, and instructed ...
85% paddy area in Punjab yet to be cleared of stubble; late spike likelyedit
Hindustan Times – Online
Only 15.26% or 0.46 million hectares of the 3.028 million hectares of land on which paddy has been cultivated this year in Punjab was cleared till October 14, according to a satellite analysis by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), pointing to a coming spike in farm fires in the region, at the cost of Delhi’s air. The analysis shows that paddy on 0.36 million hectares has been harvested and the stubble managed (or cleared), and that farm stubble was burnt on only 92,624 hectares. Experts say delayed rains, that, in turn, delayed sowing, may mean later-than-normal harvests this year.
Stubble Burning
‘Stubble burning problem can’t be addressed unless farmers are taken into confidence, provided support’edit
ET EnergyWorld – Online
The Federation of All India Farmer Associations (FAIFA) a leading non-profit organisation representing the cause of millions of farmers and farm workers of commercial crops in India, has urged state governments to take farmers into confidence and support them with funds and equipment to effectively address the stubble burning problem. The season of farm fires in northern India has already begun and incidents of stubble burning are going to increase sharply in the coming weeks months of October and November. The decades old post-harvest practice of burning of paddy crop stubbles is a major contributor to air pollution in the region at this time of the year. Owing to heavy rainfall and low count of ...