Business Standard – Online

Indian farmers have planted wheat on 15.3 million hectares since Oct. 1, when the current sowing season began, up nearly 11% from a year ago, the government data showed on Friday, as record high prices have encouraged planting. Farmers have also increased acreage under rapeseed, the key winter-sown oilseed, to 7.1 million hectares as of Nov. 25, up from last year’s 6.2 million hectares, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare said in its weekly update of sowing data.

Siasat.com – Online

Telangana Agriculture minister S Niranjan Reddy and Transport minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar opened three warehouses with a combined capacity of 20,000 metric tonnes that were constructed on five acres of land for Rs 14.90 crores at Jinkalagudem of Raghunathapalem Mandal in the district on Friday. According to Agriculture minister S Niranjan Reddy, Telangana has had a consistent rise in agricultural production while Congress and BJP-ruled states have seen a decline. “A huge boost in agricultural productivity has resulted from chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s pro-farmer policies.”

The Print – Online

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said his state is working towards bringing 65 lakh hectares of land under irrigation from the present 45 lakh hectares. Speaking at the inauguration of annual Agro Vision exhibition in Maharashtra’s Nagpur, Chouhan pointed out that Madhya Pradesh has grown in the agriculture sector not only with conventional farming, but by also adopting modern techniques. Chouhan said that when he became the chief minister only 7.5 lakh hectares of land in Madhya Pradesh had been under irrigation. “Today, 45 lakh hectares of land in the state is irrigated and by 2026, we will bring 65 lakh hectare under irrigation,” the Madhya Pradesh chief minister said. Chouhan ...

The Indian Express – Online

At a pre-launch celebration of the International Year of Millets 2023 organised by the Ministries of Agriculture and External Affairs on Thursday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar named “Covid, conflict, and climate” as the world’s main food security challenges, and placed the cultivation and popularisation of millets in the context of the wider imperative of “de-risking the global economy”. The event was attended by about a hundred foreign diplomats based in New Delhi. The word millets is used to describe small-grained cereals like sorghum (jowar), pearl millet (bajra), foxtail millet (kangni/ Italian millet), little millet (kutki), kodo millet, finger millet (ragi/ mandua), proso millet (cheena/ common millet), barnyard millet (sawa/ sanwa/ jhangora), and brown ...

Krishi Jagat – Online

The Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Mr. Narendra Singh Tomar has said the International Year of Millets (IYOM) – 2023 will provide an opportunity to increase global production, efficient processing and better use of crop rotation and promote millets as a major component of the food basket. Mr. Tomar said that on the initiative of Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi, the United Nations has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millet (IYOM). “Through this, our aim is to increase the domestic and global consumption of Millets,” said Mr. Tomar, addressing the High Commissioners/Ambassadors based in Delhi during the Luncheon hosted jointly by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and Ministry ...