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Agriculture Industry
India’s changing agricultural landscape and its way to inclusive growthedit
The Economic Times – Online
India being predominantly an agrarian economy, agriculture sector contributes a big chunk of the share to gross domestic product (GDP) and employment. Thus it’s a key factor for the lifeline of our Indian population and economy’s overall productivity. The agriculture sector has experienced buoyant growth in the past two years. The sector, which is the largest employer of workforce, accounted for a sizeable 18.8 per cent (2021- 22) in Gross Value Added (GVA) of the country registering a growth of 3.6 per cent in 2020-21 and 3.9 per cent in 2021-22. Growth in allied sectors including livestock, dairying and fisheries has been the major drivers of overall growth in the sector.
Opening the door to commercial fodder productionedit
Krishi Jagat – Online
The paired challenges of population growth and climate change have put smallholder farmers in Zambia in a squeeze. In the Southern Province, the center of agricultural production for the nation, smallholder dairy farmers struggle to increase their production of fodder to commercially viable levels in the face of a long dry season that climate change is intensifying. Smallholder farmers looking to support their families, enhance the local food supply, and sustain economic growth in their areas are at a distinct disadvantage because agriculture in Zambia is dominated by massive commercial operations with plentiful capital, large tracts of land, and expensive machinery, with most of their output marked for export.
New Research from The University of East Anglia Shows That Indian Women in Agriculture Lack Skills Training Opportunitiesedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Young rural women in India are increasingly working in agriculture, but new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and RV University Bengaluru shows they’re the least likely to gain training to upgrade their skills or work in a different sector. Given the absence of decent jobs, more young people – particularly women – are staying in or returning to farming and agricultural livelihoods, at least part-time, to secure their futures. Despite 54.6 percent of Indian workers engaged in agriculture, of which 20.26% are women, skill training is targeted primarily at those leaving agriculture and seeking to engage with industry or services. Most skilling opportunities in agriculture are either informal learning by doing, or ...
Govt. Policies
PM Kisan, World’s Largest Individual Beneficiary Scheme for Landholding Farmersedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has a direct connection with the general public. He connects with people directly and understands their needs as well. When he became Chief Minister of Gujarat, he noticed that farmers were losing their crops and having issues like low productivity, and lack of support and guidance from the administration, particularly in abnormal events or adverse weather conditions. Krishi Mahotsav approach was introduced in the year 2004, to meet and guide farmers at their doorstep. He introduced the Soil Health Card – a soil test of each farmer’s land to understand what his soil is lacking in terms of nutrients and what it is capable of producing. This led to sustainable ...
Telangana nudging farmers to shift to oil palm: Minister KT Rama Raoedit
Telangana Today – Online
Telangana Government is asking the farmers to move away from paddy cultivation and opt for oil palm and oil seed cultivation. This will help in reducing the import dependence for edible oils and also protect the farmers from the glut in the paddy production. Over the next five years, effort will be to convert 20 lakh acre paddy systemically towards oil palm with support and guidance from the Government, said IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao. Speaking at the global roundtable organised by the Indian Vegetable Oil Producers Association, he said the State has worked meticulously on the Kaleshwaram project and this has added over 40 lakh acre command area (the extent of the ...
Stubble Burning
Give free tools to farmers to prevent stubble burning: NHRCedit
The Print – Online
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday held a third round of meeting through video conferencing with the Chief Secretaries of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and asked them to give a detailed report on how to prevent air pollution in the Delhi-NCR region. The meeting was held with Chief Secretaries of four states through video conferencing under the chairmanship of NHRC Chairman Justice Arun Kumar Mishra regarding air pollution as the national capital and the NCR region continues to be covered with a heavy blanket of smog.
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COP27: India Expresses Concerns Over Developed Nations’ Attempt to Augment Mitigation to Agricultureedit
Krishi Jagran – Online
According to sources, in the UN climate summit currently taking place in Egypt, India has argued that wealthy nations do not want to reduce emissions by changing their lifestyles and are instead “searching for cheaper solutions abroad” while opposing the efforts by the developed world to broaden the scope of mitigation to agriculture. “The developed nations want to use diversionary tactics to lessen their obligations resulting from historical emissions at every climate summit in order to move the goalposts of the global climate regime. The world owes Annex-I nations a carbon debt of 790 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (GtCO2), or USD 79 trillion, even at the low price of USD 100 per tonne,” India said ...